6 of 7: My Victorian YA and crossdressing flight attendant
Here's a bit of a cheat - two publications for the price of one post! Both of these anthologies were edited by the fabulous Ekaterina Sedia and came out recently. Kathy is a great editor who really rounds up interesting fiction and these are my second and third anthologies with her. (The first was Bewere the Night, where I wrote about a cursed lawyer in Brooklyn).
For the YA anthology, Willful Impropriety, the theme was Victorian romance with an edge. I wrote a take-off on Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden. The original text ditches all characters of color pretty early on, so I decided to bring a teenage Indian servant back to Misselthwaite Manor. I combed through some annotated versions of TSG and researched colonial India and had a great time figuring out logistics. My favorite character is -- well, there aren't a lot, because hello, big giant empty house on the moors, but let's just say he looks like a teenage Jensen Ackles to me.
Bloody Fabulous is all about fashion and magic and fun things, and my story "Dress Code" is based, in part, on an old photo I have of my Nana McDonald, who one day in the 1930's decided to dress up in men's clothing. That used to be a transgressive thing. It still can be, although we look a lot more askance at men dressing women's clothing. In any case, I got to dig up some interesting bits of Irish history, use modern day Dublin and Massachusetts as settings (Revere and Marblehead) and have fun with a fiesty flight attendant and American soldier.
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This is the 6th (and 7th, but I'm cheating) of 7 recent or upcoming publications that I'm happy to see let loose in the world
My 2012 publications so far include:
1 The Secret of Othello book 2 of my GLBTQ adventure series for teens
2. The Road to NPS - cowritten with Stephen D. Covey - Ice Road Trucks on Europa
3 Searching for Slave Leia t Lightspeed and io9 - the other one about Hollywood and feminism.
4. The Black Feminist's Guide to Science Fiction Film Editing Asimov's, Dec issue. The first one about Hollywood and feminism.
5. Sexy Robot Mom Asimov's, April/May issue - the one with androgyny
6. Dress Code - Bloody Fabulous - an Irish flight attendant who prefers men's clothing. All the time.
7. WIllful Impropriety - The English Garden - England is not all roses and sunshine for an impoverished Indian servant
8. Mehra and Juin War and Space: Recent Comba the romance one. I mean, combat one.
9 The Fabulous Hotel Daily Science Fiction - the veterans one
10. Sea of Cortez (reprint) Beyond Binar the Navy ship and sex one
11. Come to Me (written as Sam Cameron) Women of the Dark Streets the lesbian paranormal one with the TSA in it
12. Bark if You Like Boys (written as Sam Cameron) Boys of Summer the boys and summer romance one
For the YA anthology, Willful Impropriety, the theme was Victorian romance with an edge. I wrote a take-off on Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden. The original text ditches all characters of color pretty early on, so I decided to bring a teenage Indian servant back to Misselthwaite Manor. I combed through some annotated versions of TSG and researched colonial India and had a great time figuring out logistics. My favorite character is -- well, there aren't a lot, because hello, big giant empty house on the moors, but let's just say he looks like a teenage Jensen Ackles to me.
Bloody Fabulous is all about fashion and magic and fun things, and my story "Dress Code" is based, in part, on an old photo I have of my Nana McDonald, who one day in the 1930's decided to dress up in men's clothing. That used to be a transgressive thing. It still can be, although we look a lot more askance at men dressing women's clothing. In any case, I got to dig up some interesting bits of Irish history, use modern day Dublin and Massachusetts as settings (Revere and Marblehead) and have fun with a fiesty flight attendant and American soldier.
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This is the 6th (and 7th, but I'm cheating) of 7 recent or upcoming publications that I'm happy to see let loose in the world
My 2012 publications so far include:
1 The Secret of Othello book 2 of my GLBTQ adventure series for teens
2. The Road to NPS - cowritten with Stephen D. Covey - Ice Road Trucks on Europa
3 Searching for Slave Leia t Lightspeed and io9 - the other one about Hollywood and feminism.
4. The Black Feminist's Guide to Science Fiction Film Editing Asimov's, Dec issue. The first one about Hollywood and feminism.
5. Sexy Robot Mom Asimov's, April/May issue - the one with androgyny
6. Dress Code - Bloody Fabulous - an Irish flight attendant who prefers men's clothing. All the time.
7. WIllful Impropriety - The English Garden - England is not all roses and sunshine for an impoverished Indian servant
8. Mehra and Juin War and Space: Recent Comba the romance one. I mean, combat one.
9 The Fabulous Hotel Daily Science Fiction - the veterans one
10. Sea of Cortez (reprint) Beyond Binar the Navy ship and sex one
11. Come to Me (written as Sam Cameron) Women of the Dark Streets the lesbian paranormal one with the TSA in it
12. Bark if You Like Boys (written as Sam Cameron) Boys of Summer the boys and summer romance one