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That left an opening for a possible book in a more heroic vein.Īt the same time, Del Rey was looking for ways to possibly tie into the Rebels TV series, slated to launch in the fall of 2014. New York Comic-Con, where I was to sign for Random House/Del Rey, was near the end of that promotional phase afterward, I would be getting back to writing - once I figured out what I wanted to write next.Īt Comic-Con, one of my editors then at Random House, Frank Parisi, suggested to me that Del Rey was considering a number of Star Wars projects that focused on the villains these are the books, I believe, that later became James Luceno‘s Tarkin and Paul Kemp‘s Lords of the Sith. My Star Wars: Kenobi novel had been released in late summer, becoming a bestseller promoting the book had commanded a lot of my attention in the fall. The first rays of A New Dawn (pun intended) started to appear in the fall of 2013. “You can’t always guess what role someone will play.” - Hera Syndulla FIRST STEPS INTO A LARGER WORLD

And set as it is during the Imperial period, A New Dawn gave me the opportunity to explore a variety of topics, including how the Empire manages to grow so quickly, injecting itself into all spheres of individual life. But as our characters find, one doesn’t always get to decide when the best time is to act.

This is the first novel integrating input from the Lucasfilm Story Group, which manages story concepts across all media, and so in addition to working with Random House’s team I both got inspiration and feedback from the series’ executive producers, Dave Filoni, Simon Kinberg, and Greg Weisman, as well as Pablo Hidalgo, Rayne Roberts, Jennifer Heddle, and Leland Chee.Ī New Dawn is a rollicking adventure set in the darkest days of the galaxy, when even the thought of organized resistance to the Empire seems an impossible fantasy. As you can see from the cover, two of the main characters of that series, Kanan and Hera, have major roles in the book.

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Star Wars: A New Dawn, my first Star Wars book since Kenobi, is set several years after Star Wars: Episode III - and several years before the Disney XD network’s animated television series Star Wars: Rebels.