To prepare, she had re-watched Star Wars films, episodes of Clone Wars and animated series. On the day I spoke with her, she already was revising the first draft of her Obi-Wan Kenobi Padawan book. “I’m lucky to have married into San Diego,” she says. Next on the horror horizon is her second adult book, the plot of which is simmering in the back of her active mind.īorn in Utah in 1983, White moved to San Diego because her husband enrolled in law school here, and she isn’t about to budge. 7, to sign copies of “The Excalibur Curse.”
White’s next public appearance in San Diego will be at the Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in the Midway District on Dec. She laughingly tells her agent to let her know only if something is actually happening or if a check is coming.
I cannot get you a role.”īut White is not holding her breath, as many TV options remain just that and, without money and backing, don’t materialize into shows. She keeps fans updated on social media where, with her characteristic humor, she cautioned them: “Please note: I will never have a say in any casting. Her 2018 young adult novel, “The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein,” winner of the prestigious Bram Stoker award, has been optioned by Sony Pictures TV. That’s why she is diversifying from the young adult niche that characterized her “And I Darken” trilogy, her “Slayer” series and “The Camelot Rising Trilogy.” “My goal always has been to have writing be part of the rest of my life,” White says. Plus, she is launching a book series aimed at middle-grade kids, ages 8 to 12: “Sinister Summer: Fathoms of Fear,” also published by Delacorte and set to debut next June. She excitedly awaits publication next May of her first adult novel, “Hide,” a hide-and-seek horror story set in an abandoned amusement park. White’s book, “The Excalibur Curse,” her conclusion to a fantasy trilogy featuring a powerfully re-imagined version of Camelot’s Guinevere, is due to be released by Delacorte Press in December. It’s not like she didn’t have a lot of great projects in the works. She was sworn to secrecy until the official announcement four months later. But White couldn’t tell anyone what she was screaming about. I never even considered him a possibility. “I could never have imagined they’d give me Obi-Wan. Pick me,” she recalls pleading.īut she had moved on her novel journey with no idea the seed she had planted still was germinating - until she was contacted last June, that is. She had offered her writing skills to the Star Wars folks 3½ years ago. White, a Carlsbad resident and mother of three, already had become a New York Times best-selling author of young adult fantasy and paranormal-themed novels and appeared regularly on Comic-Con panels.
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