Dark Disciple

"Ventress had become one of the most interesting characters&hellip; we had all this material, we had all these designs&hellip; This is based on scripts we had written with George Lucas&hellip; I'm super excited about this book."

- Dave Filoni

Dark Disciple is an upcoming novel starring Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos, which will be written by Christie Golden for release by Del Rey on July 7, 2015. The novel is part of The Clone Wars Legacy multimedia initiative, since it will be based on scripts that were written for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series; the scripts were not produced as episodes prior to the show's cancellation. The novel will skew toward adult readers.

Development
The novel was first announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2014, in Del Rey's Star Wars panel that prominently featured the novel A New Dawn. The author was announced as Christie Golden, who will adapt scripts written with George Lucas for what would have been the seventh season of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series prior to its cancellation. According to Jennifer Heddle, the novel will skew toward adult audiences, with Pablo Hidalgo noting that the novel can explore the characters in deeper ways than the television series was able to. The first illustration for the novel was developed as conceptual art for the animated series.

On September 25, 2014, StarWars.com launched a new section dedicated to what was termed as The Clone Wars Legacy, a multimedia project to release other unproduced The Clone Wars scripts in various mediums. The site revealed the title of Golden's novel as Dark Disciple and also contained a gallery featuring concept art from the story arc. According to Del Rey editor Erich Schoeneweiss, Dark Disciple will be published in July 2015. Amazon.com listed the novel's release date as July 7.

StarWars.com unveiled Matt Taylor's cover art for the novel on December 9, 2014.