One of my favorites as well I’d like to know ‘everything’: how did you I, Jedi is about Corran Horn, who was created by youĪnd became of the most popular Expanded Universe characters. Lucasfilm liked the idea, and I got a phone call. Lucasfilm about a new set of a dozen books, and Tom offered I, Jedi as one of them. No contract or even the inkling of a contract. This was just a pipe dream weĭiscussed while walking around in Baltimore at a convention. I’d had a talk with Tom Dupree, my Star Wars editor about I, JediĪnd wanting to tell it in first person. That was something you had to push for or was it something Lucasfilm No other Star Wars book at the time had done before, so I wonder if Your book I, Jedi was written in first person, which He said yes, so Bantam got to offer me the series. Anderson to ask him if I couldĭo the job. Much the only author that checked all of the boxes. Had done tie-in work and who could actually do a good job, I was pretty Science Fiction, who understood computer gaming, who worked fast, who
Through their stable of authors for someone who could write military Of taking a license out on the X-wing computer game. Original deal because it was early days yet. Wanted to expand the line, but Lucasfilm didn’t want to extend the How did you get this dream job?īantam Books had great success with the Timothy Zahn novels, and You wrote your first official Star Wars book in the mid 90’s X-Wing: Rogue Squadron.
Michael Stackpole Author: I, Jedi, X-Wing series, Dark Tide I & II Interview: May 2019
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