New Dawn Countdown – Complete!

September 1, 2014 at 3:42 pm | Posted in Books, Random House, Star Wars, Star Wars Books, Star Wars Rebels, Television | Leave a comment
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John Jackson Miller’s A New Dawn is out tomorrow. To bide you over for the wait, here is a full rundown of all of John Jackson Miller’s tweets for his #NewDawnCountdown full of trivia and hints at what’s in store.

#NewDawnCountdown 1) NEW DAWN releases tomorrow. My thanks to all who followed the Countdown! http://t.co/bXTelZvET6 pic.twitter.com/F146VKYwNn

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) September 1, 2014

https://twitter.com/jjmfaraway/status/506510692829388803

#NewDawnCountdown 1c) But for following during the Countdown, I give the Twitterati possibly the goofiest trivial factoid about A NEW DAWN…

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) September 1, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 1d) By sheer coincidence, A NEW DAWN contains several nods to a novelty song that hit #1 the week I turned eight.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) September 1, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 1e) I'll explain more later, but at the moment it'll be more fun if I let you guys try to find them on your own. Enjoy!

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) September 1, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 1f) See you tomorrow at 7 at the NEW DAWN Barnes & Noble signing in Grand Chute/Appleton, Wis.! http://t.co/SbK2CIPxrp

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) September 1, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 2) Closing out the character roundup are the two #StarWarsRebels characters in A NEW DAWN, Kanan and Hera.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 31, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 2b) The REBELS executive producers provided guidance on what Kanan and Hera's initial reactions to each other would be.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 31, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 2c) Hera reveals the least about her history and motives; that wasn't my story to tell. Kanan's secret is a bigger focus.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 31, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 2d) That was the fun of the duo: she has secrets, he acts like he doesn't. But what he's concealing is pretty important.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 31, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 2e) How Hera's impression of Kanan evolves during A NEW DAWN is a big driver of the story. http://t.co/bXTelZvET6

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 31, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 2f) Release party's Tuesday at 7 at the B&N in Grand Chute/Appleton, Wis. http://t.co/SbK2CIPxrp

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 31, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 2g) And orders for personalized NEW DAWNs & other books are being taken at http://t.co/XYWqHTb9Nu while supplies last.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 31, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 3) Yesterday, @SWatDC tweeted about the diversity of A NEW DAWN's cast, which leads me to a topic many have asked about…

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 30, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 3b) Yes, there are female stormtroopers in NEW DAWN. I saw no reason why they wouldn't be recruited in the post-Clone era.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 30, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 3c) The Emperor plays upon rifts between species. But the films don't suggest gender or racial barriers within humanity.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 30, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 3d) Palpatine happily draws upon the talents of all members of humanity to get his way. He's an equal opportunity tyrant.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 30, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 3e) I wasn't making any kind of statement, but neither did I think twice about it. In-universe, it made perfect sense.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 30, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 3f) And as in many things Star Wars-related, John Ostrander did it first: http://t.co/X7n9MXNfn1

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 30, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 3g) Just seventy-two hours until A NEW DAWN releases. Getting close now! http://t.co/bXTelZvET6 pic.twitter.com/ZFfRrci9JV

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 30, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 4) My favorite of the heroes, Skelly is the first character I created for A NEW DAWN. He is, to put it charitably, a mess!

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 29, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 4b) A non-clone Clone War veteran, he's suspicious of that phony war. Problem: He's suspicious of almost everything else!

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 29, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 4c) Compounding Skelly's many issues: his one talent besides conspiracy theories and being annoying is blowing things up!

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 29, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 4d) Skelly typifies the era's problem: the earliest agitators are often ill-suited for revolution. http://t.co/bXTelZvET6

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 29, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 4e) A NEW DAWN is also featured in today's 50 Page Friday from @Suvudu. Enjoy! http://t.co/hGrYH7Bb6N

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 29, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 5) News: @DelReyStarWars is bringing me to New York Comic Con, Oct. 9-12! Hope to sign at least three days. @NY_Comic_Con

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 28, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 5b) I regret it means I won't be able to make the Reads Day event I'd intended. I'll try to do another Chicago event soon!

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 28, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 5c) Back to our countdown: Of all the characters in A NEW DAWN, Zaluna, a Sullustan, may have seen the most. It's her job!

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 28, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 5d) Zaluna has worked domestic surveillance on Gorse since back in the Republic days. She feels it's an honorable calling.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 28, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 5e) A long practiced commercial and state activity under the Republic, surveillance reaches a new level under the Empire.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 28, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 5f) Zaluna likes her job; she's no dissident. But she's about to see things differently. http://t.co/bXTelZvET6

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 28, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 6) "They fell off a speedertruck, eh? Good work, minion. Make sure The Gryph gets his percentage!" pic.twitter.com/Slw21UOmIG

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 27, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 6b) Put another way, A NEW DAWN is in the house! It's in your store Tuesday. http://t.co/bXTelZvET6 pic.twitter.com/vmCEtMXrVi

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 27, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 6c) If you can't attend my events and want a personalized NEW DAWN, I'm now taking preorders at http://t.co/XYWqHTb9Nu

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 27, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 6d) Running out of days, so back to the character roundup: Okadiah is the perfect landlord for Kanan. He owns a cantina!

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 27, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 6e) Kanan flies explosives to the mines by day — and buses miners back to Okadiah's cantina by night. An ideal set-up!

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 27, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 6f) Kanan doesn't stick around anywhere very long, but The Asteroid Belt is a tough cantina to leave. Standing up, anyway!

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 27, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 6g) There wasn't any character in the book I didn't look forward to writing, but Okadiah was a lot of fun.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 27, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 7) #StarWars A NEW DAWN releases one week from today, and we interrupt this countdown for some announcements…

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 26, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 7b) @DelReyStarWars has posted @dave_filoni's NEW DAWN foreword on its site. Thanks again, Dave! http://t.co/bXTelZvET6

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 26, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 7c) Launch event is next Tues at 7 at the B&N in Grand Chute/Appleton, Wis. http://t.co/SbK2CIPxrp pic.twitter.com/JYhVoMUukS

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 26, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 7d) The Emperor is sending the @501stLegion to observe. We would be honored if you would join us. pic.twitter.com/xLeESB4Vob

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 26, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 8) The first Imperial we meet in NEW DAWN is Rae Sloane. She captains the star destroyer Ultimatum. http://t.co/bXTelZvET6

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 25, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 8b) Stunned there'd never been a ship named Ultimatum in #StarWars. The name fit her mission as Vidian's enforcer well.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 25, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 8c) Sloane is one of the "New Imperials," a term for the first generation to enter service after the Republic's fall.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 25, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 8d) Like Vidian, she sees the Empire as a natural step in the galaxy's political evolution. And she plans to go far in it.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 25, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 9) A NEW DAWN's villain, Count Vidian, is the Emperor's efficiency expert, out to whip underperforming systems into shape.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 24, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 9b) Vidian even reinvented himself according to his business philosophy — literally. He's a cyborg. That's devotion!

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 24, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 9c) Vidian's physical abilities and instant access to data systems make him a challenging foe for Kanan and Hera's group.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 24, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 9d) And Vidian BELIEVES. One of the Emperor's early backers, he's fully on board with the cause. http://t.co/bXTelZvET6

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 24, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 10) Just 10 days to go until STAR WARS: A NEW DAWN rises, and a countdown is particularly relevant… http://t.co/bXTelZvET6

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 23, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 10b) The section titles in A NEW DAWN correspond to steps in preparing explosive baradium for detonation.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 23, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 10c) And there are certainly many bombs, human, non-human and otherwise, waiting to go off in the Gorse system!

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 23, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 10d) Earlier title fun: in KENOBI, the section titles were all locations, physical or metaphorical. http://t.co/S5gijFlXuf

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 23, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 10e) And LOST TRIBE OF THE SITH's titles began alternately with P and S, hinting at the postscript. http://t.co/OcIUTpHgY8

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 23, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 11) US residents: @DelReyStarWars is giving away 20 signed #SDCC NEW DAWN editions. Enter by 8/28! http://t.co/Uu7wWGHbF0

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 22, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 12) That Kenner Imperial troop transport I tweeted weeks back? It really is featured in NEW DAWN. pic.twitter.com/6dctueJIMM

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 21, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 12b) The transport appeared in the old Marvels — and is in REBELS, too. More from @starwars' site: http://t.co/yBb8o8tJxu

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 21, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 12c) It always seemed a ridiculously vulnerable way to move troops — but that suggests how sure the Empire is of itself.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 21, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 12d) If there's no rebellion (as is the case during A NEW DAWN) you can let Stormtroopers ride on the hood and not care!

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 21, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 13) Taking the younglings to their first Major League game today (#Brewers–#Bluejays) so only time for one related note:

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 20, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 13b) I started my NEW DAWN pitch the last day of the 2013 World Series; I finished the manuscript on Opening Day! #Timing

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 20, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 13c) Perhaps the birth of literature itself may have been a effort to find things to do during the sports offseason…

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 20, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 14) STAR WARS is space opera and not hard science, but a lot of thought went into the planet-moon system in NEW DAWN.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 19, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 14b) Found myself thinking of Lagrange points and Roche limits. Hadn't done that since my high school science fair project

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 19, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 14c) Science needn't be perfect in a realm where there's sound in space, but sometimes the homework generates story ideas.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 19, 2014

#NewDawnCountdown 14d) STAR WARS: A NEW DAWN releases two weeks from today. I promise there will be no math. http://t.co/ixts7Xi6Fv

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 19, 2014

#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

#NewDawnCountdown 15b) The panel includes @JenHeddle, @VanMarshall, @dave_filoni, Shelly Shapiro, Pablo Hidalgo, and yours truly.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) August 18, 2014

#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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