What Would Hild Do?

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I have a short piece in the new issue of DIVA magazine — my story of how Hild’s bloody-mindedness informed my own as I battled homophobic US immigration law (and won—my case made new law) and as a result ended up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal as an example of the country’s failing morals

Here’s the opening paragraph:

Menewood is my second novel about Hilda of Whitby, an Early Medieval saint. In my story Hild is young, but neither saintly nor sweet—she could not afford to be. In the Early Medieval, nice girls could not become famous enough to be saints. Nice girls didn’t lead armies, kill kings, or change the course of history. And nice girls most definitely did not have terrifyingly exhilarating sex…

Read the rest here