I’m very pleased to be hosting brillliant author Shea Swain on my blog this month, for one of my ten-question interviews. 1) Shrinks would say that all our (writers’) characters are us, in some way, including the villains. Which character do you most strongly identify with – or, which character is most like you would…
The problem wasn’t the vocabulary we knew we had to learn, like “loo” or “water closet” for bathroom/toilet. It was the words we didn’t know we had to learn.
Writing is one of those weird businesses? Hobbies? Passions? where you can do it alone… but why would you want to? And realistically, as writers, we really can’t do it alone. We need cheerleaders, agents, editors (and of course, readers). I belong to several writers’ groups, both online and in person, and one of the most interesting…
I probably spent as much time living vicariously on the Jupiter 2, as a child, as was possible. Because even with intergalactic monsters and cosmic storms, there was a comforting expectation that at the end of the show, the family would be intact, Robot, Dr. Smith, and all.
The world is beautifully filled with diversity and there are so many WOC and AOC’s out there…who have stories to tell. I say tell them and snubbing be DAMNED. My self-care is that I remember how it was to struggle in school and then to find romance books that spoke to me and told me that love is something to celebrate. I’m not sorry to tell the world that love is love and should be colorblind. I am going to celebrate that fact. Without diversity the world will be gray, I prefer to live in Technicolor. Everyone deserves to see themselves in a story…I write those stories. My tagline is “Where Love is Colorblind,” I stand by that wholeheartedly.