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Follow Up to Leia in an X-Wing
When Dark Horse first announced Brian Wood’s upcoming Dark Horse comic – titled simply Star Wars – back in July, my favorite part of the news was the revelation that Leia would be an X-Wing pilot,...
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Leia, More Leia, and Ania
After the holiday rush, it’s time to catch up on a bit of recent news about several exciting projects in the works in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Newsarama published a great interview with Brian...
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Female Protagonists in Star Wars
If you went to the comic book store this weekend looking for Dark Horse’s new Star Wars #1 from Brian Wood, then you probably met with some disappointment. While it is still available in digital...
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Creating Lasting Impressions of Female Characters in Star Wars
Last Friday, Laura Hudson’s opinion piece at Wired.com, Leia Is Not Enough: Star Wars and the Woman Problem in Hollywood, discussed the Star Wars movies as illustrations of a broader imbalance in...
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Fangirls Around the Web: March 10, 2013
Let’s kick off this edition of Fangirls Around the Web with updates from the world of Star Wars. Today’s picture was featured on the official Star Wars Facebook page. Congratulations to Amy Ratcliffe...
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More on Women in Fandom
Earlier this week I discussed my concerns for women in the Star Wars fandom after the cancellation of The Clone Wars, which featured some of the best characterization of female characters. Here are a...
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Fans Talking Star Wars, Madness, and Fan Fiction
Catching up on the world wide web of Star Wars… I’ve already shared my perspective on the need to dispel the perception that “Star Wars is for boys.” This week the two remaining female characters, both...
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More on Storytelling, Teamwork and Gender Balance
The importance of the presence of women as storytellers has been an ongoing discussion at the blog. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve found a least a few occasions to go back to that point, which...
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Vader’s Little Princess
Today marks the release of Vader’s Little Princess by author/artist Jeffrey Brown. A sequel of sorts to his highly acclaimed Darth Vader and Son, also from Chronicle Books, the new book imagines the...
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Leia’s Ready for Action
Earlier today, io9 premiered our first look at the cover for Martha Wells’ Leia novel, Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion: Razor’s Edge. First announced at Celebration VI, the book is now scheduled for an...
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Coffee With Kenobi Discusses the Ladies of Star Wars
Last week I had the pleasure of appearing on the podcast Coffee With Kenobi to discuss the female characters of Star Wars from a storytelling perspective. We dove into topics like agency, strengths as...
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Fangirls Around the Web: San Diego Comic-Con 2013 Edition – Part One: Star Wars
In advance of San Diego Comic-Con this year, the L.A. Times Hero Complex reported on the “new wave of strong female-led sci-fi” with movies like Catching Fire and Divergent leading the way. Katniss...
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Agent of My Own Destiny: A Discussion of Character Agency
Sitting atop my blog to-do list were three items: a major revision to my query letter, a post on character agency, and promote my novel Wynde. The query letter revisions resulted in much blank staring...
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More Leia in Star Wars Insider #145!
From Frank Parisi on the Star Wars Books Facebook page: We are pleased to announce that Lucasfilm Senior Editor Jen Heddle has penned a short story starring a certain rebel princess for Star Wars...
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Kay Reviews Razor’s Edge by Martha Wells
Last week FANgirl hosted the Razor’s Edge art reveal, featuring excerpts from the book, links to interviews with author Martha Wells, and an interview with artist Magali Villeneuve, who created the...
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Marvel’s Princess Leia #1 Begins Today
Today is the first issue of Marvel’s mini-series Princess Leia, from writer Mark Waid and artist Terry Dodson. I’ve been excited for the comic since it was announced at San Diego Comic-Con in July...
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Killing Your Darlings: The Life and Death of Ahsoka Tano
One of the goals for our podcast Hyperspace Theories is using the perspective of storytelling to inform the process of speculation about future Star Wars tales. While promotional reveals and rumored...
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Slave Leia Sells? Amy Schumer, Boy Toys, and the Star Wars Fandom Double...
One week after we celebrated our first glimpse of Leia rocking a commanding costume in the behind-the-scenes reel from the The Force Awakens panel at San Diego Comic-Con, which followed two outstanding...
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Tricia Talks Marvel’s Princess Leia on Mos Eisley Comicport
Writing last week about Princess Leia and the context surrounding her character as an empowered female in storytelling resulted in some of the highest hits this site has seen. “Slave Leia Sells? Amy...
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Journey to The Force Awakens: Original Trilogy Big Three Adventures
As part of the Force Friday marketing campaign, most of the books in the “Journey to The Force Awakens” publishing program made their debut on September 4. Among the twenty offerings are three new...
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