Christie Golden

Christie Golden is an award-winning author of many science fiction and fantasy novels, and is one of the authors for the Fate of the Jedi series. She also wrote the canon novels Dark Disciple and Battlefront II: Inferno Squad.

Outside of Star Wars, she has written books for World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Assassin's Creed, Star Trek: Voyager, HEX: Shards of Fate, and the Ravenloft and Forgotten Realms campaign settings of Dungeons & Dragons. She also wrote the novelizations for the film adaptations of Warcraft, Assassin's Creed, and Valerian & The City of A Thousand Planets. She also wrote her own book series Invasion America and a standalone novels including Instruments of Fate, King's Man and Thief, and A.D. 999.

Biography

Christie Golden was born on November 21, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia. At thirteen years of age, Golden would spend entire afternoons watching Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.

Golden worked as one of the three authors in the nine-book Fate of the Jedi series. Her first entry into both the series and into the Expanded Universe in general, Fate of the Jedi: Omen, reached #4 on the New York Times bestseller list and #3 on the Publisher's Weekly bestseller list. Golden also wrote a short story prequel to Omen that focuses on Vestara Khai. The short story was exclusive to Hyperspace members, and is titled Imprint.

Golden was to write a Star Wars trilogy focusing on Jaina Solo Fel and her husband Jagged Fel called Sword of the Jedi. The series was canceled indefinitely due to the announcement from Disney Publishing Worldwide and Random House about the relaunch of the Star Wars adult novel continuity. Following the reorganization of the canon structure under Disney, Golden returned to write the novel Dark Disciple, a story focused on Quinlan Vos and Asajj Ventress towards the end of the Clone Wars.

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