Interview with Carolyn Golledge
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| Title: | Interview with Carolyn Golledge |
| Interviewer: | Rooqoo Depot |
| Interviewee: | Carolyn Golledge |
| Date(s): | 2013 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Star Wars |
| External Links: | Interview with Carolyn Golledge, Archived version |
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Excerpts
How did you get started writing short stories for the Star Wars Adventure Journal? I had been writing Star Wars fanfiction since 1985, my often novella length stories printed in fanzines such as A Tremor in The Force, and the amusingly named, Wookiee Commode, and I Don’t Care What You Smell. All we fans were most excited about the professionally licensed books coming out. I wrote a long letter… snail mail! ... to Kathy Tyers telling her how very much I had enjoyed The Truce at Bakura. She floored me by not only writing back, but also saying she’d read and enjoyed my fanfiction, and she suggested I contact the newly developing Star Wars Adventure Journal. I did so, and very quickly heard back … they wanted me to write for them! To say I was excited is a big understatement. Kathy Tyers had said she’d put in a good word for me, and I’ll always be immensely grateful, as her kindness launched my professional career and made it possible for me to get an agent in UK.
How did the The Corellian Embassy come about and what was it like working with author [Martha Wilson]? The initial impetus came from our dissatisfaction with a fanzine editor who repeatedly and radically altered our stories without permission — note NOT those mentioned above. Finally, me being Australian, I knew that people overseas couldn’t afford the high expense of Air Mail to buy fanzines. Martha worked in website design, which back in 1998 was new stuff. She is a wonderful lady and a good friend who also was a big help in developing my writing skills. I did the collecting of permissions from authors, and put in months of laborious scanning of stories from old fanzines. Martha put in equally long hours redoing formatting and HTML script and other techno stuff about which I knew nada. It was a very popular website and it’s very sad to think it’s forever gone. I’m currently trying to track down the files (both Martha and I had our old computers die with them) and am hoping that someday soon the Embassy will again be open for reading! There is so much fun to be had in further exploring the Star Wars realm and many talented people who want to write or become artists. When I began my own print zine, Bloodstripe, in 1999, it was a great privilege to find talent from many countries; one issue I believe had at least 8 different countries represented from Asia, through Europe and USA. It brought so many people together and created many friendships.