In an unexpected and unplanned turn of questioning today at Star Wars Celebration's Del Rey Books panel, head of Lucasfilm Publishing Jennifer Heddle revealed that a new kids book about Leia entitled Rebel to Leader is under development.
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Showing posts with label Jennifer Heddle. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 20, 2016
'Star Wars: Ahsoka' Hits #1 on The New York Times Best Sellers List
Congratulations are in order for Star Wars author E. K. Johnston, whose novel Star Wars: Ahsoka hit #1 on The New York Times Best Sellers list in the Young Adult Hardcover and Young Adult E-Book categories. The novel, which was released on October 11th, tells the story of Ahsoka Tano between her appearances on the animated series' Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. The novel was Johnston's first in the Star Wars universe.
Monday, October 10, 2016
Video: "Star Wars Presents: A Writers Roundtable Panel | New York Comic Con 2016"
By: Dominic Jones
This past weekend at New York Comic Con, a group of Star Wars authors gathered for a very special panel discussion about writing for a galaxy far, far away. The panel included Timothy Zahn (Heir to the Empire, Star Wars: Thrawn), Chuck Wendig (Aftermath, Aftermath: Life Debt), Charles Soule (Marvel's Poe Dameron), James Luceno (Star Wars: Tarkin, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel) E. K. Johnston (Star Wars: Ahsoka), and Kieron Gillen (Marvel's Darth Vader, Star Wars: Classified). It was moderated by Lucasfilm's senior editor Jennifer Heddle and featured announcements from creative director of Lucasfilm publishing Michael Siglain. Check out the video below,
Friday, October 7, 2016
NYCC Panel Recap: Star Wars Presents: A Writers Roundtable
Today was a big day for Star Wars at New York Comic Con due to an incredible panel assembled by Lucasfilm there this afternoon. Titled "Star Wars Presents: A Writers Roundtable", the panel featured some of the biggest names in Star Wars literature, including Timothy Zahn(Thrawn), Jim Luceno(Catalyst), Chuck Wendig (Aftermath, Life Debt), E.K. Johnston (Ahsoka) and Charles Soule (Lando, Obi-Wan & Anakin, Poe Dameron). The panel was moderated by Lucasfilm's Jennifer Heddle and Michael Siglain and featured tons of interesting discussion points, and even a few awesome announcements. Our reporters Chris Seekell and Dominic Jones were there to report back on all the most intriguing nuggets of info that were dropped. You can see all their work below:
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
StarWars.com Reveals Details About 'Star Wars: Bloodline'
Hype is building for the next new novel Star Wars: Bloodline. Claudia Gray, who authored the critically acclaimed Star Wars: Lost Stars, will pen this new book which is said to focus on the exploits of Leia Organa six years prior to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Last week we exclusively revealed a plethora of information about the book which you can read here. Today, Lucasfilm's senior editor Jennifer Heddle wrote a piece on StarWars.com detailing "8 reasons Star Wars: Bloodline will be essential reading". In it, she gives us some further details about story, including the fact that Star Wars: Episode VIII writer and director Rian Johnson had input on the novel. In addition, the book will uncover the political climate of the Galaxy prior to the First Order's rise to power, as well as how the Resistance came to be. It's also worth noting that Han Solo will be a secondary character in the novel and they also tease "huge revelations" in regards to Darth Vader. Be sure to head over to StarWars.com to check out all eight points!
Star Wars: Bloodline will be available everywhere books are sold on May 3rd!
Source: StarWars.com
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
'Star Wars Aftermath' Cover Revealed, To Be First of a Trilogy of Novels
By: Dominic Jones
Last week Lucasfilm announced a new novel coming from Del Rey Publishing titled Star Wars: Aftermath that would be part of the "Journey to The Force Awakens" line of books and comics coming from various publishers. After that we learned that Aftermath would be written by Chuck Wendig. Today, Jennifer Heddle, Senior Editor at Lucasbooks confirmed Wendig as the author, revealed the cover (below), and made one more revelation about the book. According to Heddle's blog post, "Aftermath will be the first book in a trilogy that begins to bridge the Star Wars timeline between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens."
About Aftermath's connections with The Force Awakens Heddle wrote,
"Obviously I wish I could tell you more about the story, but I can’t just
yet. What I can reveal is that you will be introduced to a sweeping new
cast of characters, along with a fan favorite from the films. And who
knows what other familiar faces will pop up along the way? And once
you’ve seen The Force Awakens in movie theaters, you may find that certain names and places in Aftermath have a relevance you never knew–so keep your eyes wide open!"
The big question now is, when is the next novel in this trilogy due for release? Aftermath is expected to hit shelves on September 4th, 2015 and some are pointing out that there is still one more release date Del Rey has claimed for a Star Wars book in November 2015 and that it could be a potential release date for the sequel. I have my doubts about that. It seems like a very fast turn around time, especially if Wendig is writing all three books (though it should be noted that it has never been sated that he will). It would however, make more sense if they aren't using trilogy in the traditional sense and meaning something more along the lines three novels set in this era that are loosely connected.
Regardless, I can't wait to pick up Star Wars: Aftermath when it comes out on September 4th, 2015.
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