Trey King

Trey King is a pseudonym of American author and editor Rex Ogle (born August 18, 1978 in Austin, Texas, United States). For the Star Wars franchise, he edited several books in the Star Wars: Jedi Academy series and authored several young readers titles published by Disney–Lucasfilm Press, including Death Star Battle and stories featured in 5-Minute Star Wars Stories.
==Biography==
===Beginnings and Jedi Academy===
Trey King, better known by his given name Rex Ogle, was born on August 18, 1978 in Austin, Texas in the United States. Beginning in November 2011, Ogle began work as an editor for publisher Scholastic.
During his time at Scholastic, Ogle served as editor of the initial entries in the non-canon chapter book series Star Wars: Jedi Academy, working with author Jeffrey Brown to create the first three books, Jedi Academy, Return of the Padawan, and The Phantom Bully, as well as the activity book Attack of the Journal. The titles were published on August 27, 2013; July 29, 2014; June 30, 2015; and August 25, 2015 respectively.
Ogle is only officially credited in The Phantom Bully,Jedi Academy: The Phantom Bully although he received special thanks from Brown in the first two books of the series.Jedi AcademyJedi Academy: Return of the Padawan After working with Brown, Ogle continued to edit further works in the series with new author Jarrett J. Krosoczka, but it remains unclear which titles he worked on before departing from his position at Scholastic in December 2014. Under the Trey King pseudonym, Ogle authored his first Star Wars children's title, Star Wars: A Very Vader Valentine's Day, an activity book published by Scholastic on November 26, 2013.
===Disney–Lucasfilm Press===
Several years later, King began to author Star Wars young readers titles for publisher Disney–Lucasfilm Press beginning with three illustrated short stories in the anthology The Original Trilogy Stories,The Original Trilogy Stories published on September 1, 2015. King's stories, "The Hero's Journey Begins," "The Revelation," and "Flight and Fight!," adapt sequences from the 1977 film Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, the 1980 film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, and the 1983 film Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi respectively. On March 19, 2019, all of King's stories from the anthology were adapted into an unabridged audiobook.
King's next short story, "Destroy the Death Star!," was published on December 18, 2015 in the anthology 5-Minute Star Wars Stories. The story adapts the Battle of Yavin from A New Hope. "Destroy the Death Star" was adapted as part of an unabridged audiobook on January 17, 2022. King went on to author Death Star Battle, a World of Reading book similar to "Destroy the Death Star!"—the title adapts the same sequences from A New Hope and features the same art, albeit with different text.Death Star Battle The book was published on February 2, 2016.
==Works==
===Bibliography===
Year	Title 	Format 	Contribution 	Note
2013	Jedi Academy 	Chapter book 	Editor, special thanks	Only credited as special thanks
2013	Star Wars: A Very Vader Valentine's Day	Activity book 	Author 	
2014	Jedi Academy: Return of the Padawan 	Chapter book 	Editor, special thanks	Only credited as special thanks
2015	Jedi Academy: The Phantom Bully 	Chapter book 	Editor, special thanks	Credited as Rex Ogle
2015	Jedi Academy: Attack of the Journal 	Activity bookJedi Academy: Attack of the Journal	Editor 	Uncredited
2015	 	Children's short story 	Author 	
2015	 	Children's short story 	Author 	
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2015	 	Children's short story 	Author 	
2016	Death Star Battle 	Children's storybook 	Author 	
==Sources==
*Jedi Academy 
*Star Wars: A Very Vader Valentine's Day
*Jedi Academy: Return of the Padawan 
*Jedi Academy: The Phantom Bully 
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*Death Star Battle
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==Notes and references==
==External links==
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Category:Editors
Category:Young Reader authors