Star Wars: Star Pilots (UK Publication)
The time has finally come - Star Wars: Star Pilots has been officially published in the UK! For those of you across the Atlantic, it will land in stores on Tuesday 6th October!
I hope those of you who have either pre-ordered the book or are looking to pick it up in the coming days/weeks really enjoy it. It's a different book to The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire in ways that I think will become clearer as you read it.
If you'll allow me to give you all a piece of advice: I know the temptation with these things is to immediately go hunting for your favourite characters, or ships, or moments. I totally get it. But I would recommend holding off on that for the time being. Just read the book first.
After that, if you want to, you may be rewarded in finding different ways to dig into the content. But to begin with let Wedge and the other pilots tell their stories in a more linear way.
Star Pilots will demand more of you (if you're willing to give it) than Rise and Fall did. Wedge Antilles is not Beaumont Kin. This is probably one of the most important aspects of the book. They have different approaches and skills. So where they deviate there may be chances for you to fill in the gaps.
I'm sure there will be plenty of opportunities for me to discuss the book in the weeks to come (there's an orderly podcast queue forming as we speak) but I also want all of you to have the chance to experience it on your own terms.
So I won't be talking in any detail about the contents until at least after it has come out in the US.
Another thing I want you all to bear in mind is that whilst my name is on the front cover, that does not in anyway adequately reflect the division of labour on a book like this.
From my editor at DK (David Fentiman), through my agent (Justin Nash), and all the way up through the editor at Lucasfilm (Jennifer Pooley), the Lucasfilm Story Group, and Mike Siglain himself - all of them put a ton of trust in me and did a lot of hardwork behind the scenes. It is their book just as much as it is mine and I am incredibly grateful to all of them.
I'm also incredibly grateful to all of you! It feels likely that many of you are here because you read and enjoyed Rise and Fall. If you bought that book, left reviews, told your friends etc then you helped create the circumstances which allowed me to write more Star Wars. That means a lot to me.
With that in mind, if you do buy Star Pilots and enjoy it then leaving reviews on the likes of Amazon/Goodreads/Storygraph etc can be extremely helpful in driving the algorithms that lead to more sales and maybe to more books in the future!
Star Pilots has been part of my life now for over two years. I am incredibly excited that its moment has finally come.
We did it everybody. Happy publication day.
May the Force be with you all.
