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UPDATE: And it’s up on StarWars.com.
I really really hate linking directly to PDFs, but since Borders themselves are loath to give it an actual product page, instead just tossing it the sidebar on their Sci-Fi page , here it is: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice, for free on Borders.com. (via) And yes, Sue Rostoni did confirm that it is for real yesterday, in case the PDF isn’t proof enough.
If nothing else, there’s a Sith-centric Fate of the Jedi: Omen preview in there, starting on page 31.
Yesterday, NJOE dug up some details on the marketing plan for the second Fate of the Jedi book, Christie Golden’s Omen. It includes an appearance by Christie Golden at San Diego Comic Con and new content on StarWars.com like a live author chat (a first?) and ‘Ben’s Journal’ – which sounds like something in the same vein as the Outcast postcards.
Not quite sure where they got the info, but it’s similar to what’s in the Random House Summer catalog (not yet available on their website, but you can find a PDF here – or see the relevant page under the jump.) Omen and the related publicity info are on page 72. But as you’ll note by the Abyssesque cover image, the catalog info is not necessarily the most up to date, and these things do have a tendency to change. But with the release date of June 23 bearing down, we’ll have news out of StarWars.com one way or another.
(Speaking of, Pablo Hidalgo’s Essential Guide to G.I. JOE is on page 85.) Continue reading “FOTJ marketing push continues for Omen“
Mara on the back cover of Abyss? Okay! Let’s not forget she is mentioned in the (spoilery!) blurb.
Rebelscum has discovered… somehow… what they say is a Fate of the Jedi eBook tie-in: Lost Tribe of the Sith 1: Precipice by Knights of the Old Republic’s John Jackson Miller. Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and I doubt they made it up out of whole cloth. Hopefully this means we’ll get official info very soon.
Good news, everyone! Several of the initial auctions in the Australian bushfire charity effort wrapped up this week, with the character name rights both netting impressive takes – $1,725 for Karen Miller and $1,028.75 for Sean Williams.
Sorry to be so late, but I assure you, these are indeed all the books I read last month. If this has taught me nothing else, it’s that I read a lot less books than I thought I did… Continue reading “Dunc reads: Books from March”
This poll has been up on the sidebar since Tuesday, but in the whirlwind of April Fools and everything else I forgot to actually make a post about it. In any case, now is your chance to click and pick what you thought of the first book of the Fate of the Jedi series, Aaron Allston’s Outcast. Register your vote – if you haven’t already – under the cut. Continue reading “Poll: Your thoughts on Outcast“
The bestseller lists for last week are up, and Fate of the Jedi: Outcast has made some waves: It’s #3 on both the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly lists.
The Drum, a marketing and advertising site from the U.K., has a feature on Keltie+Cochrane, the Welsh design agency responsible for the Fate of the Jedi covers. (The site requires registration, but you can get a user/password at BugMeNot.)
Del Rey has the dedicated site for the new series up and running. It’s not overflowing with new material, but it does have links to two new e-postcards and the excerpt – the same one as the PDF. (via)