How Elizabeth Hand Turned Boba Fett Into a Fully Rounded YA Hero

We ’re apprehensively expect Elizabeth Hand ’s next novel , Hard Light . But in the lag , did you know she was also a prolific author of tie-up - in novel ? Inan article for the Washington Post , she explicate how she wrote the novelisation of Twelve Monkeys , and that open up some doors .

In picky , it led to Hand writing some XTC - Files and Millennium books , among others , and then she got an even better offer — to cover a series of YA books star the 10 - yr - old Boba Fett . Hand write :

I loved “ Star Wars , ” and my 10 - year - old boy was a huge buff . He had a Boba Fett helmet ! How could I say no ?

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Those volume were a delight to indite . David Levithan , my editor program at Scholastic and himself a successful Y.A. author , insert me to Lucasfilm ’s Jonathan Rinzler . They both offer encouragement and very little in the way of restrictions . With each taradiddle , I was given a title and a character or place that had to come into child’s play : Aurra Sing ; Jabba the Hutt ; Mace Windu ; the satellite Aargau ( which exist in the “ Star Wars ” cosmos only as a name , so I got to make an entire major planet ’s account , environmental science and finish ) .

Otherwise , I pretty much had free rein to create the game , characters and vernal Boba ’s own sensitivity . Boba Fett grows up to be a bounty hunter , the nemesis of Han Solo , but as a mom , I felt I had a responsibility to show him as a resourceful , sensitive , sometimes frightened orphan who overcame his fears and even made a few acquaintance his own age .

The best part is where she describes the fan mail she got , including one Kyd who had to write a book of account report about a great American — and it was down to Thomas Jefferson , or Elizabeth Hand . [ Washington Post ]

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