Off the Grid: Living Blind Without the Internet
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View ArticleI wrote a letter to the judge that banned LGBT flash fiction.
I look for calls for submissions on a daily basis. Most of these come into my email but sometimes I will just happen to stumble upon something. I’ve started trying my hand at flash fiction so began...
View ArticleOn the Attack Helicopter story by Isabel Fall
Update: This article talks about what happened after the story was pulled. Original post. I’m sitting here remembering a short story published before the pandemic this year, in 2020. My god, that seems...
View ArticleWe should rehabilitate, not execute.
2020 has taught many people a bunch of things they may or may not have known. For one thing, it’s taught us that power, and the rush to keep it, kills over 27,000 people as the result of ignoring...
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Making Me Time
My story in this anthology is called, "Learning to Read Again." Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul (February 16, 2021) Length: 368 pages ISBN13: 9781611590746 Blurb. Do you ever say that you’ll take...
View ArticleThe #OwnVoices Conundrum
An incident that happened on my Twitter timeline recently got me thinking about disclosures and how that relates to publishing as a whole. First, though, Let’s back up. I spotted a lot of other...
View ArticleCancel culture hurts diversity
I’ve been thinking a lot about cancel culture this month, partly because, as I write this, it’s currently pride month, but I’ve been taking a close look at the anti LGBT+ reactions to local libraries...
View ArticleSubmission accessibility guide for literary agents and editors.
While browsing submission guidelines, I’ve noticed a pattern. I’ve noticed quite a few patterns, actually, and I’d like this post to be a bit more educational rather than opinionated. That will be very...
View ArticleStereotypes deserve representation too
July is Disability Pride Month. Even though I don’t like social media and try to stay off it as much as humanly possible because I find it extremely draining, there are tweets by some of my favorite...
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Where Home is Not Safe
Where Home is Not Safe. Writings on Domestic Verbal, Emotional and Physical Abuse Edited by Judith Skillman and Linera Lucas ISBN: 9781476683928 Description Even if you haven’t been hurt by domestic...
View ArticleBlind submissions exclude diversity.
As I continue to seek paying markets for my fiction and nonfiction, I’ve been noticing an alienating pattern in submission guidelines. In particular, anonymous submissions. Before I talk about this...
View ArticleTools for Disabled writers
If I had it my way, publishing would be a lot more accommodating to Disabled authors regardless of fabulousness, but, unfortunately, publishing still has a mountain to climb when it comes to treating...
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Artificial Divide
Book cover for Artificial Divide anthology. Paperback ISBN: 978-1-990086-08-3 Ebook ISBN : 978-1-990086-12-0 Audiobook ISBN : 978-1-990086-19-9 Send review inquiries here. Stories by Eunice...
View ArticleDisability is not a bad word
There’s a lot of reasons why Disability literature still hasn’t broken through to the mainstream and into mainstream classes. For one thing, publishers, and sometimes, readers, stick to non-Disabled...
View ArticleStock signings help me as a Disabled author.
Aside from being an introvert, I am also Disabled. In particular, I’ve got two main disabilities. One is Cerebral Palsy. I’d consider this a secondary disability, but it does impact my speech. My...
View ArticleDifferent Literary Activism
I woke up to another controversy. The controversy is just like any other. Right now, as I’m typing this, the internet is talking about a public figure punching down on an oppressed group. In this case,...
View ArticleHow to support writers without buying books
One sure fire way to support the writers you love is to buy their books. If you buy their books, the authors receive royalties. With these royalties, authors make enough income to write something else....
View ArticleSpoilers could empower readers
Update: After this post was published, a fan suggested this crowd sourced website, Does the Dog Die? From a screen reader point of view, the website could be better structured, but it is navigable if...
View ArticleOnline pitch events help writers and readers.
Before Covid-19 changed a lot of the publishing landscape in 2020, many writers, established and emerging, would attend writing conferences that would cost money to pitch to literary agents, hoping...
View ArticleHow self descriptions benefit Blind and sighted.
Corporations and sighted people are being criticized, by Blind and visually impaired people, for a practice many Blind and visually impaired people frown upon because they consider the information...
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