New York Times bestselling author Aaron Allston is best known for novels set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. He has also written original science fiction, fantasy, and horror, role-playing games, and screenplays. With colleague Michael A. Stackpole, he has for several years presented the Inner Circle Writers’ Seminars, a series of advanced-technique writing lectures designed to help beginning writers shave years of effort (and associated frustration) off their efforts to become published authors.