Empress of Dorsa Update: Total words today: 537Manuscript total: 80,630 Sorry I haven’t posted in a little while! I’ve been a busy busy girl. 🙂 On to the main topic of this post It started innocently enough. My friend W sent me a tumblr post of some lady warrior photos Read more…
Empress of Dorsa Update Total words today: 197 (but I’m about to have a writing date with a friend, so that total will go up!)Manuscript total: 25,099 This post is directed at people who have read my work without paying for it. And I don’t mean KindleUnlimited, and I don’t Read more…
Lockdown progress report for Saturday, May 16, 2020 Total words: 0 (I will start once this post is finished)Manuscript total: 67,802 I’m very visibly queer. I always have been. Everyone knew I was gay long before I figured it out myself; even in elementary school, people were calling me “queer” Read more…
Lockdown progress report for May 7, 2020 Total words: 0 (haven’t started yet)Manuscript total: 57,249 I keep reading news articles with desperate public health officials repeating the same thing over and over again: Choosing between keeping people alive and reopening the economy is a false dichotomy. – Public health officials, Read more…
Alright, so here’s a question for everyone: What defines lesbian fiction? For the month of December, I teamed up with three other lesbian writers (two of us with full-length novels already published; one of us published in a few literary journals; the last of us an aspiring novelist) who promised Read more…
I feel like I should be singing some Britney Spears — “Oops, I did it again.” I’ve written before about the dicey position of writing about race while white. But when I’ve written characters of color before, the issues they’ve faced around racism have always been an important but tangential Read more…
Yesterday, for the first time in my life, someone asked me, “What are your preferred pronouns?” I was sitting outside a Starbucks with my girlfriend, chatting about types of hot peppers, when one of her mom-friends walked out of the Starbucks with another mom, their two toddlers in tow. “LT!” Read more…
I’m so close to finishing Reverie, y’all. And I also woke up to the good news that Roy Moore lost in the special election in Alabama! (* non-Americans: see explanation below) What-what! When the national news had been reporting that “anything can happen in this election,” I thought to myself, Read more…
Regarding the Las Vegas shooting: Automatic assault rifles do not need to be legal in the United States or anywhere else. Yes, yes, the right to bear arms is a Constitutional right. Okay, no problem. Personally, I’m not a fan of handguns, shotguns, rifles, semi-automatic weapons — actually, I’m not Read more…
If you haven’t watched it yet, you need to see it. You need to educate yourself by getting inside the mindset of the white supremacists who would have us believe that their tribe is going to save this country. Look, I don’t like the news, either, but sometimes we need Read more…