1/28/20 discussion of notes I'd found for my story Summer Azure

Here is the link to my January 28, 2020, Twitter thread discussion of some notes I had found -- interestingly, while I'd been doing some research for this blog -- for my lesbian- and Lolita-themed amateur novel Summer Azure.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

9/21/19 discussion of why my amateur novel Summer Azure is unique

Here is the link to my September 21, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about why I think my lesbian- and Lolita-themed amateur novel Summer Azure is unique among works of fiction depicting youth/adult relationships.

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7/15/19 discussion about my amateur novel Summer Azure

Here is the link to my July 15, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about some themes in my 2017 lesbian- and Lolita-themed amateur novel Summer Azure.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

7/4/19 discussion of fireworks in my amateur novel Summer Azure

Here is the link to my July 4, 2019, Twitter thread discussion of the role of fireworks and the Fourth of July in my 2017 lesbian- and Lolita-themed amateur novel Summer Azure.

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4/22/19 discussion of Nabokov's influence on my art

Here is the link to my April 22, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about Vladimir Nabokov's influence on my art and writing -- in celebration of Nabokov's birthday.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

1/18/19 discussion of how the Women's March influenced my story Summer Azure

Here is the link to my January 18, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about how the Women's March influenced my lesbian- and Lolita-themed amateur novel Summer Azure.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

1/7/19 "open letter" to Nancy Ohlin about her novel Consent

Here is the link to my January 7, 2019, Twitter "open letter" to Nancy Ohlin, about her novel Consent and my own youth/adult love-themed amateur novel, Summer Azure.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

Thank you for reading. Please enjoy.

3/17/18 Twitter summary thread for my novel Summer Azure

Here is the link to a March, 2018, Twitter thread I did about my amateur novel Summer Azure.

This thread is a chapter-by-chapter summary of the novel. The novel is online and free to read. It's a youth/adult lesbian romance story about a reclusive businesswoman and a young dancing star girl next door. The thread gives links to each chapter in the story, as well as links to the songs referenced in the story.

The tweets in some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order on Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is almost comically severely affected. My apologies.

3/17/18 Twitter thread about why I promote my own work

Here is the link to a Twitter thread I did in March of 2018 about why I promote my own work.

The thread was made ahead of a chapter-by-chapter summary thread I did for my amateur novel Summer Azure (you should see the link to that thread in the post above).

A lot of the things I say in this thread hold true today -- namely, that I work really hard -- granted, for the love of art, etc., but it is hard work -- to promote other people's things, so I don't feel very bad promoting my own stuff; and that I wrote my own work for reasons, and I still think the reasons are relevant, so I feel it's worthwhile to promote them.

1/18/20 discussion about my fanfiction Summer Azure ahead of 2018 Women's March

Here is the link to a Twitter thread I did in January of 2018 about my amateur novel Summer Azure.

Summer Azure can essentially be seen as a Dance Moms fanfiction mixed with a lesbian-themed variation on the Lolita story. It is a youth/adult romance about a dancing star girl who befriends and then falls in love with a reclusive businesswoman next door.

I wrote my thread about my novel on the eve of the 2nd annual Women's March, because the novel ends with the first Women's March. The thread gives a lot of background into how I came to write the story, my political reasons for writing the story, the way I wove the political themes into the story, and some basics about my characters and the plot, and how they all relate to my own personal life and political ideas, and how they all culminate with the Women's March.

Some of my Twitter threads have been twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. Unfortunately, this particular thread's coherency suffers a lot as a result. My apologies.

Here is the link to my novel Summer Azure, which is online and free to read.

12/14/17 discussion of my amateur novel Summer Azure

Here is the link to a Twitter thread from December of 2017 where I discuss my amateur novel Summer Azure, which I'd just finished posting.

The thread mostly discusses my study sources for the novel -- which is a youth-adult romance between a girl dancing star and a reclusive business woman next door. The thread discusses how I was influenced by Nabokov's novel Lolita and Bonnie Nadzam's novel Lamb, but also how my novel differed from those novels. It discusses some case studies relating to my story, such as those of Claire Lyte, Kaitlyn Hunt, Mary Kay Letourneau, and Helen Goddard. And it discusses some of the other basic themes of my story.

The thread also gives a link to the novel, which is online and free to read.