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Earlier today at New York Comic Con, Lucasfilm hosted a special panel focused on their upcoming books and comics. The panel was moderated by Michael Siglain, the creative director of Lucasfilm publishing, and featured eleven authors who had written Star Wars books and comics. The authors discussed their history with Star Wars and shared some behind the scenes stories about working on Star Wars. Below are my tweets from the panel.
Ben Blacker, co-writer of the Join the Resistance young readers books and the upcoming Marvel comics one-shot tie-in to The Last Jedi, titled Storms of Crait,
Ben Blacker on Storms of Crait: It felt like we were home. We got to write, Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, and Wedge #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Christian Blauvelt author of Star Wars Made Easy from DK Publishing,Ben Blacker says he desbribed a scene for his artist where Wedge is "covered in blood none of it his" and that he is in "berserker mode"— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Delilah S. Dawson, author Star Wars: Phasma,Blauvelt says writing SW Made Easy was fun because he got to be the guide to #StarWars for newcomers to the saga #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Dawson says you can find the soundtrack of what she listened to while writing Phasma on Spotify (mostly SW and Fury Road tracks!) #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Drew Daywalt, author of the kids book BB-8 on the Run, ,Dawson says she really didn't want to kill off one her main characters, but knew that Phasma had to #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Drew Daywalt says the transition from writing horror to kids books about BB8 wasn't that tough because they both tap into childhood emotions— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Jason Fry, author of the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi novelization,Michael Siglain (LFL publishing) deacribes BB-8 On The Run as being "authentic to Star Wars" rather than "canon" #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Claudia Gray, author of Star Wars: Lost Stars, Bloodline, and Leia: Princess of Alderaan,Jason Fry says he grateful and lucky he gets to write all different types of #StarWars books (novels, cross-sections, etc.) #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Clausia Gray says writing Leia Princess of Alderaan after Bloodline was a unique experience she was telling Leia's story backwards #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Gray: PoA features a Leia who hasn't had to send people to die. She still has an optimism that she is beginning to loose in Bloodline #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
John Jackson Miller, author of Star Wars: A New Dawn and one of the stories in the upcoming short story collection Star Wars: Canto Bight,Gray also says she was really excited to explore Breha Organa because she had not really been explored in other fiction before #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
JJM Says Canto Bight is the place in the galaxy where people go to escape the problems of the rest of the galaxy. #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Daniel Jose Older, one of the contributors to Star Wars: From A Certain Point of View,JJM sayas all the stories in the Canto Bight book are interconnected in small ways. Says his is about a character who is a card counter— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Daniel Jose Older says he was obsessed with Dewbacks as a kid #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Cavan Scott, author of Star Wars: Wild Space and one of the contributors to Star Wars: Adventures from IDW publishing,Which is why his story in FACPOV is about a stormtrooper who is obsessed with Dewbacks!— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Cavan Scott says the grandson of the heroes of Wild Space is the narrator in SW: Adventures #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Charles Soule, writer of the Poe Dameron and Darth Vader comic book series for Marvel,Cavan Scott say his first #StarWars memory was getting an Obi-Wan figure and not knowing who he was. Found out by reading SW comics— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Charles Soule says the biggest challenge about writing the Vader comic was understanding the monster that is Darth Vader #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Elizabeth Wein, author of the upcoming The Last Jedi tie-in junior novel Cobalt Squadron,Charles Soule has left the panel early to go meet Mark Hamill! #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Timothy Zahn, author of Star Wars: Heir to the Empire and Star Wars: Thrawn,Wein says it was really fun to wrote about Bomber Pilots in Cobalt Squadron! Says she was inarticulate with joy when she got the gig #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Zahn says biggest difference between writing SW in the early 90s and now is that nobody knew back then that there was any interest #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Says coming back to Thrawn is "like coming back to an old friend." #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Siglain later asked the authors what books they would like to see (not necessarily write) in the future,
Daniel Jose Older: Revenge of the Dewback— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Tim Zahn says he wants to see a story about Boba trying get Han to Tatooine after ESB with every other bounty hunter trying to steal Han— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Then to conclude, there were several announcements of upcoming books including a sequel to Star Wars: Thrawn by Timothy Zahn,Claudia Gray says she eally wants to read about Kylo Ren's fall— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Delilah S Dawson wants to know what really happened to those Bothans
— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Star Wars: Maker Lab from DK is coming next year. Brings STEM activities to kids with SW #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
5-issue Forces Of Destiny miniseries coming next year from IDW! #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Thrawn sequel by Tim Zahn announced! Title will be "Alliances". Vader will be featured in it! Coming next summer! #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Also coming next year, kids book called "Are You Afraid of Darth Vader" by Adam Rex #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Delilah S Dawson and Michale Siglain hint at another "top secret" project in the works! #NYCC #StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
Make sure you're following @TheSWU on Instagram and TwitterIt's a wrap on the LFL Publishing panel from #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 6, 2017
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