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I think people just generally forget that a character having an identity is that character living that identity. "Can we get more examples of this character being X?" Like, no,

Exactly one year ago today, I received the offer for MEET CUTE DIARY, my YA romcom about a trans boy, his romance blog, and the fake relationship he stages to

If you need to unfollow me, feel free to do so, but I truly *cannot* handle all the "why does nobldy care about this?!?!" guilt trip tweets.There are 10,000 earth-shattering

It's #PronounDay so let's talk a little bit about MEET CUTE DIARY, my pronouns, and the way I explored my own pronouns through my debut!Meet Devin! When Devin first enters

Can we talk about ownvoices, from a less white lens, for a second?I'm seeing comments like "this is why ownvoices is toxic" and "ownvoices does more harm than good" and

Okay, so this thread is *not* an invitation to attack anyone, but I'm not the type of person to see an obvious scam and just ignore it. So today I

I'm seeing some stuff going around so I do want to follow up my previous ownvoices thread with this:Asking if a book is ownvoices is not "forcing people to come

Joke's on me. I just spent a half hour thinking about an essay I want to write about how "Your MC lacks agency" is inherently racist and ethnocentric LMFAOhttps://twitter.com/EmeryLeeWho/status/1293771181401620480 I

I keep seeing people say "But you *used* to say we could write PoC MCs as long as we weren't co-opting stories *about* being PoC???"And yes, we did. Because y'all

All of this, and adding: Books with 13-15 year old protags doing these things/focus on readers of that age range even if the protags aren't.We gotta stop losing readers as

With #DVPit coming up, I'm seeing a lot of querying/pitch advice going around so, true to my chaotic nature, I'm gonna give you this anti-advice thread.AKA: You've Heard The Rules,

As people discuss why it's inappropriate to put your name all over someone else's work, a reminder that you shouldn't use copyrighted images to promote your books.Unless it's licensed for