Christie Golden

Warcraft. Starcraft. Star Wars. Star Trek. Christie Golden has written for all of them. As if that were not accomplishment enough, she has also contributed novels to the gaming and movie universes of HALO, Invasion America, Fable, Hex, Dungons and Dragons, Ravenloft, and Assassin’s Creed. The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers recently presented Christie with the 2017 Faust Award for the literary thrills she has provided to numerous fanbases over the past quarter century. She has written several short stories and fifty novels, eight of which have landed on the New York Times' bestseller list. In addition, she found the time to write original fiction as well.

Christie will be premiering World of Warcraft: Before the Storm, an all-new, official prequel novel to The Battle for Azeroth, Blizzard Entertainment's next expansion to the critically acclaimed World of Warcraft. As the Alliance and the Horde struggle to recover from the devastating war with the demonic Burning Legion, a terrible discovery will test both Anduin Wrynn, king of Stormwind, and Sylvanas Windrunner, warchief of the Horde - threatening to reignite the bitter enmity between their factions and shake the very foundations of the world of Azeroth.