The Hello and welcome to the Force Cast Authors series. I'm your host

Steve Dunk from the Force dot net and everything is can in podcast. Thanks for

tuning in. On this show will have a spoiler-laden chat with authors from you

guest it, the world of Star Wars books novels comic books

RPGs even video games if they wrote something for Star Wars we want to talk to them

There's an author you'd like to see on the show, email me at Steve at the Force.

Net and I'll do my best to accommodate.

Even if there's a topic you'd like to see discussed, email me that as well.

So let's get going and have a chat with today's guest, Samuel Chris Batale.

Sam worked at Lucasfilm for 15 years in the Product Development Department,

rising to the level of senior manager for global product development.

He worked on just about everything while he was there, including, of course, Star Wars.

He was there during the company's so-called Dark Times, but you'll hear that they were anything but

bored, working on so many non- Star Wars projects as well, including Indiana Jones.

Lately, he's been freelance writing for Insight editions,

and next week you can get his latest release,

Star Wars collecting a Galaxy, the Art of Side Show,

which takes a look at the companies he's very familiar with,

sideshow collectibles, and their incredible line of Star Wars figures.

Again, if you haven't read what we're about to talk about

and you want to avoid any and all spoilers,

please stop listening now, but definitely come back to us after you've

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