Not trying to be disrespectful, but what's in it for fans like me who have been supporting Star Wars for 30 years? I understand you want to reach new readers and maybe give them a little incentive to pick up your product, but it's just the same with action figure collecting where Hasbro releases another Darth Vader every year. They have to look after new customers as well as veterans,but you end up with 40 different Vaders if you're a completionist. Is there no way to give a true fan something extra for spending 26 dollars on a new product instead of waiting a year for the paperback, missing out on story line in the meantime? Is it wrong for me to feel a little taken advantage of if your main focus is to attract new readers and not worry about us that you've already won over?

"Leia's backstory- It doesn't have to be the whole thing, but the time when she was a senator/spy/active in the Rebel Alliance is begging for a novel."

Ann Crispin writes that she wanted to do this, but was refused permission. Apparently LFL is saving that ground in case they want to do it for the TV series.

My wish list:

Leia's backstory- It doesn't have to be the whole thing, but the time when she was a senator/spy/active in the Rebel Alliance is begging for a novel.

Stand alone novels in the vain of Tatoonine Ghost and Surveror's Quest. Where you delve into a couple characters as they do missions.

Jude Watson doing a younger kid series with Jacen training Ben before LOTF. She rocks at this types of book and as an adult I even read them.

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I would like to see some Shaak Ti novels. She rocks. And a novel about Lumiya would be nice too.

Is this a suggestion thread or a wish list thread? Cause if it were a wish list, #1 on that list would be JAINA/JAG!!!!!!!

• Infinities novelizations - have full length AU novels as opposed to just the comics. I want to read about a post-LOTF era where Anakin Solo survived the NJO, for example.
• More about DROIDS, what's canon and what's Infinities about the cartoon? I loved watching that, as well as EWOKS (although DROIDS was preferable).
• Tales From/Of The New Jedi Order, perhaps? More short stories anthologies would be nice, as I greatly enjoyed all the Tales From? books from the Bantam era.
• Kyle Katarn - anything, please? novelization of Dark Forces? What he did between DF1 and JK1? what happened between JK:JA and NJO? Did he eventually marry Jan Ors or not?
• More Clone Wars novels, with Obi Wan
• Pellaeon and Piett, anything interesting happen to them before we first encountered them?

I'd like to see more but that's all I can think of at the moment?

I too wish that the series had provided a larger role for Tenel Ka. Her situation on Hapes along with her loyalty pretty much kept her there. She's had a large impact and not as much screen time.

At least Troy Denning seems to include her in almost all of his novels and does a very good job at getting into her head. Hopefully we see more of her in the future.

That was general, now about ideas
By my book wish list:

• Lando and Taanab staff
• Dooku his intigues and his fall
• Han (and Leia) getting old (something like Tatoone Ghost, but 40 years later, similar to Old Man and the See ;))
• Duloks vs Ewoks
• another Darth Maul novel
• something about of Naboo in Empire: Jar Jar, Panaka, the Naberrie family
• some hutt staff like AC Crispin trilogy (bring her back :D)

And I really would like to know, how do you handle with tv series books

On a related note to TheSithEmpire's request (which I of course echo), I have a question I've been meaning to ask. Has Lucasfilm ever thought about looking to authors of historical novels as potential sources of new blood? Given the richness of the EU, and the research needed to exploit that richness for the greatest benefit, I would think that authors already experienced with that sort of research might have something to offer Star Wars readers.

Sue wrote: "So. If you want to post what you'd like to see without adding story plot points, etc., I'll jot it down, but I don't have time to respond to each question."

Simply this: Any era or subject is fine with me. The only caveat I have is that the authors hired are ones willing to get their hands dirty to do research in the EU. We've seen some great recent examples in Traviss, Stover, Luceno, Allston, Watson and Denning. In the past, we had the wonderful Ann Crispin (who's EU research was outstanding!) The expanded universe is amazingly interwoven at this point, but not impervious to harm. Authors who only care about carving their own niche in the saga damage and blemish that framework, and thus should be avoided.

On a similarly related note, I think that unless video games are going to be multimedia events where the story is deftly woven into the rest of the EU, the creators should just be allowed to envision whatever they want for game purposes under the Infinities label.