{"id":4243,"date":"2015-09-07T16:28:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T20:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2015-09-07T16:31:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T20:31:02","slug":"star-wars-cecil-princess-leia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/star-wars-cecil-princess-leia\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars, Cecil, and Princess Leia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781484724972?aff=misscecil09\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/517-Z0Wk6nL._SX319_BO1204203200_.jpg\" alt=\"517-Z0Wk6nL._SX319_BO1,204,203,200_\" width=\"200\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/517-Z0Wk6nL._SX319_BO1204203200_.jpg 321w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/517-Z0Wk6nL._SX319_BO1204203200_-300x466.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/517-Z0Wk6nL._SX319_BO1204203200_-250x389.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>You may have noticed the latest new craze for all things <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/films\/star-wars-episode-vii-the-force-awakens\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars<\/a> which launched with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/09\/new-star-wars-toys-blow-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">Force Friday<\/a> last week. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a fun fact. \u00a0My friend <a href=\"https:\/\/castellucci.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cecil Castellucci<\/a> was tapped to co-write (with <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonfry.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Fry<\/a>)\u00a0the Princess Leia book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781484724972?aff=misscecil09\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Moving Target<\/em><\/a> because Cecil is both a great YA science fiction writer and a huge Star Wars fan.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4244\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781250057006\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4244\" class=\"wp-image-4244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-on-9-7-15-at-3.48-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Photo on 9-7-15 at 3.48 PM\" width=\"270\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-on-9-7-15-at-3.48-PM.jpg 813w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-on-9-7-15-at-3.48-PM-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-on-9-7-15-at-3.48-PM-450x395.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Photo-on-9-7-15-at-3.48-PM-250x220.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s true: I have an R2-D2 Lego piece.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been delighted to see Cecil in the spotlight. \u00a0Aside from <em>Moving Target<\/em>, Cecil has published a recent space-faring duology that begins with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781250057006\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tin Star<\/em><\/a>, the story of indomitable\u00a0Tula Bane, who is left for dead on a remote space station. Tula is the only human among aliens, and her story of survival is the sort that Princess Leia would admire. Astute readers will enjoy the way Cecil tips her hat to the film <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casablanca_(film)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Casablanca<\/em><\/a>. If you like stories of space adventures, you might want to check out Cecil\u2019s inspiring, award-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/castellucci.wordpress.com\/arts-stuff\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\">books<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed the latest new craze for all things Star Wars which launched with Force Friday last week. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a fun fact. \u00a0My friend Cecil Castellucci was tapped to co-write (with Jason Fry)\u00a0the Princess Leia book Moving Target because Cecil is both a great YA science fiction writer and a huge Star Wars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[705],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-cecil-castellucci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4250,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}