I don’t want to be known for being a woman.

by | Apr 29, 2014 | Writer's Blog

I believe that on some level everyone wants to be known for something. Maybe just for being a good friend or maybe as extreme as being the best leader of the free world. Me, I’d like to be known as a great writer. Someone that has their works read long after their death. There is however something I don’t want on a visceral level and that is to be known as a great woman writer. True I am most certainly a woman and a writer but being known as a woman writer seems to me some sort of obscure consolation prize. I see some man with a ridiculous mustache and top hat handing out Newburys and Cauldecotts and Eisners and Pulitzers much like an olympic ceremony. The male honorees are adorned with heavy gleaming golden medals. Whereas, the women writers, artists and journalists are bestowed with light pink plastic barbie-esque tokens about their necks. I often feel that I am being ridiculous and should just hope that someday someone recognizes my work with a small nod. But, truly thinking about it and analyzing my feelings on the matter I’m okay with being ridiculous in this. I am a writer and happen to be a woman, but there is much more to me than my sex. It seems universally agreed upon that criticizing or threatening anyone based on the fundamental characteristics of their being is wrong. So, why do people feel that they should be recognized in the same vein? The very people that plead for acceptance into the hierarchy of the white male archetype of society post all over the place defining themselves as their gender...

5 more days

by | Apr 2, 2014 | Writer's Blog

In 5 days literally the world will be able to see what we’ve been up to. Less than 120 hours until the moment I’ve been waiting for and all at once it is forever away and way too soon. We will be dropping the first 8 pages of The God Child on Monday morning and there will be no turning back. I have to say that the premise was not mine, that was entirely DJ, but I took it and ran. I hope you like it or even if you hate it that is stirs a feeling or two. I must warn you it is violent and graphic. If I didn’t know where it was going some of what we have written may seem over the top or senseless to me. However, I think if you hang in there and learn the story and get to know the characters you will thoroughly enjoy the...