AWP; Dead Girls on Edelweiss and NetGalley; cat tax
Quick email of news!
First bit of news: I'll be at AWP this week, speaking on a panel with an incredible line up of other trans authors.
The Trans Fantastic: Craft, Themes, Reception
1:45pm - 3:00pm on Saturday February 10, 2024
Room 2504AB, Kansas City Convention Center
Maya Deane, Alina Boyden, Izzy Wasserstein, Megan Milks, and Nino Cipri
Literary realism has treated trans stories with skepticism, flattening trans lives to fit hostile narratives or excluding them completely. Trans writers have responded by embracing the fantastic. Join a panel of trans fantasists to discuss the uniquely transformative nature of our craft, themes, and readership in a time of artistic flowering and mounting danger.
I have made very few other plans for the convention -- if you know of any other amazing panels or offsite readings I should attend, please let me know!
Second bit of news: My theater-kid, lesbian, teen-angst short story "Ain't Houses, Ain't Names" made it to the 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List, where it's sharing room with a ton of amazing writers.
Third: Despite not coming out until November, e-arcs of Dead Girls Don't Dream are now available to read and review on Edelweiss and NetGalley. You can also mark it as "Want to Read" on GoodReads, which is incredibly helpful to me and my publisher.
Fourth (more of a reminder than news): My 4-week horror writing class will be starting on February 18th. You can see more info and sign up here at Atlas Obscura.
Last bit of news: Last week kinda sucked, and I was complaining out loud to Nibs about various things, and then the cat reached out his little paw and held hands with me. And I died.
