Tag: Authors

That got me thinking: Why do we label female authors that way? I can’t recall having seen Arthur Conan Doyle called “the king of crime fiction.” Nor have I seen that label applied to Edgar Allan Poe or Georges Simenon or any of the other men who might have qualified. Something s...

What could be more important than access to queer fiction? A wide variety of LGTBQ+ nonfiction for parents and children to choose from. When LGBTQ+ literature is banned, we lose the opportunity for kids to see others like themselves in media, and they and their parents miss out on seeing all the ...

First and foremost, Black Lives Matter. For Black History Month, I’ve compiled this list of books, poems, and short stories to read that are all written by Black authors. For non-Black readers, and White allies such as myself, it is important to remember that we should be educating ...

When I wrote “Causality”, I thought it was a stand-alone story. I thought it was the end of the story. But that isn’t how a writer’s mind works. Paraphrasing several great writers: A story is never finished, only abandoned. I suppose I wasn’t ready t...