An editor once sent me back a note that read something like, “It will be easier on your American readers if you use inches here.” I read that feedback twice because I respect my editors; thenI firmly crossed that suggestion off. Why? The character speaking was not from the U.S.A. And outside the U.S.A., whoContinue reading “Why My Characters use Celsius (and other Metric Systems)”
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Characters are Human Before they are Labels
Writing the Sanctum serial this year has been a new kind of challenge. Collin was writing on home turf. Chicago was a city I knew. Kink was a world in which I had experience. Polyamory came from my own life. Damian & Jun led me a little further afield, but still in realms where IContinue reading “Characters are Human Before they are Labels”
Ciara Darren 