Short fiction

Overdraft short story in Apollo’s Daughters Kickstarter anthology

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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 …

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KOTOR Labor Pains, other Star Wars short stories again available!

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Today sees the release of Pablo Hidalgo‘s excellent Star Wars: The Essential Reader’s Companion from Random House/Del Rey. It’s a massive tome which starts a long time ago with a certain group of location-challenged Sith and goes on from there, covering all the Star Wars fiction in print. And now, some of that fiction is back in print, thanks to Del Rey, on its Suvudu site — including my very …

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Knight Errant: Influx, prequel story, now online!

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Star Wars: Knight Errant: Influx, my prequel prose story to Knight Errant #1 (in stores now!) is now online for your reading enjoyment at Star Wars.com. Find out about Kerra and Vannar Treece’s arrival in Sith space. The plan went wrong even before the plan went wrong! I’ll have some notes up about this story in the near future — but in the meantime, enjoy. Coming soon, we also have …

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“The Secret Journal of Doctor Demagol” now online!

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A busy week for short stories! The Secret Journal of Doctor Demagol is now online here at StarWars.com on its Hyperspace fan club service. This is a fun little story I had originally conceived of as a companion piece for Demagol’s origin story, which eventually ran in Knights of the Old Republic #48. In effect, we get to see what was going on “behind the mask” from the beginning of …

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Bonus KOTOR, Midsouthcon & more…

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A few things. First off, Midsouthcon was great, as usual. I don’t have any photos of my own this time, but it was great getting to meet Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, Gail Simone, and all the other guests there — and we had some very good panels. (That’s me and Gail in the pic, image courtesy Lin Workman.) My own annual panel on new projects had the largest audience …

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Lost Tribe of the Sith: Read it for free!

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The news of this has been on the fan sites for a while, but I am pleased to announce my first Star Wars prose fiction for Del Rey. And not only is it online as of today, but you can read it for free! Fate of the Jedi is a nine-novel series by Aaron Allston, Christie Golden, and Troy Denning, taking place in the years after the Star Wars films …

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New Star Wars short story on Hyperspace: “Interference”

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And my second Star Wars short story has gone online on StarWars.com for members of the Hyperspace fan club: “Interference.” It’s an unusual tale set during the weeks after the Mandalorian invasion of the Republic — and one that allowed me to imagine what the attendant propaganda war would be like. (Answer: one-sided!) If you’ve ever heard the recorded propaganda broadcasts of Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose, you’ll find something …

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