New SW Author Karen Miller recently sat down with the Unofficial Clone Wars Site to discuss her upcoming novel, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Wild Space,” the second in a five novel series. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

“T - Karen Traviss’s The Clone Wars was the first step at bringing the Star Wars Clone Wars series to prose - how does your book follow with the series? Is it an adaptation from the series, or is it an original work with the same constraints and inspiration?

K - Wild Space follows on from Karen T’s Clone Wars novel, in so far as it — broadly speaking — picks up after the events of the film/her novelisation. But having said that, there are some flashbacks to Attack of the Clones too, which I had the most fun writing, I can’t begin to tell you. Anyhow, what I’ve done is weave a new adventure for Obi-Wan — and Bail Organa — in and around a pivotal event in the tv series — namely, the loss of Artoo in the field. The folk at Lucasfilm and Del Rey have been so wonderful — I asked if I could get a bit creative, and they fully supported me. So there are some scenes from the tv episodes that I retell from a different point of view, that tie Wild Space in with the series but leave me free to tell a new story. If that makes any sense. *g* As for the next two I’m writing, well, they’re bubbling away in the back of my mind right now. No spoilers!”

You can read the entire interview here. Karen Miller’s “Wild Space” is slated for a December 9 release as paperback.

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