I'm not in the contract negotiation end of things here, but I imagine Random House Audio picked up DEATH TROOPERS because of all the internet exposure the cover received.

Thank you again Sue.

I was thinking along similar lines that it was because Death Troopers would appeal to a larger market, ie SW fans sw well as horror fans, than the more 'traditional' SW novel.

Is there any talks with any current or previous publisher to publish books in an electronic format? I've purchased several short stories on the Sony site, but would love to get current texts on my Kindle. I love the idea of reading futuristic fiction like Star Wars on the reading devices of the future.

I don't know about this yet. I know the books are available for download now, but I don't know what formats they're in. You might check the Random House site.

Also, have you ever used a Kindle or Sony Reader?

No -- Now, if they had a Reader that would allow me to edit manuscripts on it.... yeah, I might go for that. But just for reading? It's a bit out of my price range. Maybe if I traveled more....

Previously I believe that you mentioned that Mr Lucas doesn't stay involved with the EU texts. Do you happen to know what any of his reading interests are?

No, I don't know anything about George's personal life -- and if I did, I'd keep it to myself anyway.

What types of books do you read when you aren't editing Star Wars texts?

I try not to get into personal stuff here....

Especially since, when you watch the original CW series' DVD documentaries, Lucas had involvement in that series, too. And says things like (and I'm paraphrasing here) "Now we get to explore all those war stories in this era". So, at the time, it seems to me Lucas intended THAT to be "the definitive Clone Wars". Either Lucas changed his mind or he just considers both series to be valid stories set in the CW era.

I'm praying for the latter....

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Whereas the new material is subtitled "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" - movie, TV series, novels, comics & videogames. It appears to me that the innocuous inclusion of the definite article `+the+' in the sub-title was perhaps a considered attempt at demarcating the two periods into canon and apocryphal stories, maybe those that supported Lucas' ideal of the CW events and those that didn't.
Thus we have Star Wars: Clone Wars and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Man, I agree with you Mira. I don't really want an all encompassing clone wars tiemline cause the bottom line not evrything is going to fix. The previous clone wars stuff was pretty good, and this one ain't abd. I'll keep them seperate cause the style, pacing, and art is way different than what we are getting now. Anakin and Ben in this new cartoon series aren't nearly as powerful force wise as in the comic books, cartoon, and LOE novel. In the LOE he broguht the house down, yet in the animated series he could barely lift Dooku when he was about to fall from the cliff or single handled take down those bounty hunters.

*> To be honest, I've NEVER seen a hardback that wasn't

I think you may have just made my point for me? Not sure though.

Look like I will he having my copy shipped across the ocean then, I don't do hardcovers.

I'm content with my hardcover

See, I'm the reverse. I'm not a paperback hunter that is content with hardcover as a less preferred, but faster option. I'm someone who tries to get the first printings in hardcover on each novel as it comes out. My wallet would hate to see all of the books in hardback, but when I have the choice, I pick up the hardback if it's SW.

Two brief anecdotes:

1. About two years ago, I finally completed my SW novel hardback collection by finding first hardback prints of ESB and ROTJ, first paperback prints of the Lando and Han Adventures (as single books, so six books total), and a first book club hardback (though not original first hardback) of ANH. I was elated.

2. In 1992, I purchased Dark Force Rising at the age of twelve. At the same time, I picked up Heir to the Empire in paperback. Given that the money was from a combination of allowance and, I believe, my dad picking up the paperback for me, I was happy to simply have the books. Years later, it always bothered me that I had every Bantam (then second era of Del Rey) SW novel that first hit hardback in hardback on my shelf . . . except HTTE. In 1999, in one of the most thoughtful gifts a significant other has given me, my then-girlfriend hunted down a first print hardback in mint condition of the novel to complete that era of my collection. She's long gone (and in all but the gift, good riddance), but the novel remains.

Now, if only I could make ALL of the books fit into a smaller space. I'm on my fourth almost-full book tower, just for SW . . .

Is there any talks with any current or previous publisher to publish books in an electronic format?

A large bunch of SW novels have been released as eBooks, but I don't know if they work for Kindle or the Sony Reader.

"That is a little odd. I could understand with the TPBs, but there's been no precedent for a novel not coming out in paperback before."

Outside of SW, which had never done TPB format before, there are many novels that only even appeared in TPB format. There's mass market paperback, trade paperback, and hardcover. For whatever reason the choice has been made to keep TCW novel(s) as TPB only, it seems strange, but it's not without precedent in publishing.

Joel Shepherd's excellent Cassandra Kresnov novels were just announced as being Pyr books first attempt at entering the MMPB market after being TPB's. Not all publishers even bother with MMPB, believe it or not. Some publishers only release in HC or TPB. I wish it were different, but that's how it goes sometimes, and MMPB's are almost the cost of TPB's now! EDIT: I only just now realized that the first TCW novel was a HC! Oops! Apologies! It is weird that it won't even be a TPB.