"Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is a Disney/Lucasfilm publishing initiative to connect the 2015 film Star Wars: The Force Awakens with previous film installments in the Star Wars franchise. All titles under the program are canonical to the Star Wars universe. The group of "at least" 20 novels and comic books from multiple publishers was announced in March 2015. The first novels, including Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig and Star Wars: Lost Stars by Claudia Gray, were published in September 2015, prior to the release of The Force Awakens in December 2015.