my next book (probably)

[adelaidesean]

The official announcement came and went without me noticing (whoops) so I am unintentionally tardy in confirming that I am indeed writing Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance, the first novel tie-in to the LucasArts/Bioware MMORG due next year: Both game and the book are set “more than 3,500 years in the past of the far-away galaxy...when the Jedi and the Galactic Republic clashed with the Sith Empire.” Sound like fun? It was. The book is epic, hardback, and due in July 2010.

I say "probably" in the subject line, btw, because the first two titles in The Fixers series (Castle of Zombies and Planet of Cyborgs) are due the same month. It's anyone's guess at this stage which one will actually come out first.

Comments

[aliettedb.livejournal.com]

Definitely sounds like fun :-)

[aidandoyle.livejournal.com]

Cool. Congratulations!
So did they give you the cheat codes for the online game? :-)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Alas, I never get cool stuff like that. :-)

But I have seen a demo of one of the missions and it looks *awesome*.

[tallaudrey.livejournal.com]

Congrats :-)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Just had a hot choclit to celebrate.

[paulhaines.livejournal.com]

I think you need a few more ':' in the title to be really effective though. Congrats!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Yeah, these titles are hilarious like that. Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Force Heretic: Remnant nearly broke my mind. :-)

[max-jaybo.livejournal.com]

I suppose someone should ask the big question about this...

How will the book relate to the game: is it a prequel, adaptation, original side story, etc...? (Can you even tell us just yet?)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I can say nothing at this stage. Sorry!

But it's fair to assume that novelizing an entire MMORG would be too big a task even for this black duck.