The Hello, welcome to the Force Cast Author series. I'm your host Steve Dunk from the Force

dot net and everything is canon podcast. Thanks for tuning in. On this show we'll have a

spoiler-laden chat with authors from you guessed at the world of Star Wars, books, novels,

comic books, RPGs, even video games. They wrote something for Star Wars we

want to talk to them. If there's an author you'd like to see on the show

email me at Steve at the Force dot net and I'll do my absolute best to

accommodate even if there's a topic you'd like to see discussed email me that as well

so let's get going and have a chat with today's guest who really in the world of

Star Wars publishing

doesn't need any sort of introduction, Ms Claudia Gray. The reason I invited Ms Gray

onto the show was simple. When I looked back at the year there's one novel that stood out

for me amongst all the rest, a master and apprentice.

I just couldn't shake it. Anytime I started to think about which book would ultimately

land atop my year-end list, that one kept coming back to me time and time again.

So I thought, why fight it? And who better to discuss? That one kept coming back to me time and time again.

So I thought, why fight it?

And who better to discuss this with than the author?

So let's welcome Claudia to the show.

Hi, everybody.

Welcome to the Forecast Authors series.

I'm your host, of course, Steve Dunk.

And as we approach the end of the calendar year

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