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On Magical Negros, Helpful Slave Girls, & Other Fantastic White Creations

There’s an interesting article up at Strange Horizons on the stereotype of the “Magical Negro” in fantasy fiction. Author Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu looks at this white-written type in the novels of Stephen King (Dick Hallorann in The Shining, Mother Abigail in The Stand, John Coffey in The Green Mile, etc). There’s some discussion about the problems […]

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OK, my chiklits. New book writing starts in earnest today. I’ve got a wacky-strict schedule of 3-5 pages a day, so I’ve gotta get cracking. Taking Friday off as a writing day – I do my best writing from about 7pm-2am. Likely going to go ahead and start the Saturday cafe writing days with local

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Next book, working title JIHAD About 80,000 words Part One – November 20th Part Two – December 20th Part Three – January 20th Complete Draft 1: February 1st Overview (very, very tentative) Nasheen is a society that violently emerged from a strictly conservative Judeo-Christian sort of religious background that had brutal social rules regarding the

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