@Joseph Terzieva Initially I came up with the story (very bare bones, it basically only had a beginning and an end) in an effort to fill a void that had been left by a lack of Star Wars (this was in 2009). Very early on it was even a Star Wars story in the vein of what the "anthology" films are going to be now, but I moved away from that soon after.
The idea of actually writing the novel didn’t come about until about the middle of 2014 when, after many failed attempts at creating it (comics, animation, scripts), I realised that a book was its best option.
The more personal reason behind doing it is that I wanted to be able to actually achieve something on this scale. I was sick right out of high school and have spent the last 10 years unemployed and virtually on my own with very little in the way of ’grand achievements’ to my name. So in part I’m looking at this book as a first step to making something of myself.
