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Megan Crouse

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Writer. Here mostly for Star Wars books analysis. Co-author: STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC CHARACTER ENCYCLOPEDIA, STAR WARS ENCYCLOPEDIA 2024 | she/her | 🖤🤍💜| Beware of spoilers

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Wookieepedia @wookofficial.bsky.social · 6d

🌌 Wookieepedia's looking for help from collectors! If you have the Trials of the Jedi postcards featuring Bell Zettifar or Porter Engle, we’d love clear front-and-back images to use on Wookieepedia for documenting the set - send a DM or reply if able to help! #StarWars #TheHighRepublic

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 12h

I sincerely believe that if you gave the five most lofty literary novelists the ability to write novelisations of, say, star wars, with absolutely no creative restrictions or directional guidance whatsoever besides a note saying "go nuts," we would get actual great art

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Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 13h

I was thinking of him at NYCC. Truly a person who lit up a room

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Justin Bolger @justinbolger.bsky.social · 17h

On what would have been his 50th birthday (I wish he was still here so I could tease him), take a minute out of your day to read about John Bierly in his own words. He was the best person in the world, and he was an even better friend. ❤️ johnbierly.com

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Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 1d

Reading beyond the headline, I'm mostly struck by how much the purported wide-open horizons here resemble the way people outside of fanfiction describe it, e.g., "Fan fiction writers put Batman on the bridge of the Enterprise." The shallow wacky mashup or what-if that basically stops there.

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not burnt out on Star Wars. I’m burnt out on a lot of other things, and now I have time to see what it’s like not to be.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 3d

Querying is so thankless but You Gotta Do It

Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 3d

Between con and church this morning I’m feeling very encouraged about using my time without a day job (however long it lasts) to pursue more Star Wars work and query a lot of fiction. When I have down time I’m going to use it 🙌

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Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 4d

the new expanded pro and press lounge area is very nice

Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 4d

the thrill of showing a con badge and getting let in to a roped-off area

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Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 4d

aww I’m sorry

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Madeleine Roux @authoroux.bsky.social · 4d

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

Some books are just meant to be, ya know? Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong. ✨

Cover reveal for STAR WARS LEGACY with Leia, Rey and Kylo Ren

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Set between Episodes VIlI and IX, Rey and Leia embark on a quest to repair Rey's lightsaber and rekindle the legacy of the Jedi.
After barely escaping the First Order on Crait, Rey and the Resistance are struggling to rebuild. Her friends need the last Jedi more than ever, but Rey feels alone and overwhelmed: Jedi tradition is built on masters and apprentices, and Rey's teacher is gone. Leia Organa tries her best to train Rey in the ways of the Force as Luke did for her so many years ago, but Leia's knowledge is limited, Rey's lightsaber is broken, and the specter of Kylo Ren and regrets from the past haunt them both. How can Leia pass the torch, when she herself is unsure of the way?
But then, the ancient Jedi texts offer a glimmer of hope: a long-forgotten Jedi temple on Tython that might hold the key to repairing Rey's saber. Rey leaps at the chance to journey there - and to her surprise, so does Leia.
Rey and Leia's nascent mentorship is put to the test when they discover the temple on Tython is filled with obscure clues to decipher and arcane trials to complete.As they work to unravel the temple's mysteries, they encounter a group of refugees living in its shadow, hiding from a First Order officer hot on the trail of two freedom fighters in their midst: With the threat of the First Order looming and the secrets of the temple yet to be unlocked, the newly forged master and apprentice must confront their pasts, reach each other in the present, and decide what it means to carry the legacy of the Jedi into the future.

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Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations @kristinbaver.bsky.social on your upcoming Insider fiction!!

Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 4d

Eyes Like Stars, a YA romance novel, will be the first in a series of Star Wars “genre” novels including maybe an upcoming “war” entry. Star Wars has done this before with romance and horror but not under a specific “genre” banner

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Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 4d

Luke Skywalker will be in Legacy of Vader #10, meeting Kylo Ren again in some way

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Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 4d

Legacy is a Leia and Rey novel!!

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Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 4d

LFL Publishing panel!

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Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 4d

starlings heading to Javits

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Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 4d

starlings heading to Javits

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Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 4d

heading out to NYCC. this is something like my eleventh year

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Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 5d

Somehow, my morning exercises must still happen on the first really cold day of the fall

Megan Crouse @fullofwords.bsky.social · 8d

Revenge of the Sith came out in May of course but the tragedy has an October energy that suits the wind blowing the dead leaves off the trees

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Pablo Rivera @pablonotpicasso.bsky.social · 12d

Mushed together some inspiration of fossil evidence of predator skeletons with visible tail spike damage from stegosaurus and modern wildlife photography of deer going about with the stuck heads of rivals on their antlers-macabre but fits the month! #paleoart #paleosky #stegosaurus

Stegosaurus ungulatus with the stuck skull of a ceratosaurus on its tail spikes. Small anurognathid pterosaurs fly about the ceratosaur skull, roosting inside and feeding on the insects attracted by the decomposing head.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 12d

some days at the paragraph factory are more existential than others

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