On Friday, October 29th, at 7:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, I received an email. The subject read, “manuscripts” and the body of the message was: “Hi Molly, The Submission Committee has sent me their responses concerning your manuscripts and I would like to discuss contracts publishing both of them. Can we have a skype or …
I was born in 1976, so must of my childhood memories are from the 80’s and 90’s. My first real moment of political awareness was Reagan getting shot. Before that, I’m not sure I was aware that we had anything called a President, or a government. I might have been, but if I was, I …
I’m so excited right now that just sitting down to write this announcement is a challenge. Back in July of this year, I submitted two manuscripts to Desert Palm Press, and for the last three months, I have been on pins and needles, but today, I am happy to say that they have picked up …
Full details in a couple of days, but the contracts for my first two books are being drawn up.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …