Coming Together: In Flux
The anthology I have been working on for months is finally complete and available for sale. Coming Together: In Flux is a charity anthology with a theme of transformation. It benefits the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance.
Wow. This is the second anthology I have edited (the first being Tentacle Dreams) but this is the first I’ve carried through mostly on my own; I created the call, I managed the submissions, then picked all the stories and assembled the package for publication. (The marvelous Alessia Brio created the cover and runs Coming Together as an imprint–great thanks to her for all her help!) It has been a tremendous journey, one I hope I can revisit in the future. For now, however, I am quite glad to be done. There is still work to do, certainly; I need to get the word out! But for now at least, I am pleased and proud to stand here at this particular milestone on the path.
(I’m not resting, of course, in spite of the hiatus–too much else to do!)
You may not have heard of the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance. I don’t recall where I first heard of them, but I’ve been subscribed to their email newsletter for years–I just checked my gmail account and the “welcome” email dates from February 2006! That’s about the time when I started my podcast, when I first started speaking out (in a way) about my own sexuality, in the form of fiction. That has been my primary contact with them; daily emails with news stories collected from around the world. They are full of trials and triumphs, global, national, and personal. Reading about these events has shaped my fiction. Scouts in particular, draws on images and themes I have found in those newsletters.
Thank you, Woodhull. I hope this anthology opens eyes to the work you do, and a few wallets too.
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