September 23, 2022

live from the forest, it's e.m. anderson! - in which you may perceive me, a bisexual

let's have a bit of bi!E lore

considering all the signs that were there, I took an embarrassingly long time to figure out I was bi.

in my defense, I didn't have much exposure to queer things or queer culture or the queer community. I watched rent on demand with my mom and my sisters in, like, middle school. there was a gsa at my high school (shockingly, since it in rural michigan), but I didn't know what that meant. I had queer friends (I now know), but most of them were similarly clueless about their own identities at the time and kept wondering why they were so unhappy in their pursuit of relationships.

but I mean. I have never in my life been able to sit properly in a chair, except under extreme duress and discomfort (like highly formal meetings at work, rip me). I love iced lattes with oat milk. my favorite outfit is an oversized sweater, cuffed skinny jeans, and white tennis shoes.

okay, okay. I kid. sort of. but Baby E liked to draw a lot. and if she was figure-drawing, she liked drawing women. because women are curvy! men are so flat! obviously women are simply more interesting to draw! any artist would think so! objectively!

and Baby E loved the lotr movies. very specifically, Baby E loved aragorn and arwen. did she stare at arwen unceasingly whenever liv tyler was on screen? yes! but! liv tyler-as-arwen is beautiful! objectively! who among us would not stare at her unceasingly and draw her all the time and use her as the basis for the main character of our first-ever fantasy "novel"!?

(that last bit is entirely true and also painfully obvious if you actually read said "novel." which you will never do, because it is cringe and shall never see the light of day. but I did livetweet my own readthrough last year.)

like, bby no. these are not objective truths. you are bi as heck.

actually it's a good thing Baby E eventually figured things out, because Current E is hardcore crushing on a ridiculously attractive coworker rn, and it would probably be a thousand times more terrible if THIS was her bi awakening.

book things

the remarkable retirement of edna fisher

splendid news, chums! hansen house has partnered with hear our voices (hov) to do a cover reveal on october 31.

(!!!)(!!!!!)

I was blown away when hov reached out to me, because ??? I am ??? but a little indie author with a small publisher and no marketing prowess of which to speak ??? and hov has done reveals and book blog tours for some amazing books by well-known authors.

admittedly this is, like, always my reaction when I learn that people are talking about my book in any space I'm not in. whether it's booktok or a discord book community, any time I hear that people are talking excitedly about Edna's release, I'm a little like "omg 🥺".

but I'm mostly like, "how did they find me???"

obviously it's a good surprise! it's just. a surprise.

anyway, hov is currently looking for reviewers to participate in the cover reveal on social media. sign up here if interested!

stay tuned for the reveal! newsletter subscribers will have an exclusive reveal on october 28 👀

in the meantime, add edna on goodreads or storygraph, or preorder her in hardcover or paperback. more buy links to come!

writing & whatnot

on one hand, I have yet to start a new wip that is an actual, serious wip. on the other hand, I have written a 10k+ post-story fic about a side character in remarkable retirement and vaguely started potentially planning for revisions to a shelved wip set in the same world. where is any of this actually going? possibly nowhere, but at least I'm stretching the writing muscles and having fun with zero pressure.

obligatory new york pictures

time for some sculpture and art! some of the below pictures are of actual attractions, like the one of the statue of balto in central park. others are just things I thought looked cool, like random architectural details and subway tiles.

I probably spent more time photographing random architectural details and subway tiles than I did actual attractions, which is very on-brand for me.

I have...so many more of these. plus street corners and intersections. because after a visit to the stonewall inn and monument on my last night in the city, I was in love with the buildings at sunset.