It’s why I write queer characters – from the confident ones to those who get stuck on every detail. I want them to also reflect joy and sorrow and desire and drama. Because in some ways I still question and wonder, and I want my books to reflect that. So if one person – just one – finds my books and connects with them, I’m over the moon. So I read outside the lines and the margins and that damnable lens and found entirely new ways of seeing and thinking and being. Sometimes they could be charming and flirty, or the epitome of Damocles with a sword over his head. Maybe a little confused, maybe questioning or worried about who they were. So when I started writing – seriously writing – I wanted characters like me. But the older I got, the more I realized those stories – as glorious as they were – were largely through a heteronormative lens. “I grew up on stories of far away lands and heroic deeds. THIS #INDIEPRIDE SPOTLIGHT POST FOCUSES ON HALLI STARLING’S WILDERWOOD, TWELFTH MOON & ASK ME FOR FIRE
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