When Andor was first announced, I remember wondering why they’d chosen to explore Cassian’s backstory. If any Rogue One character seemed ripe for a spin-off, surely it was Jyn Erso? But I’m an optimistic Star Wars fan—grateful for the stories we get rather than being the kind to tear them apart detail by detail.

It doesn’t feel like that long ago I was writing a blog post about being stuck in the querying trenches, feeling utterly soul-destroyed...

They say a joke is like a frog: if you dissect it, you kill it. But puns? Puns are like linguistic hydras—cut one apart, and two more...