So now I've written four . . .
Novels, that is. I write about sapphic women — particularly those human beings we still sometimes refer to as lesbians.
I do this because I believe that we very much need to rediscover the truth about ourselves before the outrageous delusions our culture perpetuates about us destroy the entire planet.
This is why I write survival stories — stories of struggle and resilience, stories of strength, hope, and, of course, love. My stories have been described as dystopian, to which I say: Hey, look around — real life is dystopian, and I'm merely being realistic as I explore what it takes to survive and to genuinely love. Especially if you're a woman. Especially if you're a lesbian.
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My newest novel — Not All a Dream, which won a 2022 General Fiction award from the Golden Crown Literary Society — stays, for me, close to home, since the story takes place almost entirely in North Truro, Massachusetts, where I live, and begins right around now. So — this time I offer up present-tense rather than future-tense speculation about sapphic lives in these utterly strange times.
You can read Not All a Dream's back cover “blurb” here, and you can read the first chapter here.
In addition, I've posted the first chapters from my three earlier novels (the first of which won a Goldie, too) —
- Whatever Gods May Be
— Chapter One - Shadows of Something Real
— Chapter One - Omnipotence Enough
— Chapter One
— so you can get a sense of each one . . .
All of my novels, including Not All a Dream, are available from my publisher, Bold Strokes Books, as well as from any bookseller.
Also . . .
On this site I offer up some of my other stuff:
- Willa and her donuts, where I dabble in some quickfic on which I've imposed a few rules so things stay interesting (for the writer, anyway): Keep it short, first sentence must also be the title, write it in present tense without frills (Willa's donut dough doodles are a bonus).
- mirrors, where I've stashed a couple of essays — one about my experiences with breast cancer, the other about how old words impact the ways we see the world we live in now.