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cornerofmadnessabout my writing since today was dull but then I looked at my bank account and realized I'm so broke I don't have enough money to pay the big loan (well I took it out of savings but now those are gone). Need to check over finances to find out why so broke. AND this is when they try to readjust my student loans to higher payments. I hate Jan/Feb for that alone. Now I'm too depressed to work on that writing post.
However I will ask you all this. They had an interesting thread on one of the author's lists about NOT using the erotica pen name (sounds like some publishers are pushing for this) for YA and picking another. Now I'm not sure that I want a THIRD pen name just to do LGBT YA. I can definitely see why you wouldn't want to use your erotica pen name given the age group. My question is does the stigma still exist when it comes to writing homosexual fiction? I should sure as hell hope not. It was horrible back in the day to know you couldn't really write that without people questioning you. I would like to think that I could use Eliana D. Evans to write a gay YA without say, Harper Voyager looking at my werewolf YA and say, 'we don't want to have someone with that branding in her background.' Anyone have any insight into this?
To make me less depressed, let me relate the crazy dreams from last night.
the first was I was going to the space station with my cats in tow. ELD was giving me shit for taking them. She kept saying it was animal abuse. Kanda wasn't very happy about going and I never did get a good look at my other cat. I can not remember why in the name of god I was going to space but it was for important research. My friend, the lady reverend was enabling me but she would only talk to me via a little computer that printed out messages on Hello Kitty stationary....
I woke up from that one and had another. This time I was working home health again. I had a companion (I think it was ELD but I 'm not sure). One patient who had an overgrown garden of backyard was busy refusing service and I'm like she's so familiar. Then she recognized me as being her doctor when we were both in OH (I think we were in WI now). Then the dream morphed. It was quite long but the upshot is me and my companion were picked up by a group to go on a tour but we ended up in Israel which was involved deeply in a war and I had just been shanghaied to be a MASH surgeon (everyone on the tour were medical personnel). All I could really think about was escaping with my companion. After a tense OR session in a bombed out building we were taken to a cook out in a city alley but it had religious overtones (though not really anything Judeo-Christian) I do remember a lot of white haired, bearded old men in bejeweled robes but the alarm woke me before I could figure out what was going on.
Declutter day 9 - what was tossed - Brown jeweled dress shirt why kept - Nice shirt why tossed -Hadn’t worn in a year, time to give it to someone who’ll appreciate it more
However I will ask you all this. They had an interesting thread on one of the author's lists about NOT using the erotica pen name (sounds like some publishers are pushing for this) for YA and picking another. Now I'm not sure that I want a THIRD pen name just to do LGBT YA. I can definitely see why you wouldn't want to use your erotica pen name given the age group. My question is does the stigma still exist when it comes to writing homosexual fiction? I should sure as hell hope not. It was horrible back in the day to know you couldn't really write that without people questioning you. I would like to think that I could use Eliana D. Evans to write a gay YA without say, Harper Voyager looking at my werewolf YA and say, 'we don't want to have someone with that branding in her background.' Anyone have any insight into this?
To make me less depressed, let me relate the crazy dreams from last night.
the first was I was going to the space station with my cats in tow. ELD was giving me shit for taking them. She kept saying it was animal abuse. Kanda wasn't very happy about going and I never did get a good look at my other cat. I can not remember why in the name of god I was going to space but it was for important research. My friend, the lady reverend was enabling me but she would only talk to me via a little computer that printed out messages on Hello Kitty stationary....
I woke up from that one and had another. This time I was working home health again. I had a companion (I think it was ELD but I 'm not sure). One patient who had an overgrown garden of backyard was busy refusing service and I'm like she's so familiar. Then she recognized me as being her doctor when we were both in OH (I think we were in WI now). Then the dream morphed. It was quite long but the upshot is me and my companion were picked up by a group to go on a tour but we ended up in Israel which was involved deeply in a war and I had just been shanghaied to be a MASH surgeon (everyone on the tour were medical personnel). All I could really think about was escaping with my companion. After a tense OR session in a bombed out building we were taken to a cook out in a city alley but it had religious overtones (though not really anything Judeo-Christian) I do remember a lot of white haired, bearded old men in bejeweled robes but the alarm woke me before I could figure out what was going on.
Declutter day 9 - what was tossed - Brown jeweled dress shirt why kept - Nice shirt why tossed -Hadn’t worn in a year, time to give it to someone who’ll appreciate it more
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Date: 2013-01-23 04:35 am (UTC)I don't know why you couldn't use one name for YA of all sorts. I mean, other writers use one name for cross-posting various genres (looking at you, J K Rowling, and Tanith Lee and Andre Norton and....)
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Date: 2013-01-23 04:39 am (UTC)Well yes but I'm thinking more of the you write queer stuff, we dont' want you writing for us' angle because that is how it used to be
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Date: 2013-01-23 05:06 am (UTC)Mmm...Maybe.
Rita Mae Brown's another one.
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Date: 2013-01-23 05:07 am (UTC)yes, Barbara hambly is as well. hmmmm of course I could point out I do have a novel out there...but I have no idea if that's still a detriment or not
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Date: 2013-01-23 01:20 pm (UTC)Yeaaaaaaah. Too bad you can't ask someone...with a lot more experience.
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Date: 2013-01-23 03:26 pm (UTC)and also true and I can't really ask the list because they would a) be offended that anyone would think that's an issue (well I am too) and b) most of them are as new to this as me
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Date: 2013-01-24 12:03 am (UTC)