Grosse Pointe Park Resident Authors Star Wars Novels

An attorney by trade, Paul Kemp also writes stories about the secondary characters from the popular Star Wars series.

New York Times best-selling novelist Paul S. Kemp would rather write Star Wars novels that feature minor characters rather than Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, the popular mainstays of the space opera franchise.  “When I signed a deal to do the Star Wars novels, I asked (the editors at Del Rey, which publishes the novels) to get them to allow me and tell a bit of a side story that doesn’t feature any of the main characters. Normally, what Del Rey does is they have a large meta-plot story going on that tends to center around the Skywalkers and Solos or their kids,” explained Kemp, 42, who lives in Grosse Pointe Park with his wife and 6-year-old twin sons. Using the minor characters gives the author plenty of creative freedom. To date, he has …

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