Stories on the edge of familiarity
The news broke today that Holly Lisle, author and teacher, passed on August 27th. I didn’t know her personally, but she is absolutely the reason this site, not to mention my life as it currently is, exists. Back when I was getting ready to start my first year of university, I had enough extra money to buy a MacBook. It was my first laptop and the first computer that was properly mine. The first thing I did with it was
It’s considered bad form to mention in blog posts how long it’s been since you last published a blog post, so please excuse my bad form as I bring attention to the fact that it’s been a long while since I last wrote a blog post. What I’m supposed to do instead is get right back into things like I haven’t left, but that would be dishonest of me. The truth is, I’ve been struggling for the past several years-
When I started writing, I didn’t think about how people would react to my characters for simply existing as themselves. This is partially because I was eleven and partially because I wrote characters no-one in my social circle would really object to (except maybe in the case of their gender). To be blunt, I wrote straight, cis, able-bodied white characters who were, by default, Christian. And if they weren’t Christian, it was either because they’d never heard of Christianity or
For most of the years since my first book came out, I’ve been somewhat aggressively been focusing on one project at a time. This is mainly because, when I started publishing, I was still in university and it was really only the summers where I could focus on writing and publishing in any meaningful way. Which meant, in order to get a something done in those four months, I had to be really specific on what that something was and
I’ve been working with Airtable lately, which is a platform where you can really do all kinds of things with, but what I’ve done with it the past few days is put together a database of everything I’ve written that’s available somewhere (whether to buy or read for free). It also features a nice little workflow showing where various books are at in the process of getting them published. For example, right now it has a new novel at the
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