Electrical Current Events

I typically don't talk a lot about my WIPs -- for me, it's best to keep the steam in the boiler while I'm working on something, versus letting out details in dribs and drabs.

But I will say that two current WIPs -- both intended for trad markets -- are scaldingly, blisteringly, witheringly political in nature. And I'm fine with that. America's staggering along in a place that's ripe for satire. I can't pretend not to see what I'm seeing, and I certainly can't refrain from writing about it without feeling like I'm omitting something significant.

I don't apologize for being political. I'm honest about it, and I'm not didactic when I write about political topics. However, there are things just asking for satire, and I satirize them.

Deal with it

Writers and artists need to be tackling this stuff, because we're the sensitive, observant souls out there who are perceiving things that the "nice" people out there aren't comfortable talking about.