Hey everyone and thanks for tuning in to an anime addicts anonymous podcast interview.

I'm Chiaki and Mitsuki is here with me and we have two authors with us which as

you everyone knows I'm quite excited about I love

getting to talk to fellow authors with us today is Stephen Savage and Bonnie

Walling and they wrote her eternal moonlight which is a book about Sailor Moon coming out.

And I will let them introduce themselves and let us know something that they want us to know.

Well, I'm Steve Sala. something that they want us to know.

Well, I'm Steve Savage. I'm one of the two authors on the project.

And we basically decided in a

wouldn't be great if someone wrote a book on Sailor Moon and then realized we decided to do it.

And then we wrote a book.

This is one of those late night conversations

that turned out to be very dangerous.

It's always nice when someone comes up with an interesting idea

and then follows through with it.

Something, says something born of the anime con spirit, I guess.

Bonnie?

Yes, it was most definitely born of the anime con spirit.

We basically were wondering, why has nobody done an examination of the sailor moon fandom before because we'd seen books examining other phandoms

You'd think that sailor moon would be obvious because it had been around for so long and yet no

one had done this and that inevitably led to us saying well why don't we do it?

And we noticed that it seemed especially the experience the female fans

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