Via Starwars.com:
STARWARS.COM TALKS WITH THE AUTHOR OF A NEW BOOK EXPLORING THE ALIENS OF STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS!
Going on sale today is a new hardcover collection of Star Wars stories, titled Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Tales from a Galaxy Far, Far Away: ALIENS Volume I. Written by Landry Q. Walker, this anthology of six stories puts the spotlight on some of the minor and background characters from the recent film. Walker has been writing stories in different media for over 20 years, including many for the all-ages audience, including the comic Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, the novella Frozen: The Phantoms of Arendelle, and several storylines for The Incredibles comics. While four of the stories in Tales from a Galaxy Far, Far Away were previously published in eBook format in December 2015, this is their first time in print, and two stories have not been published until now, exclusive to this collection. With this new book coming out from Disney-Lucasfilm Press, StarWars.com had the opportunity to ask Walker a few questions about his work.
StarWars.com: How did this novelette collection come about?
Landry Q. Walker: Long story short, I was asked. It was a funny confluence of events for me, as I had been doing a lot of freelance writing for Sideshow Collectibles. Sideshow is a major Star Wars licensee and so I just happened to find myself constantly surrounded by Star Wars stuff. More and more Star Wars was on my brain, and as I am a bit of a toy collector I was finding myself starting to want to collect new Star Wars figures for the first time since around 1996. But my wife made the valid point that I have a lot of toys, and finally said, “Look, you can get Star Wars toys if you get a job working on something Star Wars.”
Few weeks later, I got an e-mail asking if I wanted to work on Star Wars. I texted my wife and her only response: “You will do anything to get those toys, won’t you?” So now I have about a hundred Star Wars figures, plus courtesy of Sideshow, a couple Sixth Scale Figures. Pretty happy about that.
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