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12|Diversity Rules Magazine | May 2021 Amazon - Con't from page 11 exo c habitat where, a two-minute walk from our house, we hung out with Sand Hill Cranes and Rose- ate Spoonbills. I'd missed the Pacific Northwest so badly I hardly gave a thought to what I le behind, but I did want to make use of those years, that chunk of rich and unan cipated material. What if I incorporated my longing to write a lesbian family saga with the years in Florida? What if lesbian general fic on writers followed our characters well beyond first romance into old age and fi y-year anniversaries? That's not as rare as the dominant society, which never gives up on driving us into insecure shadows, has led us to think. Main characters would anchor the books while a life me of friendships became deep and permanent. What if readers, with such stories in mind, and who were so inclined, recognized such a future for themselves? I'd been heading in this direc on, with my Morton River Valley Trilogy, which collected characters from others stories and novels I'd wri en. Ann McMan was on this path also, but back then I didn't know her Jericho novels. By the way, her newest, Covenant, is as polished and engaging as any book you're likely to read. So here I was, back in my promised land, filling hun- dreds of index cards with memories of Florida, and beginning to imagine the characters who would live in a hot speck-on-a-road community, on a par cu- lar dirt sandy street I passed on my daily run to the post office for my remote job. The house, their family seat, migrated in from another non-town. The tle of the quartet and first book, Rainbow Gap, had been hanging around in my head because of the plethora of rainbows we saw in Florida. I'd wanted to do a four-book series ever since devouring Paul Sco 's Raj Quartet. Olivia Manning's Balkan and Le- vant Trilogies were another inspira on. The advent of marriage equality, though it wouldn't appear in the first books, had more than a li le to do with my thought process. Accidental Desperados, though also a standalone novel, is the second book in the Rainbow Gap quar- tet. In it, I get to introduce the "next" genera on and follow their paths to the original group of gay people who are not much more than ten years older. That sounded about right for a lesbian genera on which is by circumstance and opportunity accelerated from a biological genera on. And that's how I wrote a book, then another, and am about four chapters into the third. In summary: to write a book, you need to live whatever your crazy life dishes up. .Diversity Rules Magazine Wants You! Are you a writer, musician, poet, or other type of cre- ative person looking for a venue to express yourself in but haven't been able to garner the attention you want? Diversity Rules Magazine wants to hear from you! Showcase yourself and your talent in front of a di- verse audience each month through the online digital magazine as well as the website. Contact the editor today and find out how to be part of Diversity Rules Maga- zine and get yourself fea- tured monthly or as a guest feature!! Want to advertise and/or subscribe? Head to the website to find out how to do both! diversityrulesmagazine@gmail.com (607) 435.1587

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