{"id":444,"date":"2012-10-17T23:14:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T05:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/?p=444"},"modified":"2012-10-17T23:19:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T05:19:25","slug":"october-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"October 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next update November 2<\/em><\/p>\n

Just survived GDC Austin, now I’m packing my bags for my trip up North to Canada for for STARFest<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Well, technically I wasn’t at GDC Austin… but I did go out several nights to meet friends and former BioWare folk who now work at companies like Blizzard and Riot. Seeing how many Bio-folk have become “players” in the industry is a real\u00a0testament to how good our team was.<\/p>\n

But GDC is over, and I’m looking forward to this weekend. I’ll be speaking at the St. Albert Public Library on a topic I have some familiarity with:\u00a0Exploring Evil and the Dark Side of Star Wars<\/a>. You can get\u00a0tickets here<\/a>\u00a0if you want to hear my thoughts on creating villians in books and games. They’re only $5, and the money goes to help support the library… as an author I think that’s a very worthy cause.<\/p>\n

Hosting my talk will be Brent Knowles<\/a>, a former colleague at BioWare and an accomplished sci-fi author in his own write. (Yes, that’s a terrible pun.)Obviously, Star Wars will be a focus, but I’ll be talking quite a bit about Mass Effect as well. And then I’ll be taking questions from the audience and probably signing some books. Here’s a story in the St. Albert Gazette<\/a> – my hometown paper – about the event. Lots of award winning authors at the event… yet somehow I got invited anyway. Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n

And if you can’t make it out to see my talk, at least you can check out this years Mass Effect Marathon<\/a> over at g33kwatch. Once again, they’re raising money for Child’s Play <\/a>– a very worthy charity.<\/p>\n

Shortly after that – November 13 to be exact\u00a0– my next novel is coming out: Star Wars: Annihilation<\/a>. It’s a bit of a departure from the Sith\/Jedi focused works I’ve done in the past (though both Sith and Jedi are involved). This one has a more of a secret agent\/James Bond\/Mass Effect feel to it. (Hmm… am I allowed to say one of my\u00a0Star Wars books\u00a0has a “Mass Effect” feel?)<\/p>\n

Annihilation has some tie-ins with the Star Wars: The Old Republic <\/a>video game, but\u00a0you don’t need to play the game to enjoy the novel. But\u00a0 if you did play the game, you will recognize some of the characters: Jace Malcom, Satele Shan and Master Gnost-Dural all make appearances. But the main hero of the story is Theron Shan, the protagonist from the Lost Suns <\/a>comics written by Alex Freed. Alex also has a short story “prequel” to the novel coming out soon.\u00a0The Last Battle of Colonel Jace Malcom<\/a>\u00a0appears in\u00a0Star Wars Insider<\/a> magazine issue #137 on October 23.<\/p>\n

For those of you who follow my updates by not my Twitter feed, here are some links to a bunch of recent interviews with me that have gone up on the web:
\nBombad Radio <\/a>had me answer questions submitted by fans. This was done by e-mail, so I actually come across reasonably well.
\nFangirl Next Door <\/a>caught up with me and some of the other authors at Star Wars Reads Day – my stuff comes in around the 30:40 mark of the podcast. This was done live into a recorder (almost said “tape” recorder – damn, I’m old!), so I sound like I’m either drunk or simple. Hey, I’m a writer not a talker! (But totally go see my talk at StarFest.)
\nEUcantina<\/a> posted a video interview I did back at Celebration promoting Star Wars reads day. Fortunately, this format allowed me to do retakes on things where I sounded stupid, so you’ll hear a lot less “uhs” and “ums”.<\/p>\n

Okay, that’s about it for this update.\u00a0Next update I’ll be talking a lot more about Annihilation; total coincidence that it will be coming out a couple weeks later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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