Roqoo Depot has spotted some more details on the X-Wing series bundle, including the price: $56.99 for all 9 books. It’s eBook only and will be out on July 30.
The individual X-Wing paperbacks and eBooks are currently listed for $7.99 a pop; A full set would cost you $71.91 (plus sales tax, if applicable.) So if you’re looking to catch up on the series, this is probably your best bet outside of used copies and/or the library. (Unless you already own them all, of course!)
I still wish we were seeing the series reissued as trade paperback collections (maybe if Mercy Kill sells really well?) but this is a nice way to give some EU classics a little refreshing.
A look over the Celebration site shows they are now accepting applications to be a volunteer at CVI! Go to the site, click on About SWC at the top, then choose Crew to access the information (or use the link prior).
A few important details:
You are committing to working Thursday – Sunday, some will be asked to work on Wednesday.
You will be paid for your efforts.
You must be 21.
There is an application linked at the bottom of the page. The questions are basic information, asking what experience you have and what you bring to the team. Be honest!
Various Club Jaders have volunteered at Celebration since II in Indy. We’ve worked the lines, ran stages, wrangled guests, helped fans, answered questions, fetched food and drinks, and even helped slice, plate, and serve 5000 pieces of cake. (Celebration IV). Volunteering is work but it can be fun and exciting to be part of the show in a small way. Many of us do it because we get to meet so many other fans who love Star Wars and also help make the event special for everyone we encounter. Others are motivated because you never know what might happen and it makes for an adventurous week. Some of us do it because it is our way of contributing back to the Star Wars community.
A short list of unusual things some of us have done:
Played trivia and gave away prizes to random fans in line.
Helped StarWarsShop.com unpack and sell Boba Fetts. Two of us were stopped all weekend and at the airport by fans who came through the line.
Watched model makers, effects people, and other behinds the scenes types be amazed at how interested the fans were in how and what they did, and be knowledgeable about their career outside of Star Wars.
Putting together gift bags for a fan breakfast- we got to see items we’d never seen for sale before or had not seen in years.
Found Wampa fur pillows to decorate a couch.
If you are thinking of volunteering:
Ask yourself if you are okay with not seeing/doing everything. Work will come first.
Are you a people person? Most jobs involve interacting with lots of strangers.
Will you be professional and keep your inner fanboy/fangirl in check?
If you’ve said yes to the above, can think fast and creatively on your feet, sign up! Volunteering is a great experience and can introduce you to areas of the fandom you’ve not experienced before. For example, I never did life sized origami until CIII!
Then she noticed that Trey had stopped talking. Instead, he was leaning forward, his forehead pressed against a heavy-duty, locking transparisteel cabinet.
Myri moved until she could see his face. “Four? You suddenly look like you want to cry.”
“I do.” He stepped back from the cabinet and shone his glow rod on its contents.
The cabinet had two shelves, themselves transparisteel. On the top shelf were two silvery bowl-like stands, and in each rested a globe larger than a balled human fist—a globe with dials and a depressible button.
Myri stared at them for a moment, then clamped her hand over her mouth to suppress a gasp. “Thermal detonators.”
“Two of them.” Trey’s voice was almost rapturous. “I have to steal these.”
He crawled southward, keeping well below the trench lip above.
Myri followed, occasionally peeking up above the rim to see her surroundings. “My father was on the Death Star Trench Run. You know, the famous one. Me, I get the General’s Basement Trench Crawl.”
We’ve had a few editions to the Celebration VI guest list in these past few days: Repping for the sound team are Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood and David Acord, while Jon Berg and Lorne Peterson represent the model makers.
Reed is also looking for Orlando fan tips on Twitter. Somehow I doubt my suggestions of ‘stay inside’ and ‘curse Florida’ will make the final cut. Feel free to let loose with your Florida-centric snark: This is a safe space, my fellow Florida-haters!
Spotlight.Essential Guide to Warfare co-author Paul Urquhart takes a look at ‘the best star-pilots in the galaxy’. But what we’re really talking about here is the art by Frank-Joseph “Mazzic” Frelier, which includes what I think is out first look at Syal Antilles.
In other Warfare-related matters, there have been three more installments of endnotes since we last checked in: 9, 10 and 11.
Awards. John Jackson Miller’s Knight Errant is a Scribe Award nominee for Best Original Novel in the Speculative Fiction category. The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers are also naming Expanded Universe alumni Kevin J. Anderson as the year’s Grandmaster. Other familiar names among the nominees include Mike Stackpole (for his Conan the Barbarian adaption) and A.C. Crispin for her Pirates of the Caribbean novel.
Now hiring…NJOE, EUCantina and Knights Archive are looking for some dedicated fans to join their respective sites. (Rather limited) internet fame! Glamour! No money! But possibly drinks at CVI!
Like the other new Keepsake Ornaments, this will be available in Hallmark stores beginning on July 14. Be sure to get there ASAP if you want Momaw, though: I hear these go fast.
Some of us got a peek at this at Origins, (See? You should totally come) but now Star Wars Books has revealed the full cover for Timothy Zahn’s Scoundrels. The characters on the back half are, left to right, Kell Tainer, Winter, Zerba Cher’dak, and Bink Kitik. The painting is by Paul Youll.
It looks like Scoundrels has moved up a little in the schedule, as well – Editor Erich Schoeneweiss gives it a December 16th date, up from the 26th. Nevermind – it’s still the 26th. BOO.
Coming to your local comic shop on Wednesday is Knight Errant: Escape #1, the beginning of a new storyline for Kerra Holt and crew. There are two versions of the cover – one by Benjamin Carré (above left) and the variant by Mike Hawthorne.
It’s also time to be on the lookout for Star Wars Insider #134, notable to EU fans for the short story ‘Getaway’ by Christie Golden, starring Jaina Solo and Jag Fel.
Roqoo Depot has spotted some more details on the X-Wing series bundle, including the price: $56.99 for all 9 books. It’s eBook only and will be out on July 30.
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Del Rey’s Erich Schoeneweiss gave us 
We’ve had a few editions to the Celebration VI guest list in these past few days: Repping for the sound team are 
