Not sure if there’s a better thread for this, but author John David Wolverton, aka David Farland or Dave Wolverton, is currently in the hospital - presumably with a life-threatening illness. I saw this via the Wookieepedia twitter page.

John did a LOT of writing for Star Wars from the mid 90s to early 00s, including The Courtship of Princess Leia and several short stories for the Tales of books, as well as The Rising Force and The Hidden Past in the Jedi Apprentice series.

May the Force be with him.