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I haven't been able to focus enough to read lately. I read a book this week but it was only 130 pages long.

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I went to a book sale my public library is having this weekend earlier today and found some treasures

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Oh nice

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Look at those treasures

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BehrItAll

OOOO Those are some nice treasures! Good job! Happy reading.

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At NYCC on Thursday I went to the panel Lucasfilm Publishing- Stories from a Galaxy Far, Far Away.



They spoke a little bit about Triple Force Friday and the new books that are out. Justina Ireland spoke about the graphic novel she wrote Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Spark of the Resistance. The artwork they showed by Phil Noto is beautiful, but I have no interest in this era set between Episodes 8 and 9. Justina Ireland did talk about the story being set on a new planet called Minfar and how they wouldn't let her use Ewoks so she created murder rabbits.


I am super excited about the The Thrawn Ascendency Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. It's a prequel series, so we get to see the Chiss Ascendency starting May 2020!


They actually gave out book one Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed at the end of the panel. That was super cool. I have been wanting to read it.


Dark Legends is much George Mann's other book about Star Wars Myths and Legends, only darker. The first story turns the Grand Inquisitor into Nosferatu who steals special children.


What also peaked my interest is a new comic series, Darth Vader #1 by Greg Pak. It's coming out February 2020. The way Pak explained it was that at the end of The Empire Strikes Back Vader is shook because Luke rejected him. He is so shaken up that he forgets to kill Admiral Piett. After killing all the officers the whole movie he just lets Piett live. Then in RotJ Vader is more chill and doesn't kill anyone. His journey is defined by loss and grief: his mother, Padmé and now Luke. So this comic series takes place between TESB and RotJ. Vader wants to find the people who hid the truth about Padmé's death and who hid Luke from him. He digs back into his past, visiting the Lars home on Tatooine, and trying to push back the part of Anakin that is still there.

All of that sounds right up my alley! So I think I'll be reading this series.


Zoraida Córdova said she is writing a Ventress story for this anthology.

Zoraida also spoke about her new book that is out, A Crash of Fate. When she was writing it she had not gone to Galaxy's Edge yet and so she was sent emails with secret pass codes to unlock the PDFs with the photos of what they were building so that she could describe the setting of Batu. Delilah Dawson, who also wrote a story set on Batu, called herself and Zoraida "Batu historians." Zoraida then went to Galaxy's Edge Orlando in the summer when it was 92 degrees, but it is so amazing there. The attention to detail makes it feel like you are not in Disney World but on another planet.


I have no idea how to explain Project Luminous because not even they revealed what it is. Just that it is super secret. But Claudia Gray's name is there and I like her writing.

Other highlights:

- Katie Cook spoke about drawing cutesy-fied Star Wars creatures and the challenge of making the mean ones cute.
- This was funny. I forgot to write down his name, but the one who does the Star Wars pop-up books talked about how he makes his elaborate pop-up books into a play set and how the AT-ATs walk. That he cuts and folds then takes it apart and rebuilds it. That the books are not just simple pop-ups books but pop-up extravaganzas and he feels he could have made it bigger.

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Oh that you attended NYCC doesn’t surprise me

BehrItAll

Of course.

I'll have more news to share soon. Just got to write it up.

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Star Wars’ first chinese novel announced

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Oh cool a Chinese published

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I probably won't be able to read a chinese SW book though