A&A The Official John Jackson Miller Thread

I'm not familiar with Mr. Miller's previous work but A New Dawn will be the first SW novel I buy since 2003 and I have heard really good things about his writing so i'm really excited to read it.

 

Thank you so much; that was absolutely my intention. I'm glad it worked for you.

 

There'll be a huge raft of more detailed interviews and podcasts detailing my experiences in the weeks to come, so for the moment I've been parceling out thoughts on this a little at a time through the month in my Twitter Countdown. But the upshot is it was a good experience where having input from those who were working in other media was invaluable. All of us did our best in the old days, but having a structure making more interplay and feedback possible is a helpful thing.

 

A non-Force-user "falling" is one of the greatest ideas of all time. In my opinion, one of the faults of the Legends EU (and Star Wars in general until now) is that every fall involved the dark side.

 

Well, a whole lot of "regular" people have to succumb to temptation for the Empire to work. The Emperor is counting on it, in fact, and egging it on. That's where A NEW DAWN begins.

 

You're welcome.

Spoiler

Orrin was giving me bad vibes starting with how he got jealous of Obi-Wan. It got worse in Mos Eisley, but I figured he had just gotten in over his head. Then...well, the rest happened. And yet at the very end I just pitied him.

I'm also embarrassed to say that I just assumed A'Yark was male. It wasn't until the reveal that I realized that there wasn't a single pronoun used for her before that. Kind of ironic, considering that the Star Wars fanfic I'm writing happens to be very light on male characters. Way to make me think about my unconscious biases, haha. Anyway, I loved the completely alien way you wrote the Tusken point of view. And I loved that Obi-Wan didn't tell Annileen the truth, even though I kind of wanted him to. Your portrayal of Obi-Wan was just terrific.

It really says something that I was really worried about the character who does literally nothing but stare off into space being dead. The characters are just that well done, they don't even have to do anything for me to be attached to them.

Kenobi is definitely one of the best of the EU, in my opinion. It might even be my favorite. I've already pre-ordered AND, and I'm really looking forward to it now.

 

So I asked JJM about the Mon Calamari doctor in Kenobi and just what would make a Mon Calamari decide to live on Tatooine.

His response was "As Rick said when asked about why he moved to Casablanca: "I was misinformed.""

 

Or as a great man once said, the suns doin murder to meesa skin.

 

Thanks, Mr Miller. You've done a great job with A New Dawn.
I appreciate the degree of thought you clearly put into describing the industrial and organizational structuring of the Empire, the evolution of society from the Republic era, and the state of the galaxy as a whole. Ordinarily, such details aren't of great importance to me, but as I read A New Dawn, I realized how much the depth you imbued the setting with was adding to the story. Writing the first novel of the new canon was a huge responsibility, and you handled it with skill and grace.

The characterization of Kanan as a drunken reprobate was hilarious, too.

 

Up, damn you, up - for JJM's next work is out!

And his first Star Trek book Takedown (following an ebook, Absent Enemies, last year)

I have a copy that is currently unread, but that'll change.

 

Recently finished A New Dawn, I quite enjoyed that book. Hera and Kanan are great, was actually hoping to get more of Hera's backstory, maybe the cartoon will cover some of that. Anyway, really great read, can't wait to see what's next JJM.

 

So, we are getting a new Vader&Sidious short story in the next Insider written by (presumably) JJM!

http://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/1/71/918?stockItemID=FEB151888

 

What are you seeing there that suggests JJM? Or did he tease it earlier?

 

taken from here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Star-Wars-Upcoming-Books-Comics/104147893033576?fref=ts

 

Just read your new short story Mister Miller and loved it, especially the reference to the academy system and Pell Baylo and his reaction to what the Republic is becoming under the Emperor and how he is twisting things that were once meant to serve the common good into something very different indeed. Also of course great to see Rae Sloane again and I hope we get more stories with her in future.

 

Just a note for JJM fans - he has a Star Trek trilogy (Prey) coming out later this year - you can see all 3 books here on Amazon UK. I haven't read too many ST books lately but this trilogy sounds pretty good.

 

Update on JJM's Prey ST series - I found the first one - Hell's Heart - in my local Waterstones bookstore today.

 

Massive revive I know but I had a question on the off chance @JohnJacksonMiller was sill lurking.

1) I was just wonder if you ever had any plans back in the day to put Nomi Sunrider in the Kotor comics?

2) Could you divulge any plans you had for the Knight Errent comic had you not had to end it where you did due to the change in hands of the license.

love your work and hope to see a full novel set in the galaxy far far away from you again soon!