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{{Person
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|name=Daniel M. Lavery
|birth=[[November 28]], [[1986]]<ref name="Thanksgiving">{{Cite_web|url=https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/finally-taking-my-own-advice-about|title=Finally Taking My Own Advice About Thanksgiving|author=Lavery, Daniel M.|date=2019-11-28|work=[https://www.shatnerchatner.com The Shatner Chatner]|quote=Today, as you likely know, is Thanksgiving in the States. It's also my 33rd birthday.|archivedate=20200422222917}} &mdash; Thirty-three years subtracted from [[November 28]], [[2019]], the date of Lavery's article, is [[November]] 28, [[1986]].</ref>
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|nationality=[[Wikipedia:Americans|American]]<ref name="FACPOV">''[[From a Certain Point of View]]''</ref>
|occupation=Writer<ref name="FACPOV" />
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{{Quote|I narrowed it down to Motti pretty quickly, because I love fussy bureaucrats. Vader, especially in the first film, feels so huge and terrifying and mysterious, and I loved the idea of someone who had to work with the guy on a regular basis and is really sick of dealing with him in meetings.|Daniel M. Lavery|<ref name="StarWars.com">{{SW|url=news/daniel-m-lavery-on-admiral-mottis-force-problems-in-from-a-certain-point-of-view|text=Daniel M. Lavery on Admiral Motti's Force Problems in ''From a Certain Point of View''}}</ref>}}
'''Daniel M. Lavery''' is the author of the short story "[[An Incident Report]]" from the [[2017]] anthology ''[[From a Certain Point of View]]''. Written from [[Admiral]] [[Conan Antonio Motti]]'s point of view, the story is similar in style to Lavery's articles on [[Wikipedia:The Toast (website)|''The Toast'']], a website which he co-founded.

==Biography==
{{Quote|I first got into the Expanded Universe [now Legends] novels when I was in fourth or fifth grade, and so I'd been waiting for an e-mail like the one Elizabeth sent me for roughly 19 years. My body was ready. I will write for ''Star Wars'' anytime, anywhere. I am all in.|Daniel M. Lavery|<ref name="StarWars.com" />}}
Daniel M. Lavery,<ref name="FACPOV" /> who was born on [[November 28]], [[1986]],<ref name="Thanksgiving" /> is an [[Wikipedia:Americans|American]] author who wrote the short story "[[An Incident Report]]" in ''[[From a Certain Point of View]]'', a [[2017]] anthology of stories set during<ref name="FACPOV" /> the [[1977]] [[original trilogy]] film, [[Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope|''Star Wars'': Episode IV ''A New Hope'']].<ref name="Episode IV">{{Film|IV}}</ref>

The editor of the anthology, [[Elizabeth Schaefer]], created a list of her favorite authors with whom she wished to work<ref name="The Making of">{{SW|url=news/making-from-a-certain-point-of-view|text=The Making of ''From a Certain Point of View''}}</ref> and invited Lavery to contribute. In an interview with [[StarWars.com]]'s [[Kristin Baver]], Lavery speculated that Schaefer was aware of his many tweets and articles on [[Wikipedia:The Toast (website)|''The Toast'']], a website which he co-founded, about the [[Star Wars Legends|''Star Wars'' Legends]] character [[Kyp Durron]] from ''[[Star Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy]]''. From a list of side characters in ''A New Hope'', Lavery selected [[Admiral]] [[Conan Antonio Motti]] and wrote about Motti filing a workplace incident report after he was [[Force choke]]d by [[Anakin Skywalker|Darth Vader]]. Lavery said he loves "fussy bureaucrats" and sought to capture his own impulses towards self-pitying and petty grievances taken to [[Galactic Empire|Imperial]] proportions by Motti. Baver and Lavery compared the story's style to his work on ''The Toast''.<ref name="StarWars.com" />

==Bibliography==
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|[[2017]]||"[[An Incident Report]]"&mdash;''[[From a Certain Point of View]]''||Short story in anthology<ref name="FACPOV" /> and [[From a Certain Point of View (audiobook)|audiobook]]<ref name="Audiobook">[[From a Certain Point of View (audiobook)|''From a Certain Point of View'' audiobook]]</ref>
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==Sources==
*{{SW|url=news/star-wars-from-a-certain-point-of-view-anthology-book-celebrates-40-years-of-a-galaxy-far-far-away|text=''Star Wars: From A Certain Point of View'' Anthology Book Celebrates 40 Years of a Galaxy Far, Far Away}}
*''[[From a Certain Point of View]]''
*[[From a Certain Point of View (audiobook)|''From a Certain Point of View'' audiobook]]
*{{SW|url=news/making-from-a-certain-point-of-view|text=The Making of ''From a Certain Point of View''}}
*{{SW|url=news/nycc-2017-highlights-from-a-certain-point-of-view-author-panel|text=NYCC 2017: Highlights From The ''From a Certain Point of View'' Author Panel}}
*{{SW|url=news/daniel-m-lavery-on-admiral-mottis-force-problems-in-from-a-certain-point-of-view|text=Daniel M. Lavery on Admiral Motti's Force Problems in ''From a Certain Point of View''}}

==Notes and references==
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==External links==
*[https://www.shatnerchatner.com Official website] {{C|[https://web.archive.org/web/20210320061612/https://www.shatnerchatner.com backup link]}}
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*{{Simon&Schuster|url=authors/Daniel-M-Lavery/146821625|text=Daniel M. Lavery|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210330025109/https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Daniel-M-Lavery/146821625}}

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