Club Jade

Troy Denning is going on tour for the March release of the last Fate of the Jedi book, Apocalypse. Follow the links for times and addresses.

• Tuesday, March 13 at the Barnes & Noble in Roseville, MN.
• Wednesday, March 14 at the Barnes & Noble in Carmel, IN.
• Thursday, March 15 at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Crestview Hills, KY.
• Friday, March 16 at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington, KY.
• Saturday, March 17 at All-Con Dallas in Dallas, TX.
• Monday, March 19 at the Tattered Cover in Highlands Ranch, CO.
• Thursday, March 22 at the Barnes & Noble in Sacramento, CA.

Apocalypse will be out in hardcover on March 13

Interviews Bonnie’s been doing the rounds for her craft book with interviews at Geekdad and TFN. The book also got favorable reviews on TFN, Geekdad, and iGeektrooper.

Meanwhile, Deceived author Paul S. Kemp has appeared on podcasts from SF Signal and (along with John Jackson Miller) the ForceCast’s Jedi Journals.

Tour. DK is sending out some of their authors and artists, along with The Clone Wars’ Ashley Eckstein, on an east coast tour throughout May. Ryder Windham, Chris Reiff, Chris Trevas, and Jason Fry will be making appearances.

This place can get a little rough. Looking for a new forum home now that the ones on StarWars.com are going away? EU Cantina has revamped their boards, and even TFN’s Lit has a welcome thread.

Rancho Obi-Wan. A look inside Steve Sansweet’s library.

Tomorrow we can finally all get our hands on Fate of the Jedi: Outcast, the first book in the latest post-ROTJ series. Also kicking off is Aaron Allston ‘s seven-city book tour in Lexington. And be sure to check out the excerpt if you haven’t already.

As for comics, Wednesday brings Legacy #34, and I’ve also been seeing the latest Insider in stores. And TFN is reporting that UK fans have spotted the first Star Wars Adventures digest, but I don’t think we’ll be seeing them in the states just yet.

As promised by the Random House spring catalog, Fate of the Jedi author Aaron Allston is going on a seven-city tour for the series’ first book, Outcast. Fans in Lexington, Chicago, Kansas City, Seattle, Sacramento, Phoenix, and Austin, mark your calenders: Details are beneath the cut. (more…)

Random House has posted their spring catalog as a PDF, and it includes a blurb (though no cover) for Fate of the Jedi!

Fate of the Jedi launches a huge story arc, with heroic roles for the galaxy’s most beloved characters — Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa Solo, and their surviving children, Ben Skywalker and Jaina Solo. While Luke and Ben set off on the journey of a lifetime — of discovery and hardship, of obstacles and victories—the others remain in more familiar territory, dealing with the aftermath of the civil war that rocked the galaxy in the Legacy of the Force.

Some of that is familiar from early rumors but it’s good to have some sort of official confirmation. (When are the print catalogs sent out, exactly? Could it be the source of the early leak? Plus there are a few recently-revealed things missing, like the title of book 1, Outcast.) We can also expect a seven-city author tour, a “free PDF sampler giveaway,” an “original prequel short story” and a live chat (that’s been a while) on StarWars.com. (No, FateOfTheJedi.com isn’t live yet!)

Millennium Falcon also gets a page, which touts that it will have an excerpt from Outcast. Excerpts in hardcovers? That’s new…

• Interviews: StarWars.com catches up with Ben Harper about Obsessed With Star Wars.

• TFU: Preview Dark Horse’s The Force Unleashed adaption; See novel adaption author Sean Williams in Malibu.
• Toys: Expanded Universe Comic Pack pictures at Rebelscum.

The Harry Potter author will visit Los Angeles, New Orleans and New York this October, in the aftermath of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Also: How Harry Potter Really Ends.

These haven’t been confirmed by an official source yet, but there are dates for a Timothy Zahn Allegiance book tour on the TFN boards.

You-Know-Who’s latest project is Last Days of Krypton, “an epic novel about the demise of Superman’s home planet.” Our condolences to the many Super-fans who will feel obligated to read the book when it comes out next fall.

In (sorta) related news, David Farland, aka Dave Wolverton (Courtship of Princess Leia) is out and about on a book tour.

This is interesting… No author tour, but Bloodlines book release events in Texas, Maryland, Colorado, Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, and Utah.

Speaking of events, the Star Wars Road Trip was in Louisville yesterday.

And in other EU news, I somehow overlooked the Legacy #3 preview.