is coming to AZ (brave woman to come in July!) on July 28th. I also posted this in the book club area. She will discuss her involvement on the new clone wars movie. I plan to go. Any pressing questions I should ask? I haven’t read any of the books, but given all our frustrations with the prequels, I’m very interested in the backstories we didn’t see on film.
She’s involved with Clone Wars? Interesting. She’s quite interesting. Aside from writing one of the most interesting Boba Fett stories, she’s also developed the Mandalorian language (if I’m remembering correctly).
I’d read her Republic Commando series about the Clone Troopers. I really love how Traviss has brought life to the Clones.
OMG I love the Republic Commando books, and hers were the best IMNRHAOO of the Legacy of the Force novel series.
I haven’t read the Legacy series yet.
Eh, s’okay, I guess 
I think I read it for completion reasons more than anything. But there’s AWESOME Boba Fett/Mando stuff.
Traviss is a good writer and does a fantastic job in the SW universe, especially with the Mandalorians. She wrote the novelization of the new Clone Wars movie which just came out today and is now making itself at home among my Star Wars collection. I can say that there are some SW fans who find her controversial because of her stance on the size of the Clone forces during the Clone Wars and for Sacrifice, which is part of the Legacy of the Force series.
Last night I went and saw Karin Traviss speak and sign copies of her new Clone Wars book. I’m a virgin to the EU but I still enjoyed everything she had to say. Her “escort” was the 501st. Legion and their costumes and gear were so cool. I wish I’d thought to bring my camera.
Traviss spoke a lot about the perils and thrills of writing tie-in books. She had two weeks to finish CW after receiving the final script. That was 50,000 words a week. Amazing. She writes using method acting technique by becoming her characters rather than narrating about them from a distance. She found Jabba very interesting to be inside of. When a writer gets so deep inside a character’s mind, you can really relate to their position, even if it’s something you don’t agree with. I thought this was great writing advice for any writer.
When she signed my book- “To DawnAZ” I asked her if she was a BSG fan. “Oh yes! Never thought I’d find anything I liked better than Babylon 5, but I did.” I asked if she’d write any BSG novels and she said she thought she was too much of fan to do it well.
It was a fun night and I was very happy the median age was about 40 
the adults out numbered the kids by about 4:1.
:eek: I don’t like what that says about the next generation of SW fans…
Thanks for the report. I think you’ve convinced me to go out and buy the Clone Wars novel ASAP. I loved that you asked the question about BSG and Travis’ answer.
The Clone Wars novel is fantastic. I picked it up on Saturday when it came out and finished it last night. The Clones are awesome, Captain Rex being the best of the bunch. I won’t give anything away but if the movie turns out as well as the book The Clone Wars is going to be awesome, although I’m not expecting it to be exactly the same since the novel is geared towards adults.
I’m going to Traviss’ book signing in Dallas tonight and I can’t wait because I’ve been dying to meet her since Sacrifice came out.
I just got back from Traviss’ book signing here in Dallas and I must say she’s great. Very funny and she gave us a lot of info on how she writes which was awesome. Now if I can only get a Matthew Stover book signing here in Dallas for Shadows of Mindor I will have met all of my favorite SW authors.
I met her when she was touring the US (rather disastrous bunch of flights she had), and she was great. I didn’t really hear much of what she had to say due to a bad sound system and my insistence on being at the front of the queue
And yeah, a lot of my friends around my age (23) don’t like Traviss’s novels, and I honestly can’t understand why. Although a couple of them liked novels I thought were atrocious, so … oh well. They’re wrong.
I’ve liked the stuff of hers I’ve read and now I think I’m gonna have to catch up on the Republic Commando stuff that I’ve avoided so far because she does such a fantastic job with the Clones in The Clone Wars.
We had such a small group tonight that there was no sound system and she didn’t even sit behind the table. She sat on the table and very informally chatted with us.
Wow, that sounds like fun. Yeah, when I met her it was at a huge Barnes and Noble in a rich Indianapolis suburb. There were loads of people there, and I think there was only a 1:1 ratio of Troopers and plainclothes fans. So it was huge.
Yeah, I started out scoffing at a book based on a videogame (hypocritical of me as my favourite previous novels were the X-wing series :p) but then I picked up the first two books one day and loved them. So then I picked up her Wess’har series of original fiction, and loved THAT too.
So I’m a Traviss fan and a Fandalorian
Did you go to the last Star Wars Celebration in Indianpolis? I pretty much had the same feeling about the Republic Commando book, but then I scored a free copy at SW Celebration 3 and have been hooked on the series ever since then.
I love the term Fanalorian. I love anything that deals with Fett or the Mandalorians. 
Reading all the posts here makes me glad I took the time to go see her even though I haven’t read anything in the EU (yet). I’ve met many British authors over the years and they’re all funny as hell in person, especially the ones who’ve worked in government.
I wish. I had the misfortune to be stuck in Italy at the time
And the one before that, well, I wasn’t allowed because I was in high school and still had to listen to adults.
Hehe C2 was during my senior year. Frak it was Star Wars and in my backyard, so it was without question that I was going. For C3 it was a mad dash of using savings and selling crap on ebay to scrape the money together to go and have some spending cash. Worth every penny.
Although, I wouldn’t mind being stuck in Italy. That’s one country on my to visit someday list.
It was really cool. We got to hear all sorts of little stories, my favorite being how a name check on Penny Arcade last week got her personal site so inundated with hits that it literally killed a server.
We only had 2 Troopers last night but the group was so small that anymore would have seemed too much. I think we had maybe 15 people there last night.