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Yesterday I mentioned two things in my discussion of royalty statements that I wanted to talk a bit more about today. One was returns: Returns are a crucial part of the current book publishing model; and are one of the reasons it’s collapsing in on itself. Back during the Great Depression, book publishers started making […]

Thanks to your comments, here, on Facebook, in blogs and on Twitter, I got an email from an editor at Random House asking me to assure you all that the X-wing books are not going out of print. The editor said that they never were out of print. The editor said that they consider the […]

Usually when an envelope arrives from your publisher during royalty time, it’s a happy event. This time, not so much. A quick glance at the statements revealed that Bantam Spectra chose, during the second half of 2010, to let my Star Wars™ X-wing novels go out of print. Getting the news that such a decision […]

A number of very nice people have asked if I will be attending the Star Wars Celebration V (August 12-15 in Orlando). In the past I’ve heard rumors that I’ve been spotted at other Celebrations, or that I was going to be the guest of honor at some group or other’s party. Having attended conventions […]

Phoenix Comicon was nothing short of an exciting and fun weekend. Okay, exhausting, too; but all the best conventions are. The last Phoenix Comicon had been out in Mesa, and it had outgrown its site. It moved downtown to the Phoenix Civic Center, more than doubling the floor space. It seemed pretty clear that it […]

The Secrets Podcast has just started its fourth season. This time around I’m tackling novels and the stuff that takes place while you’re writing one. I’m starting off using Star Wars™ X-wing™ Rogue Squadron™ as my example. It’s a good choice because so many folks have read it, and since it started a series, has […]

In the tail end of September, 2000, Decipher Inc, the makers of the Star Wars™ collectible card game flew Timothy Zahn and me out to Norfolk, VA for a photoshoot connected with their upcoming Reflections II card set. Previously that month they’d shot pictures of a model portraying Mirax Terrik, Corran’s wife, and at the […]