I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.