And then there were none...--Thoughts on a year well-spent One year ago, on July 12, I finished a lovely fic called "From the Depths" about a Jedi revolt on a prison ship during the Purges. Absolutely everyone died at one point or another and I loved it, but not for that reason. It also happened to end on my

You had to be there--Ode to Fanforces Back in 2001, I heard about something called fanforce. I hooked up with the local one in Provo, UT where I am a university student and wihtin a month, I'd gone from a solitary Star Wars fan in my dorm to dressing up for The Phantom Menace DVD release and

If I could...--My interview wishlist When I was a young girl, my mom had the most amazing idea. She asked us to write down a list of our heroes for her. Between the three older sisters (of which I am the middle child) and, later my brother, they were people like our school librarian, the

Let Freedom Ring--What did the Empire tell their kids about the founding? A bit of background. When I was 9, I moved to Massachusetts and before I could even get properly settled in, our school did the unit on the Revolutionary War. I immediately got to know everything I wanted to ever know about the war and then some. We

The World's Greatest Fanfilms Well, it's that time of year again. Atomfilms is running the Star Wars fanfilm awards and, sadly, I can't count any of them in this list this year, but I thought I'd put out my two cents worth on my favorite fanfilms.

What was Leia told about her heritage? I am currently writing a very thought-provoking (at least for me) fic called To Cast Away Stones and someone recently asked how it's possible that Leia's adoption was not public knowledge. At several points in that story, there have been delicious

Well, I hope If all has gone well, I just used my new credit card to renew my account. Or at least, I hope that's what I did. I may have sent my life savings to Khazakstan for all I know. My aspirations for this year (and these will be transferred to my 'normal'

Death by Bad Hair Day--Episode II done humorously, I hope, part 1 Opening crawl: Why do you people not get it? We're screwed, the bowlcut childhood made the whiner a 19-year-old whiner and that darn Queen can't stay out of trouble!

Pay no attention to the love interest behind the 50-pound dress--TPM humor Okay, for your enjoyment, here is a spoof that is an oblique reference to everything from my original novel to Firefly.

I feel the conflict--Thoughts on the Anakin Skywalker fall and redemption In my view, the coolest thing about Star Wars has always been the redemption of Darth Vader ne Anakin Skywalker. In most triumph-over-evil stories, the bad guy gets what's coming to him because he is utterly irredeemable.