for Lesbian Visibility Week, consider checking The Direction of Clocks out my sci-fi novelette about breakups, accountability, suicidality, time dilation, and intergenerational lesbian community published in Clarkesworld.
you can also check out I Have the High Ground, my 2-player dueling TTRPG of banter, posturing, and capes. while it can technically be played with straight characters, as i warned during the crowdfunder i HAVE NOT playtested that, so buyer beware! there's a dedication to sword lesbians in it for a reason—it's very much based on the inherent homoerotic tension of dueling!
if you like either of these, or the additional work you can find on my website and itch.io reminder that i also take commissions:
- i've sensitivity read on the subject of lesbian (and other) sensitivity & authenticity for publishers like Andrews McMeel
- i've taken TTRPG setting & short story fiction commissions, done TTRPG design consulting, and more!
you can see my rates and inquire here. some testimonials about working with me below the break!
I strongly recommend Jess Levine for well-written and thoughtful authenticity and sensitivity reads. Jess read a middle grade novel for me at about 40,000 words in length. She met every deadline and communicated effectively, with insightful and relevant feedback that made the book better…she’s a ‘go-to’ authenticity reader for matching projects going forward!
Erinn Pascal, Senior Editor at Andrews McMeel Universal
Jess has a real talent for building worlds, characters, and groups of people that feel lived-in and have a history and culture incorporated into their details—right down to their interrelationships and the phonemes in their names. Everything she wrote feels like it fits right in with the setting I had already written, and adds to it in a way that makes the two works greater than the sum of their parts. I am very glad that I decided to hire her for this project, and if I need more writing like this I would happily do so again.
Nick Eckenstein, TTRPG GM & commissioner