Cam

This book is good. It’s about art and transness and disability and also death and the memory of the dead. Extremely cool, creative, and well-developed “non-western” (???? I think???) fantasy world. Also a very short book!!

You should read the novel The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya.

Here’s why:

1. You’re a creative — this book explores very common (I think!!) but little-discussed feelings of creative competitiveness and insecurity, particularly between friends
2. You care about social media and mental health — this book is about social media’s capriciousness and destructiveness
3. You think women are neat — this book is about female friendship
4. You care about musicians’ wellness — this book contrasts the realities of semi-celebrities who have proximity to fame and glamour despite also having day jobs and roommates
5. You’re trans — the author and one of the protagonists are trans women (though the novel isn’t really about that)
6. You’re a Twitter veteran — This book was written during and about the pre-Elon period and it’s worth remembering what the hell it was that we survived

It has it all. Cute dogs. Cute baby. ABSURD CONFLICT.

Here on this Trans Day of Self-Promotion Visibility I thought it was finally time for me to do a round up of my published stories for Cohost.

• "LDR"
• Trans man astronaut tries online dating while at work (on Venus)
• In the Lambda-finalist anthology Rosalind's Siblings
• "A Government-Sanctioned Marriage"
• Arranged marriage on a spaceship results in queer shit
• In the anthology Queers Who Don't Quit
• "The Whale Fall at the End of the Universe"
• Adrift they/them space mermaid finds a space whale carcass
• Read for free online in Clarkesworld (or listen to the audio version!)
• "Super-Luminous Spiral"
• Bi undergrad English major becomes obsessed with their classmate whose skin is galaxy-spangled
• Read or listen for free online in Lightspeed
• "Phaser"
• A teen explores their gender via alien abduction
• Read in the Otherwise-honor list anthology Capricious: Gender Diverse Pronouns Issue
• "The Mermaid and the Pirate"
• Queer lady space pirate meets space mermaid
• Read it in Queerly Loving Vol. 2

More details can be found on my website and its blog 😀👍