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Together is a Distant Star is finally released into the wild!! 12 stories by 12 authors from 6 continents! Ranging from dark to light, scifi to fantasy, we each wrote a story that resonates with the theme of belonging. Join us in our quest to figure out how far we'd go to find where we belong.

If you've got a craving for why choose books but don't know what to read, check out this link. There's a bunch all across genres. There's sure to be something that catches your eye ^_^

Click here!

Some of them are mine but most of them are not. It's pretty cool seeing them all stacked up like this ^_^

For these other books, one is a series that will have my map in a later book and the other is in the special edition hardback of Hunger Pangs

Or at the very least, release the murder babies.

Shadows Dark and Deadly is officially out in the wild!

Buy it here: https://books2read.com/ShadowsDarkandDeadly

Since Shadows Dark and Deadly is in a bunch of fantastic promos and lists this month I thought I would put them all in an easy to find place.

But first a reminder that you can preorder it now and also add it on goodreads

Pre-order: https://books2read.com/u/3L8k2e Goodreads: http://goodreads.com/book/show/2107

Now for the lists and things ^_^

Shadows Dark and Deadly is in this promo with a bunch of other great books ^_^

Check it out https://books.bookfunnel.com/spacewizardsciencefantasy/vsj4xf3bdr

Rainbow Crate's queer June releases list. Look at all these books coming out this month!

Swords and Sapphics queer June release list. I just love how many queer books are coming out this month ^_^

This is a list of indie books that have come out or will be coming out this year. A lot of great stuff here.

Check it out: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/marienettist/2024-indie-book-releases/

This is a featured list of romance reads for June. Some cool looking stuff there

https://kaleidoscoperomance.com/featured-reads

And last thing: Another list! And the other books look intriguing

https://authorniranjan.in/noteworthy-new

Shadows Dark and Deadly is my dark and steamy queer gaslamp romantasy and it's coming out June 15th!

Pre-order here!

Add it on Goodreads!

Blurby blurb:

You ask an ADHD person to do something, you're getting it RIGHT NOW or NEVER. Those are the only two times.

Thanks for the tags. I could honestly talk about this for years (and have), but my main complaint with this particular book and a lot like them is the lack of consistency and the glorification of denying oneself accommodations because it makes the character "stronger."

Despite the author herself being disabled and giving fairly in-depth descriptions of the character being disabled, it doesn't actually seem to matter unless the author wants it to for plot reasons.

The main character is capable of great feats with barely any consequences except when it comes to moments of intimacy, which feels... infantilizing is the wrong word, or maybe it's not, I don't know.

It feels weird, put it that way. I feel very yucky reading it.

If I were the editor for this (laughably, I think I might know who was, and now I'm even angrier), I would have gone back and done much like you're suggesting @most-definitively-a-human and kept track of what things the character is being described as having, and then made sure I was consistent in how it presents.

So, if a character walks with a limp, how does that limp affect their walking speed? What does that mean for how they fight? Can they fight? If so, what adaptations do they make to their fighting style that accommodates their mobility issues? Do they use a mobility aid? Is that included?

If they are able to push themselves to be "normal" because of adrenaline or whatever, there still needs to be a payout for that in the aftermath. What does that look like? How do they recover?

You can't have them shrug it off, strike a hero pose, and then later on go back to being the weak and feeble "burden" of the narrative when it suits. (I mean, you can, but y'know, we're aiming to do better than that.)

Basically, just be mindful of what you're trying to portray and make sure there are good reasons for the things you are writing, and you're just not turning the "representation" on and off when it suits you.

Also, I'm sick of disabled characters who hate their mobility aids. Like, I get it; it's an adjustment and often not a comfortable one if you're new to being disabled. But realistically, if I'm a superhero performing impossible feats, I'm not going to spend hours staring in hatred at the braces that keep my joints from falling out of my sockets.

I got a stack of my lil novelettes to sign & sell when it comes up

Just wanted to share the pretty artwork (all human made)

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