Alex Service (Osheen Nevoy): To anyone who's enjoying my writing (and if you are, thank you!!), thanks to my friend and fellow writer Monika the writings of our "Star Wars Literary Guild" have their own web site. So please, anybody and everybody, check out my novel "The Adventures of Darth Vader" (AU where Vader survives The Return of the Jedi and has to deal with the perils of family life), as well as Monika's version of films 1, 2 & 3, her superb novella "Admiral Piett and the Great Ewok Adventure", and fellow SWLG member Kirsty Hartsiotis' excellent "Boba Fett: The Unveiling". These can be found at http://www.geocities.com/swlg4 -- we'd love to have you visit!
I'm currently living in Dedham, MA, where I'm the Director/Curator at the Fairbanks House (built circa 1641, the oldest standing timber-framed building in North America). Previous jobs were two years working on the Historic Jamestowne project in Virginia and three years (for my sins) as Director of a local history museum in a small town in Wyoming. I grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, did my undergrad work at UCLA, and spent four years at the University of York in England, where I got my MA and D.Phil in Medieval Studies. There I met Monika Simon, Kirsty Hartsiotis and Michael Gaunt. The four of us formed the "Star Wars Literary Guild"; we three women wrote Star Wars fan novels, Michael gave advice and critiques, and we spent countless hours in the pub(s), talking about Anakin and Palpatine's drinking sessions, Luke's love life, and Han Solo's bathrobe. Strangely, people were afraid to sit near us in the pub. Michael and I have since married, with Kirsty and Monika as our witnesses. I have a terrible inability to accept the deaths of characters that I like, and so end up writing vast amounts of prose to bring them back to life.
The latest additions to our lives are baby twins, so my writing will no doubt continue to be sporadic as real life clamors noisily to be paid attention...