August 2009

Adding Some Color

Not so long ago, nearly all my major characters were white. Not that I’d planned it that way–it was the result of a singular lack of planning. I plead clueless–I was building a whole universe, and race is not something I was used to thinking about. Because it’s part of their stories, Taro is of […]

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I Will Not Shut Up

I really should learn that I don’t debate well live. I need to stay away from it. But it’s so hard when someone is wrong on the internet! Yesterday on Twitter, Colleen Lindsay asked “Should a racist/ bigoted author be boycotted even if his/her written work is considered a literary masterpiece?” Well, of course we

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