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January 3, 2017
ARC Reviewers!
Hello, everybody!
I’m on the look out for ARC Reviews for Codex Blair: Grave Mistake. This is an urban fantasy novel set in London. Generally recommended for ages 18+ but I could conceivably see 16+ depending on the maturity level and tastes of the reader.
Send me a message if you’re interested!
I am Blair Sheach. Screw up. Outcast. Wizard.
My life will never be the same. Let’s just say, new found powers do not a
hero make, and I’ve never been an exception. It was supposed to be a
simple case: find the client’s deadbeat, cheating husband, collect
money, and finally pay my rent. Turns out the wanker is a necromancer
hell bent on destroying London. Turns out necromancers are only part of
the problem in a city infested by vampires and demons. And magic cops
aren’t any better at cleaning them up than mundane ones. Then there’s
me, I’m no one special. Just the last line of defense.
I’m out of luck and out of time. And to save my city, the decision I have to make is one I can’t take back.
January 1, 2017
merigreenleaf:
anipendragon:
One day I am going to write an #OwnVoices book. And it’s going to have...
One day I am going to write an #OwnVoices book. And it’s going to have an agender protagonist who exclusively uses they/them pronouns. And it’s not going to be a big deal. It’s not going to be a coming out novel. It’s not going to be a novel about gender discovery.
That’s just who they are. They’ve already figured this out. Everyone else needs to catch up.
Then they get to go save the world and kiss a cute girl or smth.
I love the sound of this- I’d definitely read it! Go for it! :D
Love it, go for it! I’d read the heck out of it. I’ve got a nonbinary character in my book who is kickass, not finding themselves, and very comfortable with who they are. They’re one of my favorite characters, very dear to my heart.
I think representation of struggling is important, because it’s what a lot of people go through on their road to discovery, but I think it’s equally important to have strength representation. Representation of normalcy, representation that soothes the anxiety and creates a character people look up to and want to be.
December 30, 2016
The official cover for my book, Grave Mistake. I cannot put into...
The official cover for my book, Grave Mistake. I cannot put into words how happy I am with this!
Some people say that preorders on Amazon are not a good idea because of the way Amazon has changed it's algorithms -- having a huge spike of sales in one day isn't better than having a steady flow of sales for a few weeks. Are you still going to do preorde
Yes, I am. I don’t care much about Amazon rankings. They’re mostly vanity metrics. I just want my book to be accessible to readers.
December 13, 2016
December 12, 2016
Finding I have a lot of things I want to rant about but no energy to do the ranting. My life lately.
Finding I have a lot of things I want to rant about but no energy to do the ranting. My life lately.
December 5, 2016
Are people deliberately killing lesbians or trying to impart diversity and then killing them afterwards without really considering the implications? Gunmachine had a nice lesbian couple that survived and did well, as I recall. Not an expert, mind.
I’m not sure how serious this question was.
Obviously people are not deliberately killing lesbians. There’s probably a very small set of anti-lgbt writers out there who set out with the idea of ‘put the lesbian character in the book so we can punish and kill her to set an example.’
The rest of the lesbian characters we see dying in books(and the likelihood of dying as a lesbian in a book goes through the roof if a romance is involved) are the effect of either the subconscious effect of society on a person or what you said, forcing themselves to diversify their cast and potentially subconsciously hating or resenting the characters for having to railroad them into something other than what they had designed.
Because they don’t know how to write diversely and so they just sprinkle it on like a topping after the character has already been made.
So you can see that the problem is not people who set out to murder lesbians in their book or movie or what-have-you world, the problem is people who wade into writing a minority group without having educated themselves on how that minority group has been mortrayed in the media and how the minority group feels about that.
It’s like writing the absentee black father trope. Or magical negroe trope. Or fetishing skin colors that aren’t white by describing them with food. Coffee colored skin is just…bad. Just stop it. Those tropes need to be lit on fire. So does the trope of lesbians dying all the damn time.
If you want to read more on the topic, Writing With Color has an excellent directory post: http://writingwithcolor.tumblr.com/post/118799404887/asexuality-and-gender-identities-round-up and they also have one particular post that explains the issue very well, as well as other issues that frequently accompany it. http://writingwithcolor.tumblr.com/post/141618843977/femslash-and-interracial-relationships
