Diverse Books Opinion
The author shares how a school visit gave her a new character name and a new connection with one young reader.
A poem about the dreams and fantasies, the anticipation, the doubts and insecurities, the frustrations, and finally, the pride of seeing something that I wrote actually out there in the world for others to read.
In every piece of art or writing, I’ve found a new truth layered in shadow, or dispelled old bitterness in an unexpected turn of phrase, or tugged an answer from a tangle of threads.
Queer representation is important for a whole host of reasons, and as a queer writer myself I wanted to put people like me at the forefront of the story.
Author S. A. Patrick speculates on the future of AI-written novels. "Whatever an AI creates, the human experience of reading will still be the final destination - the entire point of it, the arbiter of its success."
With all our diverse talents, we can protect this tight-knit community of magnificent, playful, and resilient whales—and the other incredible species and ecosystems on our planet.
To me, this is one of the best parts of writing and reading stories—getting a chance to visit some wonderful places on earth, even (maybe especially?) if it is from the comfort of my own snuggly bed.
Grief is weird. It’s hard. It’s a process.
When my therapist told me I was diagnosed as on the autism spectrum, I sobbed with joy and relief. There was something. Not wrong, but something that could explain why I was the way I was. I wasn’t just making it up.
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