JOURNEY TO LOST STARS

THE YOUNG ADULT (YA) NOVEL LOST STARS, PART OF THE JOURNEY TO THE FORCE AWAKENS PUBLISHING PROGRAM LAUNCHED ON FORCE FRIDAY, IS ALREADY PROVING, ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND VIA WORD OF MOUTH, TO BE MUCH-LOVED BY FANS. TRICIA BARR SPOKE TO AUTHOR CLAUDIA GRAY ABOUT CREATING THE STORY OF CIENA REE AND THANE KYRELL.

At Celebration III, my first Star Wars convention, all of the books panels were standing-room-only events. For example, one panel I attended featured Matthew Stover previewing his upcoming novelization of Revenge of the Sith. Fans of the Expanded Universe, now called Legends, were keen to see more from the author of New Jedi Order: Traitor and Shatterpoint. Many of the panel’s attendees were regulars from message boards, with tags hung on our lanyards that identified our forum usernames. One by one, fans went to the microphone, and it became apparent from the parade of insightful questions how much about storytelling—point of view, characterization, dialogue—the audience had absorbed through interaction with the great storytellers writing Star Wars novels. This is as true of Star Wars authors and their wonderful stories now…

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