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Celebration VI: Audio books panel highlights

September 3rd, 2012 by jawajames · 2 Comments

Random House Audio continued their convention tour, bringing some of their audio book production team to Star Wars Celebration VI as well as having a show floor presence. I caught the Star Wars University: Audio Books panel with staff from Random House Audio, producer Aaron Blank, narrator Marc Thompson (check out my interview with Marc), and director Kevin Thomsen. Crashing the panel was Leland Chee, keeper of the Holocron. Key points from the panel: (more…)

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Celebration VI: Interview with Marc Thompson, audiobook narrator

August 28th, 2012 by jawajames · 4 Comments

After the Random House Audiobooks panel, I had the opportunity to chat with voice actor Marc Thompson about his work as the narrator of the audio versions of the Star Wars novels. Plus he gives us a little sample of one of his favorite characters, Cilghal.

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Unabridged Dark Force Rising and The Last Command audiobooks coming in June

January 26th, 2012 by Dunc · 2 Comments

We might not be getting further annotated editions of the Timothy Zahn classics, but at least audiobook fans are getting something: Unabridged recordings of Dark Force Rising and The Last Command will be coming out in June, Random House audio announced this week.

Read by Marc Thompson, the audiobooks will be available digitally on June 26.

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