OT: Amazons.co.uk/.jp/.de say S&S is doing Star Wars too

[Anubis]

I shall have to consider those. My boss also recommended the Republic Commando books.

 

[Smiley]

Of the Republic Commando books, Hard Contact, which is the first one, is the best. The other two may appeal to you if you a die-hard fan of Omega Squad, Delta Squad, and the Mandalorian and clone cultures.

 

[captcalhoun]

RC NOVELZ RULEZ0R!!!!!!!!11!!!!1

 

[RonG]

sounds iffy to me. Del Rey is supposedly turning a profit on their Star Wars series, with the tie ins to the prequel trilogy, NJO and LotF series. Why would Lucasfilm mess with that?

 

[Brynthe2]

Someone jumped the gun a bit with that story, theforce.net has an update on it, basically stating that Carrie Fisher is merely doing a behind the scenes book from her point of view, but that it won't have anything to do with the future of the SW books.
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UPDATE: well, it seems that caution was the right reaction, and whatever this is, it's probably nothing to do with the upcoming renewal of the novel license.

Various people over in the message-board thread have linked this to a book that Carrie Fisher has been writing for a couple of years, based on the diaries she kept during the making of the films.

I was holding off on an update until I could confirm the connection, but in the meantime, Sue Rostoni from LucasBooks, has posted over in the StarWars.com forums. She's confirmed that it's not a Star Wars novel, nor are S&S getting the license for the new novels.

So it's probably a memoir or semi-autobiographical novel by Carrie, based around her experiences filming Star Wars. Still relatively big news, then, but not entirely new news -- and by the look of things, this book's been pushed back more than once already, and may be delayed again in future....

 

[JD]

Ok, my bad then. I did realize after I made the original post that it was probably just a mistake, but by that time it was too late to take it back.