You worked on ‘Tales of the Bounty Hunters’ primarily on the IG-88 story, were you provided with any information on the character before you started writing, or were you left to find out stuff by yourself and build a story from what you had found? And I also spent dozens of days in the Skywalker Ranch art archives, and you simply can’t match that experience. Month after month, I got to sit for hours beside the great Ralph McQuarrie in his studio, brainstorming with him, watching him sketch out the crazy ideas we came up with together. We got so much fan mail on that book.Īnd on a personal level, nothing can match the experience of doing THE ILLUSTRATED STAR WARS UNIVERSE.
It shows the consequences of sloppy phone-it-in work (she loses her arm), it shows that you don’t goof around with dangerous weapons like lightsabers (she loses her arm), and it shows that even if someone is handicapped, she can still kick ass more than anybody else. I think my favourite of all is LIGHTSABERS, Young Jedi Knights #4, a seminal book for Tenel Ka, which works on so many levels. So did Lucasfilm, so they offered me a lot more work! I put EVERYTHING into that book and I really loved how it turned out. When I wrote it, I thought this was going to be the last one, that I wouldn’t likely be doing more Star Wars (I had already done a lot of SW titles, and they wanted to bring in a lot more authors). Your back catalogue of Star Wars books is huge, what are some of your favourites you have worked on and why?Ī few different choices. I had never considered it before, but it sure didn’t take long to say yes! One day my Bantam editor called and asked “Do you like Star Wars? Do you want to write three sequels?” It was a complete surprise, but I was already a huge fanboy. I had published about seven novels from Signet Books and Bantam Books. How did you get involved with Star Wars novels? I would draw pictures and tell stories out loud. I’ve always wanted to be a writer, even before I could write. Kevin’s catalogue of Star Wars books is huge and contains some of my all-time favourite stories, so I decided to ask him a few questions about them. Anderson about some of his work with regards to Star Wars.
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