It’s been rainy, quiet, and Bev’s gone again.

Tom’s been working on my story and he says it’s such a good story that he feels it’s all the more reason we ought to do it up as best we can. In fact, he feels it’s such a good story that he thinks we can get it published anywhere and not by just a gay/les/bi company. I appreciate the vote of confidence, but I don’t know about that. Yes, there are some books with gay characters in the mainstream, but they’re usually not the main characters, and the authors are usually males. Again, it’s still a man’s world out there, like it or not. For a woman to sell a book with gay main characters, well, I don’t know about that.

He was also searching online for writing tips. One of the things he came up with suggests the author “do an interview” with their characters. At least the main ones anyway. This allows the writer to better develop them so that the reader gets to know them better and sees them as you do. You ask them mostly trivial questions, I guess.

Tom’s getting to be as bad as Mary. He came to me all excited about this ceremony you perform to rid yourself of curses. Then again, maybe we ought to try it. If it works we’d be free to die (as in how we always used to say that we knew we wouldn’t die young because that’d defeat the purpose of whatever wants us to live a cursed life).