Know what I love? Book sales! Know which ones I love best? Non-fiction. Know why? Characters! Whether you’re writing science fiction, fantasy, historical, mystery, or non-genre, your characters have to have a setting. They have to have a back story. They have an ethnicity. Even…
Two of my friends have new books out, and both these books are about trans women, both set in the wild west! Well, Victor’s book isn’t new new, but it’s newly reissued. Victor J. Banis‘ book Lola Dances is out for Kindle and in paperback.…
When I was little, I checked Andrew Lang‘s Rainbow Fairy Books. Andrew Lang, in case you aren’t familiar with this wonderful collection, was a Scottish anthropologist, historian, writer, and collector of folk and fairy tales. I told myself that, when I was big, I would…
