Terri had ended
Death and the Force, the last part of her Jedi Code Breakers series, with a sort of Ominous Chord [tm], an offhand reference to a mission to Naboo, which apparently caused some consternation among readers. So she decided the baby, the orphaned daughter of the dead OCs from Death and the Force, would save Qui-Gon's life. And she invited me to co-write.
I don't
mind denial, is the thing. After adherence to canon, my second most important criterion is internal consistency. So I thought, sure, co-writing should be fun.
And it was. The toughest part was smoothing over the edges between the bits she wrote and the bits I wrote. I can still see them clear as day; I hope the differences in our styles isn't as obvious to other readers.
Ki and Oh-Oh and the Big Bad Sith