High Republic Round-up: Storming the bestseller lists, new covers and appearing on Disney+

• The big news of course this week was Charles Soule’s Light of the Jedi debuting at #1 in the New York Times Bestseller List and Justina Ireland’s Test of Courage debuting at #2. The entire team is over the moon! Congratulations Charles and Justina. Click here for more.

• Plus, as Disney Publishing’s Publicity Manager Lyssa Hurvitz points out, it’s not just the New York Times list!

• Now the novel is out, Charles was able to go into more detail in this new interview about Light of the Jedi with Polygon. Be warned – here be spoilers!

• Charles also talked Light of the Jedi to Star Wars Explained over on YouTube, including that bestseller debut.

• The entire team made their Disney+ debut on Friday. Episode Seven of Disney Insider featured a film about the Project Luminous launch event in LA last year. You can watch me, Claudia, Justina, Daniel, Charles, Micheal Siglain and Story Group’s James Waugh as we prepared for the launch, including touring Disney’s spectacular art department. And that isn’t enough, there are also Muppets and lions!

• The show featured a heap of new concept art and eagle-eyed viewers noticed that some of the covers had different titles, including Justina’s New York Times Bestseller (Love saying that!) This observation led to a thread from Justina about how book covers come together.

• Talking of covers, the cover to the third printing of Star Wars: The High Republic #1 was revealed. Last day for pre-orders is 18th January.

• I also released a breakdown of a page of issue one to show how a comic is put together from script to the final copy. Plus, the reviews of issue one are in!

• Daniel has been releasing loads of Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures content on TikTok, including how the pages come together and character profiles.

• Books of Wonder have announced a virtual launch event for Claudia’s Light of the Jedi on Thursday 4th February where Claudia will appear with Justina, the conversation moderated by Zoraida Córdova. See here for more details of how to reserve your spot.

• New variants for issue two of Star Wars: The High Republic have been revealed including, a Carlo Pagulayan cover featuring the majority of the Starlight Jedi (plus a certain Grand Master), an Ashley M. Witter cover featuring Keeve, Terec and Ceret and a Will Sliney cover featuring Lourna Dee as seen in Charles’ number one New York Times bestseller. (Yup, still like saying it.)

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