I’m sure you have seen the news today that Lucasfilm will be moving the Star Wars comics license from Dark Horse, where it has been for 22 years, back to Marvel, where it began back in 1977. The shift happens in 2015: Dark Horse’s statement is here. Star Wars #1 at Marvel was the first “grown-up” comic book I ever read and aggressively collected, and Marvel gave me my start …
Happy New Year! If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen me talking about the Apollo’s Daughter‘s anthology, an add-on to the Athena’s Daughters Kickstarter. Athena’s Daughters: Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy is an anthology featuring short speculative fiction by top female authors, including Mary Robinette Kowal, Janine Spendlove, Sherwood Smith and Gail Z. Martin, among many others. The Kickstarter did so well that the anthologists, Silence …
Longtime readers of this website know that I maintain — or try to maintain — a notes page with trivia and production insights on every work I’ve written. That extends to all my comic books, prose, games, and non-fiction works. Some of the longer works have quite extensive ones — and now, at last, I can announce that the notes for Star Wars: Kenobi are now online. Click here to …
A special treat for Amazon Local users: my Overdraft: The Orion Offensive is one of 100 books that’s available for 99 cents through January 9 with a coupon available through your Amazon Local app. The voucher must be clicked on by December 19 in order to apply it to your account; thereafter, the discount will be automatically applied to purchases until Jan. 9, as I understand it. The list of …
Publication day for me, and I travel to a different sandbox — so to speak — with a desert tale of the Hyborian Age: my first Conan story, in Dark Horse’s Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword #6! “Sargasso of Sand” reteams me with Philip Tan, my artist on Iron Man #79–82, and it’s a fun story of mythical mystery as Conan encounters a sailing ship situated far in the desert, …
(This month’s guest post is from fellow 47North author Mark T. Barnes of the fantasy Echoes of Empire series. Read on, Star Wars fans!) Star Wars and the Inspiration of the Classic Hero By Mark T. Barnes I remember sitting in a cold, cavernous cinema with one of my aunts and one of my brothers when the first refrains of John Williams’s score for A New Hope thundered out across …
It’s been incredibly busy this past month: I had Star Wars Reads Day followed by New York Comic Con followed by a great signing at Powers Comics in Green Bay, followed by my appearance at the big Star Wars event at the Kanawha Public Library in Charleston, W. Va. Whew! Last weekend was the first time I saw my house — but I’m off again this weekend, to my first …
Scene from Star Wars Reads Day About to return to New York for the first time in several years, but there’s just enough time to share my schedule for Comic Con: I’ll be signing at the Random House booth (#2205) Friday from 5-6 p.m. and Saturday from 11-noon. Also be sure to check the 47North booth two aisles over at #2022, publishers of my Overdraft book. Follow me on Twitter …
The second Star Wars Reads Day promoting literacy is slated for Saturday, Oct. 5, and I will be participating in one live event and one online one. First, you can begin participating now in the Goodreads chat for the day, by joining this group and asking questions. I will be answering questions along with Ryder Windham, Jason Fry, Chris Alexander, Hans Jennsen, Rich Chasemore, and Simon Beecroft. I expect to …
(Another guest post, this time out from fellow 47North author Steve McHugh of the Hellequin Chronicles series on a topic many have a view on…) HAN SHOT FIRST by Steve McHugh This piece contains spoilers about the original Star Wars film. If you haven’t seen it yet… then I feel sorry for you. Go correct your mistake first. I didn’t see the original Star Wars movie back in 1977, primarily …