Star Wars: Essential Guides is a 13-book series with 13 released primary works first released in 1995 with contributions by Andy Mangels, Bill Smith, Doug Chiang, Troy Vigil, Daniel Wallace, Kevin J. Anderson, W. Haden Blackman, Ann Margaret Lewis, Helen Keier, Ryder Windham, Paul R. Urquhart, Jason Fry, and Pablo Hidalgo.