Last month, Lucasfilm Licensing and Del Rey confirmed that they renewed their Star Wars Expanded Universe contract through the year 2013. Along with the contract renewal, they announced 45 new novels (35 fiction, 10 non-fiction) being prepped as part of the new deal. While we did get specifics on the already announced 9-book series Fate of the Jedi hitting shelves April 2009, we had very little to go on about the other 26 novels... ...