General Daynja Édo is a legend: head of the celebrated Boorhian Empire’s military and possessor of a mask of untold power...
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Author: L. D. Lewis
L. D. Lewis is a coffee enthusiast and writer of SFF primarily centering Black women and femmes in extraordinary worlds and with extraordinary power. She also serves as Art Director for FIYAH Literary Magazine for Black Speculative Fiction. She was awarded the 2017 Working-Class Writers Grant by the Speculative Literature Foundation. She lives in Georgia, on deadline, and under the judgmental gaze of her cat, Gustavo. Tweet her @ellethevillain
The Importance of Writing Carefree Blackness™
Re-posted from my original 2016 Tumblr for relevance to the reasons I write. -LL Post-NaNoWriMo, I volunteered beta-reading services. It combined my love of reading with my love of asking too many questions. The push for diversity in publishing has created attempts at diversity in writing, and thus requests for diverse beta-readers. Of my eleven beta-reads, eight… Continue reading The Importance of Writing Carefree Blackness™
