YEAH!!!! It's exhausting lolol. Like if the solution was that easy I wouldn't be in this situation!

Thank you!

Haha, I hope so too!

(As N. Romaine White)

D.E.I. (Death, Eternity, and Inclusion): adult, dark fantasy/horror, but funny!
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Rank and File: adult, fantasy
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I didn't mean to turn this thread into an ad but I should mention that I HAVE written some short stories.

And They Don't Kiss at the End: young adult, historical
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A Letter to My Sister: adult, fantasy
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(cont'd)

And I think that's been an unexpected source of conflict between me and the rest of the publishing industry. Everyone thinks I want to make more graphic novels, even when I keep screaming that I don't.

It's been fifteen years of drawing comics. I'll finish this book.

And then.

I'm Going to Write.

That's the funny part. I'm not interested in YA anymore. 😭 I do still want to write but probably adult and not kidlit.

And I mean, I do love comics. But I love other things too. And the sheer workload of comics, coupled with the unforgiving schedules, means there are so many things I've set aside to make space for comics.

And then, to agents and editors alike, I became not a writer, but a comic artist.

The first manuscript I ever wrote was a YA novel.

It just so happened that I was also fresh out of art school in 2010 with an animation degree and, similar to now, no one was hiring.

I needed money, I could draw, so I pivoted and started investigating how to be an illustrator.

All forms of oppression are connected. You ain’t dealing with one without the other.

“And the only thing he has going for him is the false feeling that he’s superior because his skin is white— and can’t hardly eat and make his ends meet week in and week out. (Amen!)”

every one of us every time we have a march. Now that’s a fact. That the poor white has been put into this position, where through blindness and prejudice (Make it plain!) he is forced to support his oppressors.”-

Yup. A passport is as much an indicator of wealth as it is of citizenship.

A passport as a proxy for citizenship is an acceleration of fascism that strips citizens of our rights.

And listen. ICE doesn’t care about your passport anyway. They detain US citizens constantly.

None of this is actually about immigration. It never was, but they aren’t even pretending anymore.

I hate centering all this on white feelings but it’s become more clear to me over time that things won’t get better for all of us until white folks reckon with white supremacy. It’s like this sort of thing needs to be destroyed from within, we cannot do to for them.