I guess I should explain what the SWFA is.

In 1998, a group of obsessive Star Wars fans came together in a spontaneous convocation on the information superhighway. All subscribers to Star Wars author James McFadden's JMM's Star Wars Chronology, the fun started when someone (I like to remember it being yours truly, but it's just as likely that it was JF Boivin) offered his input on proper placement of the Jabba the Hutt comics in the Star Wars timeline and fatefully hit "Reply to All." Soon, 20 to 30 e-mails on everything Star Wars were flooding the inboxes of folks on the list daily. (E-mail in those volumes is rare these days, but definitely spikes during big events like the release of a film or something like the Clone Wars cartoon microseries).

The group quickly took the name the Star Wars Fanboy Association, coined by Fantastic Technology: Droids author Drew Campbell, and soon after started a website. It was here, in fact, that starwars.com content developer Pablo Hidalgo first unleashed the "Wilhelm Scream" compilation on an unsuspecting world that has since been hoisted, duplicated, and elaborated upon by countless others with only half as much grace and wit.

Besides myself and those already mentioned, the SWFA has included such members as Essential Guide writers Dan Wallace and Ann Margaret Lewis, rpg designers Jason Fry, Joe Bongiorno and Josh Radke, artists Joe Corroney and Amy Pronovost, and other notable web personalities.

Unfortunately, it's rare for the SWFA to take new members these days,*** but its website is still frequently updated, and occasionally accepts submissions from fans, as in the case of Adrick Tolliver's (a.k.a. TalonCard86) comical "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Glove of Darth Vader."

For more on the foundation of the SWFA, see the website's first editorial: "What is the SWFA?" ~ Abel G. Peņa
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***I'm reminded of a time in my pre-LFL days when, after reading the Wraith Squadron X-Wing books, I contacted author Aaron Allston to tell him how much I enjoyed the novels and invited him to join the SWFA. He replied with his thanks and informed me that he was already a member of the SFWA--the Science Fiction Writers' Association. That'll teach me to use acronyms!

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