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Only Karens for five-book The Clone Wars series

In the light of yesterday’s press release, Karen Miller spills a few more beans at her livejournal:

The Sekrit Projekt is a Star Wars novel. I’ll be doing 2. They’re both set in the Clone Wars era, and connected to the new animated series that’s coming out soon. It’s a 5-book series in total, and the super spectacular Karen Traviss will be writing the other 3. I’m so lucky to be working with her. It’s a bit of a cosmic trip, this, no pun intended. I think I’d be a lost cause if I didn’t have her to guide my tottering footsteps.

Gotta tell you, I am having waaaaay too much fun.

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Expanded Universe newsbits

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More on The Clone Wars tie-in books

Publisher’s Weekly looks into the busy world of The Clone Wars tie-ins. The pertinent bits:

Grosset & Dunlap will be the primary licensee for children’s formats including junior novelizations, 8x8s, readers, movie photo books and activity books, starting with movie tie-ins this summer—the on-sale date for all books and merchandise is July 26—followed by TV-based titles in the fall. Other juvenile licensees include DK for sticker books, Visual Guides and DK Readers and Dalmatian for coloring and activity books. For older readers, Random House’s Del Rey imprint will publish one movie and four TV novelizations, and Dark Horse will release monthly comics and digest-size graphic novels. An “Art Of” title is expected as well.

Meanwhile, classic Star Wars publishing will continue; Scholastic will introduce a new series next year.

Paul over at TFN speculates that the Traviss and Miller mystery books may be the first wave of novelizations.

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Sue Rostoni has ‘no comment’ on mystery books: Idle speculation on the new contract

Not the most surprising comment in the world, but hey, at least it’s something:

I can’t comment on this yet because the contract (a different one than the “main” contract) has not yet been signed. And “first announcements” will appear on starwars.com first, so if you haven’t read it from the main site, I can’t comment on it here.

As for ongoing contract issue that she also addresses, it should be noted that both books are listed as Del Rey releases on Amazon and also appear on RandomHouse.com (with the Del Rey logo) just like all the currently announced upcoming books. Would LFL pursue a secondary contract with Del Rey if they weren’t planning on renewing the main one? (And for that matter, why is Del Rey adding them to the catalog if the contract isn’t signed? Solicitation requirements?)

We have had dual book contracts before (Del Rey/Bantam in the 90’s) but I’m not really inclined to believe that LFL would go back in that direction.

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Another mystery book: ‘Untitled K. Miller 1’

Again found on Amazon: Untitled K. Miller 1. Same price range as the Traviss book… Same temporary title format… Looks like we might we have a series? And given the timing of the release dates, I’m beginning to lean towards the theory that these are indeed Clone Wars tie-ins.

K. Miller is confirmed (sort of) to be Karen Miller, an Australian fantasy author who has also written Stargate SG-1 novels. And now I can’t help but wonder if there’s a third Karen in the mix…

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Mystery: ‘Untitled K. Traviss 1’

Eddie on the StarWars.com boards discovered a mystery Karen Traviss Star Wars book on that paragon of reliability, Amazon.com. Whatever could it be? Order 66 is out in August, and already has a page on Amazon… Is the mystery book not a novel at all? Or could it be one of Traviss’ original works, mislabeled? Or is Amazon just having delusions? We’ll just have to wait and see: If the book is really set for a summer release we ought to hear something official soon.

ETA: Comments from Traviss at EU Cantina.