Star Wars: A New Dawn

Star Wars: A New Dawn paperback now available — plus production notes!

And another book for your shelf! Star Wars: A New Dawn is now available in paperback at your local bookseller — and you can also, at long last, find my production notes, trivia, and answers to frequently asked questions here on the site. It’s a wide-ranging document, covering the creation of the book and including trivia that hits stops everywhere from the Civil War to the Russian Revolution, while taking …

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Star Wars: A New Dawn rises in stores today!

And… it’s a book! Star Wars: A New Dawn releases today in hardcover, e-book, and audiobook formats. It’s a great honor to write a Star Wars book, as always — and particularly given the introductory role this story plays. I hope you’ll enjoy it. UPDATE: Check out my blog post about the book — and my life as a Star Wars fan — at the official Star Wars blog! You …

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The long-awaited update! My San Diego schedule and more…

And… I’m back! No, it really wasn‘t my intention to go three months without a post here. But I was in lockdown writing Star Wars: A New Dawn and Star Trek: The Next Generation – Takedown — both of which are completed and with their respective publishers. There followed a week of unconsciousness — and now, I wake just in time for… San Diego Comic-Con? It’s been a busy year, to …

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My secret Star Wars mission (and no Bothans died in the process!)

I like to keep my characters in motion as a writer — but sometimes, the writers are the ones in motion. So it was in March, while I was finishing Star Wars: A New Dawn, my new novel for Random House. (Read more about it here.) The publisher asked me to make a fast trip out to Lucasfilm in California, to be part of their Expanded Universe appreciation video. It …

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My new novel: STAR WARS: A NEW DAWN rises at Random House!

The news is out! I can at last share the project I’ve been working on this fall and winter: STAR WARS: A NEW DAWN is my new hardcover adult novel release, set for release this September from Random House/Del Rey! The novel (my first Star Wars work since Kenobi) is set several years after Star Wars: Episode III — and several years before the upcoming animated television series Star Wars: …

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