New Dawn Countdown
August 18, 2014 at 6:01 am | Posted in Books, Events, Random House, Star Wars, Star Wars Books, Star Wars Rebels, Television | Leave a commentTags: a new dawn, john jackson miller
Halfway there, John Jackson Miller’s #NewDawnCountdown continues. Here’s an update if you’d like to catch up on all of them at once.
#NewDawnCountdown 15) @DelReyStarWars just released the official video of our #StarWars: A NEW DAWN San Diego panel: https://t.co/CSyjHomXtn
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 18, 2014
https://twitter.com/jjmfaraway/status/501406613769834496
#NewDawnCountdown 15c) The ILM team used the weeks since the event to remove my zombified expression, which sets in 24 hours into Comic-Con.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 18, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 15d) Had the panel been on Sunday rather than Friday, they would have had to replace me with an animated CGI character.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 18, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 15e) I was rooting to be replaced by Buzz Lightyear, but Gollum probably would have been closer to the source material.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 18, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 16) Why a moon and not a sun on NEW DAWN's cover? That's no moon: it's a huge part of the plot. pic.twitter.com/dtX79heYIc
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 17, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 16b) The moon appears in the chapter header designs. And the parts of the book are labeled as "phases." #SeeWhatIDidThere.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 17, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 16c) I have a big Replogle lunar globe looming over my desk; I looked to it for inspiration a lot. http://t.co/CnBy2RZbom
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 17, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 16d) For the curious, it's this globe: http://t.co/AqGRn09j47 I like that it's loose from the base. A handy bowling ball.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 17, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 17) The title's A NEW DAWN, but it's set on a planet where the residents will never see a sunrise. http://t.co/CnBy2RZbom
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 16, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 17b) That part's not the Empire's fault; nature's to blame. But just about everything else wrong with the planet is!
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 16, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 17c) Made for tricky writing: references to time of day like morning and evening related only to the characters' workdays.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 16, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 18) A Jedi Master plays a role in NEW DAWN. I'd say who but he hasn't been called by that name in a long time…a long time.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 15, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 18b) On a related note, let's take this #FollowFriday to run a drawing with a couple of newly released Kenobi softcovers…
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 15, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 19) Writing about the rise of the Empire in A NEW DAWN allowed me to draw upon my old Soviet Studies grad school work.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 14, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 19b) It's true, what I've said: I was going for a Soviet Studies doctorate when the USSR collapsed on my dissertation.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 14, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 19c) I was driving back from Indiana U.'s Russian language immersion camp when the coup happened: http://t.co/BWhGOLqaJP
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 14, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 19d) I'd finally use something I learned a dozen years later — writing CRIMSON DYNAMO for @Marvel: http://t.co/wXH18LjRC2
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 14, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 19e) And now, NEW DAWN depicts the Republic's mutation into a totalitarian state. Wait long enough, everything's useful!
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 14, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 19f) I've just been alerted @DelReyStarWars has set up a page with most of the NEW DAWN orderlinks: http://t.co/ixts7Xi6Fv
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 14, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 20) My schedule didn't permit an original NEW DAWN short story for @SW_Insider, so we excerpted an unseen chapter instead…
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 13, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 20b) …which cover artist Doug Wheatley provided several illustrations of. Image via @DelReyStarWars pic.twitter.com/XWEkJR9nJC
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 13, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 20c) Doug also gives us our first look at Imperial Captain Rae Sloane, one of my favorite new characters in the book.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 13, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 20d) I'm interviewed, too. @SW_Insider #152 is available soon at your store: http://t.co/zMZfc8dgxO pic.twitter.com/OvPLY7Q7NT
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 13, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 21) Sections of A NEW DAWN are introduced by Imperial HoloNews headlines. Gives it a newsreel feel. http://t.co/BDDIYeEmsb
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 12, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 21b) I'd previously written Holonews propaganda from the Republic side, in KOTOR comic text pages…
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 12, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 21c) …and in one of my earliest prose SW stories, "Interference." Which is still up on @suvudu: http://t.co/lRWcRAahrZ
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 12, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 21d) In the self-propaganda dept., I'm recording four podcasts in the next 48 hours. NEW DAWN rises in three weeks!
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 12, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 22) One scene in A NEW DAWN required a frame-by-frame rewatch of a sequence in Episode III. http://t.co/BDDIYeEmsb
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 11, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 22b) I usually trust my memory on these things, given how many times I've seen the films, but it's better to be safe.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 11, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 22c) Always amazed at the things I wind up doing that I can legitimately call "research"!
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 11, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 23) As in REBELS, various NEW DAWN elements come from past works. Literally, in the case of substances named in the book.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 10, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 23b) Kanan flies a baradium hauler for a firm that mines thorilide. It didn't feel necessary to invent new compound names.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 10, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 23c) Baradium's existed forever; thorilide's from my KOTOR tale THE REAPING. (Love the cover, BTW.) pic.twitter.com/6ifBpEjjiX
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 10, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 23d) The compound's properties could have been shown differently in the novel — but as it happens, they're unchanged.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 10, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 23e) "The Reaping" was a fun story, incidentally; it was just reprinted in the third KOTOR Omnibus. http://t.co/7QDtHBTRIM
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 10, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 24) The just-released 444-page paperback of Star Wars: KENOBI contains a NEW DAWN excerpt backup. http://t.co/QvuUPCvfI2
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 9, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 24b) It's fitting as both KENOBI and NEW DAWN focus on Jedi adrift and alone in the Dark Times, figuring out what to do.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 9, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 24c) I didn't realize it, but the KENOBI paperback also includes my short story prequel "Incognito" which ran in INSIDER.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 9, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 24d) The writer's association just sent the Scribe Award for KENOBI. Next mission: finding a shelf! pic.twitter.com/N6aPBooBVg
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 9, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 25) For the timeline-curious: Star Wars: A New Dawn is set several years after Order 66 and several years before REBELS.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 8, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 25b) This isn't to say the Story Group and I don't know an exact year; we do. I just didn't cite specifics in my text.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 8, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 25c) As I see it, dates mostly help to establish story sequence. They're not there to limit how many stories can be told.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 8, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 25d) Spider-Man had 50+ years of adventures from ages 17 to 25; The M*A*S*H 4077th spent 11 years in the Korean War!
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 8, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 25e) What characters and their surroundings should be like when the story's set: that's where knowing dates tends to help.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 8, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 25f) Precise timing WITHIN stories is fun, of course: A NEW DAWN occurs during a VERY short span! http://t.co/BDDIYeEmsb
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 8, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 25g) I do expect the specific date may come out; it just didn't feel right in my story. Imperial rule should feel endless.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 8, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 26) I didn't learn of the starting-point role NEW DAWN would play until late in the writing. It didn't change my approach.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 7, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 26b) Every novel or comic is someone's first. Every one should ALREADY be written as an introduction to the story world.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 7, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 26c) NEW DAWN would still coexist comfortably with the past regardless; it's set during a mostly unexplored time-frame.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 7, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 26d) It's fitting the book's acronym is "AND." it's crafted for new readers AND for #StarWars veterans who've read it all.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 7, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 27) As you may've heard, STAR WARS: A NEW DAWN is the first novel to come from collaboration with Lucasfilm's Story Group.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 6, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 27b) I got story notes from REBELS exec producers Simon @Kinberg and @Greg_Weisman and teleconferenced with @dave_filoni.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 6, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 27c) The resulting novel is almost entirely as I imagined it, but is much improved by what came from the consultations…
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 6, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 27d) …particularly in helping to define what Kanan and Hera would be like when the story occurs. http://t.co/BDDIYeEmsb
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 6, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 28) I chose to do a much-earlier prequel to REBELS because I wanted to dig into the problems of early Imperial expansion.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 5, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 28b) The Republic turns from a commercial power into a huge military machine blindingly fast. Wanted to show part of how.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 5, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 28c) And speaking of manufacturing, the hardcover is now off the presses and at @DelReyStarWars! pic.twitter.com/xkwG5eOO6t
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 5, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 29) STAR WARS: A NEW DAWN began life last fall. With some dark novels planned, @DelReyStarWars sought a heroic contrast.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 4, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 29b) NEW DAWN is about a dark time, but has a space opera dynamic similar to my past KOTOR comics. http://t.co/BDDIYeEmsb
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 4, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 29c) Similarity to A NEW HOPE's title is accidental, but both have characters forced to work together for a common cause.
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 4, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 29d) See for yourself: @DelReyStarWars has posted its preview chapters. http://t.co/avaRGrw8sU Book releases Sept. 2!
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 4, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 30) I first wrote for Dark Times era in the "Sword of the Empire" RPG module. We had an Inquisitor! http://t.co/QHYn77pPXe
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 3, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 30b) The module's offline since the license changed hands. A fun project, but a LOT of hard work. pic.twitter.com/aP0VBTKdEk
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 3, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 30c) But it was my first stab at misery under the Empire. We also got to see the Stereb from KOTOR. pic.twitter.com/ppqViANssH
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 3, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 31) STAR WARS: A NEW DAWN cover artist Doug Wheatley drew something I'd written just once before… pic.twitter.com/gIfxgIyQm5
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 2, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 31b) …the scene I'd written for Zayne & Gryph when they appeared in the Dark Times part of VECTOR. pic.twitter.com/MDrjRPAl3B
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 2, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 31c) That one sequence of dialogue is all I wrote in the Dark Times series. More Vector notes here: http://t.co/myqoSKmJOc
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 2, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 32) The Emperor's line on the back cover of A New Dawn came from an early Episode III script… pic.twitter.com/VGeymg8GqH
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 1, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 32b) …it's pared down in the film but appears in whole in the comics adaptation and Insider #84. pic.twitter.com/Pitm2vmvWF
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 1, 2014
#NewDawnCountdown 33) Writing Star Wars: A New Dawn required me to get some things from storage. Call it research. pic.twitter.com/flAJjzi3rB
— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 1, 2014
A New Dawn will be out in hardcover, digital and audiobook formats on September 2nd. Click here for the official product page which includes excerpts, purchase links and more.
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