Daniel Keys MoranAn interlude and two new chapters of "Emerald Throne," up on the patreon, for those of you who are there. The $5 tier.
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Steve Perry
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Old hippie. Writer. Nothing to do with the rock group Journey. Play ukulele, practice an Indonesian martial art, have a Corgi, kids, grandkids, all like that.
@fatsam And while he seldom dipped his toe into the book-fray, George did have the final say. There was a bit about "spice" whereupon one of the editors said it wasn't an illicit drug and they took it to George.
Of course it's an illicit drug, he said.
@fatsam I recall you were gonna have two stories in that anthology, weren't you? I mean, the Cordwainer Bird was because they screwed with one too much?
@fatsam I was, for a time, caught up in a blacklist at Lucasfilm -- not my fault, but that of the SFWA organization. I got past that enough to write one more shared-universe book, but when I pitched new stories, they didn't like 'em. That parting was amicable.
@steveperry I keep thinking about offering to fix it all. I didn't enjoy working with them, 30 years ago, and they didn't enjoy working with me, but at least on my side, I'm SO MUCH CALMER THESE DAYS.
Probably not. I've got a lot on my plate, for a retired guy.
@fatsam What you did with him was way better than what The Mouse did to him. Worst of the live-action SW's streaming series, hands-down.
@steveperry :D I've had people tell me I didn't understand Boba Fett *at all.*
Dude. Boba Fett had 6 minutes of screen time and five lines of dialog in the original trilogy. You may not like what I did with that seed, but there was no Fett there to "understand," really.
@fatsam Death does create some distance -- one isn't putting money into somebody's pocket and supporting bad habits.
@fatsam My experience is that I seldom know anywhere near as much as hardcore fan do about something I've written, especially in a shared-universe.
I do smile when a Predators fan tries to tell me the right way to pronounce "yautja," the name of the Predators race.
Dan at 20: People are having a fan argument about whether Star Trek novels are "canon."
Dan@20 could A) join in, B) play basketball, C) wash his hair for about the next eight years, D) go talk to that pretty girl.
I don't believe fan arguments ever won out, and I've gotten modestly less geeky with the passage of the decades.
I admit, sometimes I've argued with myself if something *I* wrote is canon in my universe. Those can get heated, but there's only sometimes insults or raised voices.