I’ve Been Signed
Full details in a couple of days, but the contracts for my first two books are being drawn up.
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The Glorification of Abusive Relationships
Trigger Warning: Discussions of Child Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence I’m an abuse survivor. I’ve been pretty vocal about that over the years. I spent 21 years in an abusive home and 13 years in an abusive relationship. I was so used to the abuse and had been so thoroughly gaslit by my abusers that …
Ethnocentrism in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
I’m a huge Star Trek fan. Star Wars will always be my first love, but late one Saturday night when I was about seven years old, I was sitting in the living room long after I was supposed to be in bed, and I found a show I’ve never seen before called Star Trek. The …
Punching Down, or Why I Gave Up on Comedy
As I write this, it’s 11:04 AM on Saturday, October 16, 2021 and I just cancelled my Netflix subscription. If you’re wondering, yes, it is because of the Dave Chappelle special, or more specifically it’s because of the fallout from the Chappelle special and the way Netflix is treating their employees. This post will probably …
Screaming Into the Void
I’m a Babylon 5 fan. A huge Babylon 5 fan. I loved the show growing up. I occasionally slip homages or references into my work. Babylon 5 was, much like Star Wars and Star Trek, a formative experience for me, both as a person and as a creator. As some of you may know by …
I’m Not An Imposter (But I Sure Feel Like One).
CW: Homophobia, Transphobia, Trans-misogyny Two days ago, I started work on a new novel called ‘The Defective Paragons’. It took me a little over a day to write the first chapter, because I wanted to get it right. Actually, I wanted to get it perfect. I wanted to capture a specific feeling, but I struggled …
A Response to Entitlement and Privilege
This is a repost of a thread I posted over on my twitter account My Original Tweet: @straczynski Can you say one way or the other at this point whether we’ll get to see any explicitly queer characters this time? Response from: Ed C. Ex-cop. Linux-head. Day trader. @n7ekg Replying to @themollyjay and @straczynski Why …
The Myths of Forced Diversity and Virtue Signaling.
In my novel Mail Order Bride, the three main characters are a lesbian and two agendered aliens. In my novel Scatter, the main character is a lesbian, the love interest is a pansexual alien, and the major side characters include a half Cuban, half black Dominican lesbian, a Chinese Dragon, a New York born Jewish …
Status Report 09/23/21
Mail Order Bride: On Submission Scatter: On Submission The Master of Puppets: Getting a Pre-Edit Proof Read Transistor: Waiting for Pre-Edit Proof Read The Inevitable Singularity: Waiting for Pre-Edit Proof Read The Defective Paragons: Drafting Aether: Drafting Slick: Outlining The Long Way Round: Research Phase
Painful Realities and Comforting Lies
Earlier I made a post about Supergirl 6×12 and how Diverse and Marginalized voices are needed because they often speak to each other across lines of marginalization. The post came almost entirely out of my reaction to the episode, but I feel like I can’t address my own reaction without addressing other people’s reaction, and …