Hello One and All,
Next week I'll be going down to San Diego to participate in the craziness (and looking for some comic books from the 1970s). Lorne Peterson will be there--and I have to say his book, Sculpting a Galaxy: Inside the Star Wars Model Shop is looking fantastic. It's been fun to edit. We're pretty much done with the interior design, the writing is approved, the cover is done--George Lucas, Rick McCallum and Phil Tippett have done their pieces...and Lorne has done some incredible sculpts--just for this book! I can't say exactly what they are, but the deluxe edition will be at least as sumptuous as Dressing a Galaxy. Now we're working on the booklets that will go inside the deluxe edition, which comes out this November.

Let's see...what else is happening. I've finished the first draft of the Making of Star Wars book--this is for the original 1977 film. George Lucas read the rough draft, made some corrections, filled in some blanks, and signed off on that. So now the captions are done for the chosen images--many, many never seen before--and we're just starting the design for the book, which comes out in April 2007. So we're in fairly good shape.

We're really happy with the response to the four Sith covers for latest Star Wars Insider--thanks to Aaron McBride and Christian Alzmann of ILM! I think it was one of the highlights of 2006 for publishing. The New Essential Guide to Droids is either in or on its way to bookstores and it has some really great work in it by illustrator Ian Fullwood and author Dan Wallace. We're also finishing up the New Essential Guide to Alien Species--and it too has dozens of great new paintings.

And... there are more things in the works that shall remain nameless for now. But stay tuned to starwars.com...

thanks all,
Jonathan Rinzler
Executive Editor
Lucasfilm