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Don't freak out at the name. We are two Star Wars fan ficcers who discovered we were writing the exact same Palpatine with only one difference in the canon timeline. One wrote Wife of Deceit, and the other wrote Midnight in the Garden, hence the name.

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Linda Lyons-Bailey

@gardenofdeceit

Star Wars nut into creative writing ... fanfiction and other. I also do some paid Star Wars news writing on DorkSideoftheForce.com.

Kaki Olsen

@kakiolsen

Boston-raised and BYU-educated, Kaki Olsen has been a published essayist, novelist, and a podcast co-host. Before all of that, she wrote fan fiction, a hobby she maintains to this day. Do not get her started on Tolkien or the Red Sox.