Does George Lucas personally approve every Star Wars book?
No, not personally. He employs a dedicated staff of editors and licensing staff in a division of the company called Lucas Licensing. It’s the job of the people at Licensing to decide what Star Wars books and other stories are published, and they’re also in charge of making sure the stories fit together as well as possible. But George Lucas’s personal approval is required for certain things, such as the deaths of characters from the movies, and he has sometimes designated certain topics or time periods to be off limits (for example, before he made Episodes I-III, authors weren’t allowed to write their own stories about that time period).
