Club Jade

The hype continues. Joe Schreiber reports that that the first look at Deathtroopers got over 50,000 page views. It’s officially big on the internet! (Plus he’ll be at NYCC this weekend with some extremely unofficial swag – the book’s soundtrack.)

Meanwhile, we have another sighting: Literary agent Colleen Lindsay, with nothing but praise.

• Solicitations: StarWars.com has the May 2009 comics, including Star Wars Adventures: Princess Leia and the Royal Ransom, Legacy #6, Knights of the Old Republic #41, Dark Times #14 and The Clone Wars #6.

• Comic: Get your Dark Times fix with ‘Blue Harvest’ part 2 on MySpace.
• Short stories: A new Hyperspace story, ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Praji,’ by Nathan O’Keefe.

There’s a new Hyperspace short story – ‘Fists of Iron’ by Ed Erdelac – a fan who has previously contributed a What’s the Story. (Well, don’t get too excited, fanfic writers – he does have a few publishing credits.)

The latest offering is Interference from KOTOR writer John Jackson Miller, which seems to have something to do with Mandalorians in said era. Enjoy.

Just days after the last one, StarWars.com posts a new Hyperspace short story: Crossroads by Christopher Cerasi, featuring Leia only three months before Courtship of Princess Leia.

Deader than a Triton Moon is a brand new short story from Jason Fry, co-author of the upcoming Essential Atlas.

Yet more brand new fiction for Hyperspace members! The latest selection is Lando Calrissian: Idiot’s Array, set pre-ESB, by Rich Handley.

Which old-schooler will be next? Dare we guess?

‘Precipice,’ the second brand new Hyperspace short story, is up on StarWars.com – and it’s by our own Chris Cassidy! She tells me that it takes place while Obi-Wan is held prisoner on Geonosis during Attack of the Clones.

Knights of the Old Republic writer John Jackson Miller’s ‘Labor Pains’ is up on StarWars.com with illustrations by Pablo Hidalgo.

According to Knights of the Old Republic writer John Jackson Miller on the TFN boards, StarWars.com’s Hyperspace will soon be bringing us original Star Wars short stories. (They’ve been reprinting previously-published short stories from magazines and anthologies for quite a while now, as well as original webstrips.) Miller’s “Labor Pains” will be among the first offerings.

• Vagueness time! Hyperspace in 2008 will bring us… stuff! And things! (Wait a minute, did that say original fiction? Tease!)

• Humor: Jawas, so uncivilized.
• Video: Star Wars Merch Circa 1979.
• Buy stuff! One StarWarsShop exclusive, and another (Shadow Trooper?) to come today?
• Bantha Tracks: Interview with the winner of CIV’s Lawrence Noble bust; Youngling fans.
• Source Archive: More Dark Empire with The Full Power of the Dark Side, Lost For Over 300 Years, and For a Thousand Generations. The latest two, Festival Public Executions Canceled and ISO Announces Mid-Rim Tour, hail from the Adventure Journal’s Galaxywide NewsNets olumn.