A few months ago, it was announced online that my next Star Wars book would be called Star Wars: Black Orchid. This past week I discovered that Amazon is listing my next Star Wars book as Star Wars: Red Harvest.
So what gives?
First of all, let me say that I'm fine with both titles. Black Orchid was the one that my editor came up with, and I thought it was dandy -- it sounded dark and noirish to me, and it didn't really sound your standard Star Wars title. Plus, I'm a big fan of the movie Adaptation. In retrospect, though, it might have been a little too unconventional, because the concern arose that people might think it was a romance novel. What with all the flowers, and everything.
So when Del Rey got back to me and asked for suggestions, I tossed out a whole list of options, including Red Harvest. And that didn't sound noir-y at all.
And plus, nobody's ever used it before, as far as I know.
Uh, yeah. So anyway. I hope you like the new title, but more importantly, I hope you'll like the book. It's coming out early next year.
And it might even still be called Red Harvest.
We'll see.
4 comments:
Joe whatever this book will be called it will still rock... when i first read death troopers... knowing star wars it wouldnt be scary... but as i am 12 i picked it up read it through and was like "That was bloody creepy" Scaring me is a hard thing to do.
Thank you so much for making me look at star wars a whole new way.
And of course for writing that awesome book.
Yours Scincerely
Samuel mclean.. (AKA) Your newest fan
Isn't BLUE HARVEST the obvious choice, or did Family Guy poison that well?
Well, Blue Harvest has naturally humorous, or I've always thought so. It sounds so silly, and was used to encourage disinterest in RotJ, right? But Red Harvest is good. Red implies blood, and Harvest implies a reaper. Nice scary imagery.
Red Harvest was also the tag-line for Joseph McCarthy's 1952 reelection campaign, so you might be able to get some sweet vintage buttons for marketing purposes...
It's an excellent title, though. It packs a great visceral (and visual) punch—and D-Hamm isn't bad company to keep! Is there a release date yet?
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