L. D. Lewis

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™

L. D. Lewis

L.D. Lewis does... well, a lot. She is an award-winning SF/F writer and editor, and publisher at Fireside Fiction as of July 2021. She serves as a founding creator, Art Director, and Project Manager for the World Fantasy Award-winning and Hugo Award-nominated FIYAH Literary Magazine. She also serves the founding Director of FIYAHCON, chair of the 2021 Nebula Conference, and Awards Manager for the Lambda Literary Foundation. She acquires novellas for Tor.com and researches for the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. She frequently bothers the publishing industry by authoring studies about the treatment and experiences of racially/ethnically marginalized authors in speculative literature. She is the author of A Ruin of Shadows (Dancing Star Press, 2018) and her published short fiction and poetry includes appearances in FIYAH, PodCastle, Strange Horizons, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, Lightspeed, and Fireside Magazine, among others. She lives in Georgia, on deadline, with her coffee habit and an impressive Funko Pop! collection. Tweet her @ellethevillain.

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