Arriving 21st October from author Kwame Mbalia this is The Last Order, his debut Star Wars novel that started life as a Tweet that was spotted by Lucasfilm and eventually ended up developing itno a full blown, post-The Rise of Skywalker novel featuring Finn and Jannah.
“”My agents would yell at me because back when Twitter was tweets, I would just tweet out story ideas. I would just tweet them out. I’d be like, ‘Hey, what if this happened? What if we did this, that, and the third?’ So, I want to say it was on the way to Episode 9, so it hadn’t released yet, but we had all of these incredible photos and videos and teasers, and I would see Finn and Jannah, and we learned who they were, and I tweeted, ‘We need a Finn and Jannah backstory as the two stormtroopers who fled, who left, who turned to the Rebellion, and then joined forces!’ It’s like, ‘No, we need their backstory.’
So, I tweeted the version of that out, and it was up for, I want to say, a year and a half. Then I deleted it, one, because my agent was like, ‘Kwame, you’ve got to save your story ideas for you,’ and two, because Star Wars reached out and wanted to do a story, and I was like, ‘Oh, I want to do this. I want to pitch this story so badly.’ I think I have a printout of it somewhere in my desk. I printed it out as evidence that I did tweet this.”
