My Jedi Memoir: A Double Life: James Kahn looks back at his Star Wars novelisation

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James Kahn, the author behind the novelidsations of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Goonies amongst others, looks back to his years writing movie adaptations, and foremost amongst those was his time working on Return of the Jedi. It’s those Star Wars and Indy novels that will grab the imagination of Lucasfilm fans, and you can delve into that novel right now by clicking here and ordering it on Amazon.

JAMES KAHN spent the 1980’s and 1990’s writing for Hollywood and working as an emergency room doctor. His memories of those times provide the fodder for these crazy, funny, poignant, outrageous, surreal, revealing tales.

He also goes in depth about his writing of some of the biggest novelizations of the decade – Poltergeist, The Goonies, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; and especially Return of the Jedi – for which he provides a scene by scene exegesis, exploring the entire novel.

Accompanied by scans of original manuscript pages, this is a never before seen window into the creative process that went into the writing of the classic Jedi novel.

ASIN‏: ‎ B0F596HV83
Publisher‏: ‎ BearManor Media (April 24, 2025)
Language‏: ‎ English
Hardcover‏: ‎ 276 pages
ISBN-13: ‎ 979-8887717319

SourceAmazon
Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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James Kahn, the author behind the novelidsations of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Goonies amongst others, looks back to his years writing movie adaptations, and foremost amongst those was his time working on Return of the Jedi. It’s those Star Wars and Indy novels that will grab the imagination of Lucasfilm fans, and you can delve into that novel right now by clicking here and ordering it on Amazon.

JAMES KAHN spent the 1980’s and 1990’s writing for Hollywood and working as an emergency room doctor. His memories of those times provide the fodder for these crazy, funny, poignant, outrageous, surreal, revealing tales.

He also goes in depth about his writing of some of the biggest novelizations of the decade – Poltergeist, The Goonies, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; and especially Return of the Jedi – for which he provides a scene by scene exegesis, exploring the entire novel.

Accompanied by scans of original manuscript pages, this is a never before seen window into the creative process that went into the writing of the classic Jedi novel.

ASIN‏: ‎ B0F596HV83
Publisher‏: ‎ BearManor Media (April 24, 2025)
Language‏: ‎ English
Hardcover‏: ‎ 276 pages
ISBN-13: ‎ 979-8887717319

SourceAmazon
Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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