Remember that Old Republic story Sue Rostoni hinted at a while back? Well, in the wake of the contract announcement, Sue spilled the beans. Well, some beans...

vip's, when will we find out more about the new books under the new delrey contract. Such as what era will they be set and other details?

The only solid detail I can give you now is that within the 18 books, 9 will form a series (I should note that Sue originally used the word trilogy, not series, but soon corrected herself - Mike) set in the Old Republic era, somewhere between 1,000 and 4,000 years before SW: ANH. There will be one hardcover and 2 mass market paperbacks per year in the series (I'll give you the dates in a later post), and we're hoping to get three authors to write the entire series.

They always said they wanted to do another series on a smaller scale, but I for one am nevertheless astounded by this (in a good way).

That schedule is also pretty interesting: 9 books overall, 2 paperbacks and 1 hardcover each year. That means the series won't begin and end with HCs like the NJO did (P-P-H P-P-H P-P-H, for example), unless the schedule is rearranged somehow (H-P-P P-H-P P-P-H, for example). In any event, here's hoping the wait for more information isn't going to be as long as I fear it will be.
Yay! Coooooool 8)