Christopher Hawthorne Moss (born January 1, 1952)
Kit wrote his first short story when he was seven years old. When summer camp friend Laura and he started their florid medieval saga they called "The Story" Kit became a regular writer, with mostly wry humorous stories written with like-minded friends.
Kit had a stint writing copy for web sites, and he published a nonfiction work in 1991 titles LOVING THE GODDESS WITHIN.
Kit had been participating in a collaborative writing group called Ghostletters on Yahoogroups, at one point starting to rewrite "The Story" from an adult perspective. He realized he had a novel in all these tales and published it as AN INVOLUNTARY KING which he published independently in 2008. It was such a successful experience he decided to make historical novel writing a career.
Since that book he has continued to write stories, articles, reviews, and more novels, most recently with GLBT themes. He is devoted to using historical fiction to solve the erasure of GLBT history. He became the editor of OUr Story: GLBTQ Historical Fiction for GLBT Bookshelf.
Kit is transgender (FTM) and plans to apply the same plans to transgender fiction.
He lives in the Seattle area with his husband and their doted upon cats.
Beloved Pilgrim won a 2014 Rainbow Award as Best Transgender Fiction.
Beloved Pilgrim by Christopher Hawthorne Moss
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Harmony Ink Press; Library edition (April 23, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1627985409
ISBN-13: 978-1627985406
Amazon: Beloved Pilgrim
Amazon Kindle: Beloved Pilgrim
At the time of the earliest Crusades, young noblewoman Elisabeth longs to be the person she’s always known is hidden inside. When her twin brother perishes from a fever, Elisabeth takes his identity to live as a man, a knight. As Elias, he travels to the Holy Land, to adventure, passion, death, and a lesson that honor is sometimes found in unexpected places.
Elias must pass among knights and soldiers, survive furious battle, deadly privations, moral uncertainty, and treachery if he’ll have any chance of returning to his newfound love in the magnificent city of Constantinople.
More Rainbow Awards at my website: www.elisarolle.com/, Rainbow Awards/2014
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