July 2012 Preview
Previewing July 2012 on FANgirl Blog.
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Fangirls Around the Web: June 29, 2012
Fangirls spotted around the web for the week of June 29.
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Interview: Victoria Schmidt aka “Scruffy Rebel”
FANgirl interviews Victoria Schmidt aka “Scruffy Rebel”
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X-wings, Insiders, and Swag
Issues #134 and #135 have a lot of great material for Expanded Universe fans, including Tricia’s interview with Aaron Allston about X-Wing: Mercy Kill.
Read moreZahn’s Choices of One in Paperback
Timothy Zahn’s Choices of One paperback edition goes on sale today.
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Remembering Racheal
Remembering my friend Racheal Ambrose (1987-2012).
Read moreRacheal Ambrose – A Fangirl Lost
From her blog The Galactic Drift, posted last night by Racheal’s husband: I just thought I should inform anyone who
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Fangirls Around the Web: June 22
Highlighting heroines and fangirls spotted around the web for the week of June 22.
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Karen Miller Discusses Star Wars Fandom, Feminism, and Writing
This morning Liz Bourke of Tor.com posted a lengthy interview with author Karen Miller, who wrote three Star Wars novels published in 2008 and 2010 tying into the first two seasons of The Clone Wars animated series. Miller discusses her writing, feminism, and the state of genre publishing in Australia and the U.K. compared to the United States. The interview is insightful and is definitely worth a read in its entirety, but I found some of her comments about Star Wars and its fandom particularly compelling.
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Star Wars Weekends 2012: Even More Merchandise Shopping
When I returned to Star Wars Weekends for the third and fourth weekends, more merchandise was bound to be purchased. There are so many enticing options, and some of them I just couldn’t pass up.
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