Let's just call this "the big reveal!" I've been holding onto this news for a few months, but now that The Dire Deeds is published at last, I can finally make this announcement. You see, in my "Acknowlegments" I have thanked Disasterina and Sleazy Manzini for agreeing to become Tomma Bedlam's Drag Parents. L to…
I am back firmly in fantasy novelist mode! This past weekend I put some character and plot development changes in place and continued the final edit on Dire Deeds. I revised the list of 29 genders of the Elf world; and sorted and organized files of character "faces" (a form of fantasy "casting" that helps…
This is a coming out post. Even as a child I never liked my first name, preferring often to simply use the letter "A." I used to think it was because "Amy" seemed too wimpy and I also resented being named after a character in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (yes, my parents did that).…
[Note: This is similar to the original post at one of my other blogs.] A handful of activists have ensured that Max Dashu, now known as someone who holds certain transphobic views, has been disinvited as a PantheaCon presenter. As a mother, as a sexologist, as a writer, as a neopagan, as a person--I'm glad. As…
Joe Hillstrom Sidley Croom Joe and Sidley are on again, off again lovers. Artwork via HeroForge.com. Oyster Olson Babe Bump Tomma Bedlam Three of the main characters. Artwork via HeroForge.com. Here is a list of some of the relationship configurations involving the characters in The Guild of Ornamental Hermits fantasy series. Check out our characters…
Oyster in Hermitville Oyster, Asexual & Trans Pride Oyster Half Elven Three character studies of Oyster Olson. Artwork via HeroForge.com. Oyster Olson is a resident of the fictitious Hermitville Farm and Arts Collective near Pahoa, Hawai'i Island. He is one of twelve "hermits" (musicians, artists, and oddballs) invited to live at the intentional community by…
Babe Bump Frank Talk Babe Bump and Frank Talk, depicted as game peices, designed via HeroForge.com. Babe Bump, the book's primary narrator, and Frank Talk, one of Hermitville's fine musicans, live in bodies that have intersex variations. However, Babe and Frank each deal with a different set of circumstances, as the intersex variation of each…
The Guild of Ornamental Hermits 