Queer writer of speculative and YA fiction
*record scratch, freeze frame* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation. (Sorry, I’ve always wanted to do that.) For some reason, this version of me has been on my mind a bit lately. Maybe that’s because I’m revising a young adult novel and trying to tap into the feeling I …
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I usually try to confine my posts here to writing, books, and Captain Janeway, but It's National Coming Out Day in the U.S., and I'm sure it comes as no surprise to anyone that I'm gay. Gay gay gay gay gay. Like, realllly gay. (Seriously, ask me about my Wonder Woman bracelets sometime.) But anyway. …
I think I was nineteen or so when I set foot inside my first gay bar. (Which makes it sound like an alternative playset for Barbie, doesn’t it? Barbie’s First Gay Bar. Hopefully she won’t find Ken in there with GI Joe.) They were complicated places for me at first, gay bars, since I felt …