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The Princess Magica Challenge, Chapters 1–2

Chapter 1: The Princess Challenge

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Jul 18

“why queer?”

some months ago, my friend linda shared with me part of the story of her wife, jo, defending her dissertation. jo had studied and written extensively on queerness in detective fiction. at last, the time came for her to before the committee, which included a straight white guy. his first…

LGBTQ

3 min read


Jun 30

why finishing my first draft felt like a death

i had been writing this book world for a while. i knew where i wanted this book to go generally and specifically. i had a plan for each character. i found a good ending. i typed the end. and i felt empty. like i had lost something. why whywhywhywhy i…

Writing

4 min read


Jun 25

abortion stops misery

1955: a career army officer and his wife are celebrating his (their) promotion. they get a little drunk (he’s an alcoholic) and have unprotected sex. she gets pregnant. with their fourth child. she is 35. she just got their third child out of the house and into school. she doesn’t…

Abortion Rights

2 min read


Jun 25

how to defeat dominionism

hi, ex-catholic here. i’m seeing some people saying if we just threaten them hard enough, the dominionist judges will get scared and restore our abortion rights. nothing could be further from the truth. two reasons: 1) the catholic justices grew up venerating martyrs. people who were so fucking serious about…

3 min read


Jun 17

the problem with prologues

we haven’t had the prologue talk recently, #amquerying friends, and based on timing, we’re due. a common question on this hashtag is if your submission package’s sample pages should include your prologue. no. they should not. because you should not HAVE a prologue. here’s why you should either rename your…

3 min read


Jun 2

the gay reason we won the revolution

one of my favorite facts about america is that we would probably still be a british territory if a man who was being persecuted for having gay sex in europe hadn’t fled for the colonies. his name is baron von steuben, and he trained up george washington’s continental army. being…

Pride Month

2 min read


May 3

My abortion rights story

we had a three-bedroom house. we had a school-age child. we had a younger child. we had a newborn. and we had a pregnancy we hadn’t planned for. we had said we’d do four. …

2 min read


Apr 27

Query help: How to fix first chapter bias

Over the past six years, I have edited roughly 1,500 initial query drafts. In a lot of them, a character, concept or detail is emphasized in the first or second sentence … and then never again. Here’s what I think is happening, then how to fix it. First, what’s happening: …

3 min read


Apr 25

Angel Hernandez is terrible: a compilation

Last night, Angel Hernandez officiated a baseball game, which is to say that last night, Angel Hernandez ruined a baseball game. But I’m not going to offer the 945,306th article about Kyle Schwarber informing Angel — on behalf of a league of exhausted and irate fans— that he is the…

MLB

5 min read

Angel Hernandez is terrible: a compilation
Angel Hernandez is terrible: a compilation
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