Book 7. Darth Tyrannus - Sean Stewart would be an amazing author for this one. It would be fascinating to see more of Dooku while he was still a jedi, his leaving the order, falling in with Palpatine, dealings with Sifo-Diyas and the Kaminoans, organizing the Confederacy... This doesn't have to contain stuff to contradict the Clone Wars cartoon because all of it is in the past leading up to AOTC.

What do you think?

Hey Sue!

Just want to compliment you on how cool it is that you make such an effort to keep fans in the loop. Thanks for being so generous with your time.

Is there any chance of getting Sean Stewart to do any more novel work for you? Dark Rendezvous was such an amazing book. It's a shame for that to be the only Star Wars book he's done.

Also, what's up with James Luceno? He is WAY too good of a Star Wars author to not be doing any more novels. I was so disappointed when I heard he was not given the green light to do the Darth Plagueis novel...

Lastly, I have an idea that I think would be pretty amazing for a series of novels. It could just be about villains. They could cover their origins, and everything that made them the individual they became when the audience first saw them.
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GL is already "rebooting" Star Wars "EU" via the Clone Wars.

JJ Abrams' rebooted Star Trek has made that moribund property interesting for the first time in decades. Think what a similar approach could do for the increasingly hidebound SW universe.

Have you guys ever thought of doing a reboot? (Please say no, please...)

Not only is there almost zero demand for something like that, they already have the perfect way to circumvent continuity with the Infinities logo. I've only read Infinities: A New Hope and it was epic! And some of the non-canon Tales are good too, but are almost always just there for humor.

But yeah, no reboots!

*Even though it's a HP fanfic, I, not Rowling, own all the components of the story which are not encompassed within Rowling's rights. *

All I can tell you is that my watching of a gazillion legal shows on TV has left me with the definite impression that people who engage in illegal ventures void any legal claims related to those ventures they would have had if it weren't illegal. Which makes tons of sense, BTW.

But near as I can see, copyright law doesn't make sense, so your retaining those legal rights isn't surprising. It apparently bends over backwards to protect people, to the point of impracticality. Which is fair enough. Then I know that, at least.

And frankly, the fact that it was illegal while offering legal rights was the small problem. What I wanted to know was how this legal discrepancy made sense in the big picture. I discovered it didn't.

Well, I wont be buying the hardcover edition, so it looks like I'll miss it altogether.

Yeah, and Jedi Dawn has a tentative release date of November 2012. That's about 4 years.

3 years and 10 months, if you want to be exact.

Even if it's received well after the fact, it's hard to reopen the storyline if it's been effectively closed.

Some feel that's exactly what happened with the Coruscant Nights series. In addition, the first three were released nearly all at once, but the fourth comes almost 4 years later?

Of course, there could have been issues with the authors preventing them from writing a fourth until now.

What about parodies or works (books, comics, movies) somehow connected with Star Wars like "Strange Case of Origami Yoda". How does then LFL policy work?

Parodies and satires are fine and not considered copyright infringement. The publishers of the Origami Yoda book contacted us and we gave it our okay. It's a fun story.

Sue, I understand LFL fanfic policy, it's quite obvious, but I have another similar question. What about parodies or works (books, comics, movies) somehow connected with Star Wars like "Strange Case of Origami Yoda". How does then LFL policy work?