Reverie is my first book, and my only book, and now it’s published. It’s out there, and the thing that sustained me for so long has become something I hope others find refuge in. Or at least entertainment. Certainly bad puns.
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Exclusive REVERIE Cover Reveal + Excerpt @ Paste Magazine
That’s right! REVERIE now has a cover, and you can read the first chapter over at Paste Magazine, courtesy of Eric Smith! Link below. Also, you can pre-order REVERIE! It’s up on Amazon, with more options to come soon.
Read moreExclusive REVERIE Cover Reveal + Excerpt @ Paste Magazine
I’M GOING TO BE PUBLISHED. TWICE.
Permit me this one moment of unabashed pride: I GOT A BOOK DEAL. FOR MY VERY STRANGE, VERY QUEER FANTASY BOOK. MY FIRST BOOK. MY ONLY BOOK. AND SOMEHOW, THE DEAL IS FOR TWO BOOKS. I HAVE TO WRITE ANOTHER BOOK??? OH NO!!!
I’m attending the NYC Teen Author Festival!
Some more fun travel news! Right before I head to Texas for the Writing Barn’s Rainbow Weekend Intensive, I’ll be in New York City dropping in to the Teen Author Festival organized by David Levithan! Not speaking. Just watching. From the back. Just ferociously yearning, all the way in the back.
Writing in 2018
I didn’t write a ton in 2017, mostly because I was busy revising a project, revising it again, and then creating auxiliary resources (like a series synopsis) for submission. Once that all got handed over, my job as a writer became: WAITING. For the first time in two years I was without a project to hold my attention, and it was a feeling that was both liberating and stupefying. What was I going to work on next? I’ve avoided asking myself this for ages, for two reasons.
Some big news
Okay so I couldn’t really say anything about this until today but it’s official: I’m now represented by Veronica Park at Corvisiero! I’m absolutely beyond thrilled to be working with her and her agency. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m tortured by big decisions like this, but Veronica’s wit and savvy made this an easy one. I’m so glad to join her list of clients, and to demand all of her attention until she inevitably realizes she’s made a huge mistake and flees the country.
Plotting new things in 2017
For a while I avoided considering writing another book because it seemed like an act of defeat. It felt this way because my first book was this big, messy thing that lived in pieces upon my desktop, and I hadn’t really sent it around to agents, and it wasn’t published. For that reason alone, the idea of starting a new book felt like giving up on the old one.
April is LGBT Month! #LGBTApril
Laura (of Laura Plus Books) and Cayce (of Fighting Dreamer) are doing this great thing called LGBT Month this April (#LGBTApril), and I’m participating!
I mean, I guess I’m always participating, because every month is LGBT Month for me, but it’s more fun to do these sort of things when people are making cute banners for you, and when you’ve got a tribe bristling with restless inspiration and do-good vibes.
The Importance of Gay Heroes That Don’t Die
There are many tropes. Busty, blonde damsels. Brittle, brunette mistresses. Feisty, red-headed warriors. Alternatively: White-Male-Hero-With-Somnolent-Eyes-Yet-Aerodynamic-Cheek-Bones vs. Anything. Or the ever-plotless vengeance against a villain with no real motivation for villainy save an inscrutable need to inconvenience Our Hero. We know these tropes well. They’re practically family. If one came to your door and asked to come in, you might check for a judicious nod from your mother, but you’d open that door.
Beta Reading 2
Two updates!