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Disney Publishing, Del Rey Doing New Star Wars Novels
Disney Publishing Worldwide and Del Rey Books are teaming up to do a new line of Sta Wars adult fiction novels. The publishers will be working directly with brand creator, Lucasfilm.There are, according to Del Rey parent, Random House, over 75 million Star Wars books in print–the first tie-in novel, Star Wars: A New Hope, was released by Del Rey in 1976–and the titles, RH added, “consistently rank on theNew York Times bestseller lists.” Del Rey licenses the Star War titles from Disney Pubnlishing, parent company of Lucasfilm. The new books from Disney and Del Rey will be closely tied to the new Star Wars storylines being created for the forthcoming films…
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Disney Publishing 4 New Star Wars Books
Lucasfilm announced today, via Publishers Weekly, four brand new books aimed at introducing new readers to the classic Star Wars saga by bridging the “multi-arc storyline in anticipation of the release of Star Wars Episode VII in December 2015.” The first of these four books, The Adventures of Luke Skywalker, is being written by the author of the Spiderwick Chronicles, Tony DiTerlizzi and is being illustrated using Ralph McQuarrie’s original paintings from the pre-production of the first three Star Wars films. Incidentally, those paintings are also the basis for the visual look of the upcoming animated series Star Wars: Rebels. The rest of the books are adaptations of Episodes IV-VI,…