She writes about the inside and gives the back cover copy at her blog.
Guess who’s blogging?
It’s Helen! The book she co-authored, The New Essential Guide to Alien Species, comes out at the end of October.
Essential Alien update
Final The New Essential Guide to Alien Species cover completely different than the preliminary cover. For one, Yoda is nowhere to be seen, in accordance with Lucasfilm claims that the Jedi Master’s species will remain a mystery.
Evil Bears indeed
The early cover and some sketches from The New Essential Guide to Alien Species on starwars.com tonight. You can just see Helen’s name under the ‘NOT FINAL COVER’. And the drawings look fabulous!
The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
Well, the cat is out of the bag… The New Essential Guide to Alien Species is coming out later this year, and our own Helen Keier is one of the authors. Let’s raise a frothy blue cocktail to her!
Sadly, TFN is more interested in who’s doing the cover than noticing that one of their former staffers is getting her first book.
Who loves history?
The New Essential Chronology came out today, and starwars.com has endnotes for the book.
Dan Wallace started a talkback entry at his blog for the book, if you’re already pouring over it.