The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

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.