StarWars.com: You’re well known for years of amazing storytelling in the Star Wars galaxy, particularly for young readers. And while you’ve had a hand in some memorable older audience work, like the From a Certain Point of View short stories and the Dooku: Jedi Lost audio drama, The Rising Storm is your first adult Star Wars novel. How is your approach to a project like this different from some of your previous work?
Cavan Scott: Well, it’s interesting because I do switch from younger reader to adult novels in other franchises and also my own work, as well. And so, I always approach the story the same way. A story is a story, no matter who you’re trying to tell it to. The difference is, obviously, the gaze it’s going through. So, when I was thinking about the story, when I was planning what would happen, how it would work, the actual storytelling mechanics were very similar to what I would do anyway. Obviously, you have a little bit more freedom when you’re writing for an adult audience and dealing with some of the more darker areas of the story. And in this story, there are quite a lot of dark areas. For people who only know me for my Star Wars work, it’s probably the darkest thing they’ll have read of mine, which might be a shock. But yeah, 
obviously with a book for an adult audience, you can really tackle things that you wouldn’t, and you shouldn’t, tackle for a middle-grade audience, for example. And it gives you a chance to really delve into the consequences of the action that you see. Because a lot of the time in Star Wars, when you’re writing for younger readers, it’s excitement, it’s thrilling chases, it’s all the things we expect from Star Wars, but the pace just keeps going and going and going, and you don’t really — actually you do deal with the consequences of it, but you obviously do it in a way that’s not going to traumatize any of your readers. I think it’s important with kids to show them there are consequences for actions, especially when you’re dealing with situations when there is violence and there is peril. But yeah, obviously you can get into those consequences in more detail with an adult novel.
