>Because of this, I'm curious what the process is in making a Babylon 5 >novel from Del Rey? Why Trilogies?
In Minbari, all things are three.
> How are authors chosen?
By mutual consent; they'll suggest someone, and we'll talk about it. Keyes' work I somewhat knew, and he seemed right...and Peter David *is* a Centauri. Jeanne Cavelos' work on the shadow arc made her correct for the technomage books.
>How did >the decision to spotlight the series' history and background, instead >of the lead characters and the station, come about?
It's that perverse "let's do the opposite of what the marketing people think" thing I get into sometimes; there's so much history in the B5 universe, and I'd worked so much of it out, it seemed a shame to waste it.
Will there be any >single novels?
Dunno.
Is Warners & Del Rey willing and/or interested in >adding Crusade characters and concepts into the B5 books? > There will be some...Galen is all through both the technomage books and a bit in the Centauri books.
jms
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