The year’s about to end, and I’ve neglected this blog, so I thought I’d spend some time talking about a few things I’ve learned from this year’s launch. Outlaw Mage came out last August, and it’s interesting because it’s my first title that went through the Kickstarter route first. It was supported mainly by people …
I said last year that Outlaw Mage was dedicated to my daughters. In some ways, it is a love letter to them. A way for me to put down what I’ve had to learn in the last 24 years trying to navigate the Western World, which was so, so hard that I’ve lost count of …
Read more “An Apology to My Daughters #1: I’m Sorry for the Racists”
In my Agos-agan books, there’s a spell that mages can stamp on objects with a glyph to make them slip past people unnoticed. It’s inconspicuous, and so simple that even weaker mages are able to utilize it in dire circumstances. It’s appeared over and over again in my books, often as a plot point. It …
Read more “The Don’t Look Spell and My Recently Diagnosed ADHD”
I’ve got a ton of thinky-thoughts this Monday, and some of them revolves around the themes I’ve presented in Outlaw Mage. In Outlaw Mage, you have a main character desperately trying to carve out her own identity apart from her family–a theme so frequent in my novels it’s not a matter of IF it’ll show …
Read more “Children in the Diaspora, and Raising Them with Community in Mind”
It’s been years since BIPOC writers have heard the call for more diversity, more stories “from the other,” and other marginalized perspectives. And it’s wild how one of the takeaways for many of us is that even when they ask for it, they don’t get it. So many of these “calls for diversity and marginalized …
