Local Gay Writes Gays Solving Mysteries

A queer trans author's journey from different-kind-of-writer to novelist.

[twinsfawn]

[prokopetz]

I need sci fi fans to please be normal about the Three Laws of Robotics. These are not a serious proposal about AI ethics – they're a narrative logic puzzle created to facilitate writing detective stories about robots. They're the sort of thing you'd invent to annoy Daniel Craig if you made a movie where Benoit Blanc goes to space.

[jackhawksmoor]

[livedpoetry-deactivated20230925]

An important message from the National Lawyers Guild - Detroit & Michigan Chapter

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[zypiris]

<older man and older woman chatting amiably at a table, their conversation is just on the edge of intelligible>

Denise: Oh, hello!

Bill: We were just talking about you kids.

D: I’m Denise Heberle (HEB-er-lee)…

B: And I’m Bill Goodman.

D: Together we’ve been fighting fascism for over 50 years.

B: And so much has changed over those 50 years, such as the ingredients to a successful firebomb!

D (cheerily): And the glass that bank windows are made of!

B: But there’s one thing that hasn’t changed over 50 years, something that is so important to tell you kids who are new to this movement.

Both: Shut the fuck up.

D: You’re sitting in the police transport van after a protest?

B: Shut the fuck up. In a holding cell, with your comrades?

D: Shut the fuck up. Cop knocks on your door?

B: Shut the fuck up.

D: Texting on an unsecured device?

B: Shut the fuck up. Pulled over by the cops after a protest?

D: Shut the fuck up. Cop just asking about your day?

B: Shut the fuck up. Feds call your mom?

D: Tell your mother to shut the fuck up.

B: Now. Repeat after me. When the cops come calling, what do you do?

(Cut to Bill standing with eight kids)

Kids: Shut the fuck up!

(Cut to Card:

“Shut The Fuck up A Public Service Announcement from

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD

Detroit & Michigan Chapter”)

[elfwreck]

Reminder, because people need to be aware of this even more now.

[yahuaa]

@rain-flores

[queercozymysteryauthor]

Formulas Are Great

Frankly, the fact that cozy mysteries are a genre that thrives on formula and tradition is great for me. Not because it's particularly easier than anything else, but being able to grab a "hot to write cozy mystery" book and copy a template is amazing. Not even necessarily so I can follow the template, but so I can look at the prompts and feel where my own story wants to stress the limitations a little bit. The template says to do this but I know if I do this I can flex the constraints a little bit and still provide the same vibe readers will expect, but now mine's cooler.

I'm not going to reinvent cozy mysteries by putting a W/W relationship in a book with a talking cat, but it'll be fun.

[hmmm-official]

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[randomitemdrop]

Item: Orbmeal

[queercozymysteryauthor]

The gender-inclusive answer to Roundmeal.

[queercozymysteryauthor]

Back in MY day Scrivener was $40 and nobody bought it because you got it free with NaNoWriMo. Now it's $60 and you get diddly squat for finishing NaNoWriMo. Everything good gets worse over time on the internet.

[towerofglass]

[sail-to-live]

Not unusual to have fog near an air cooled condenser.

[towerofglass]

[queercozymysteryauthor]

I regret to inform everyone the protag of the CM I'm reading right now has a crush on the chief of police in the small town.

[queercozymysteryauthor]

One of my least favorite things as a reader is finding a great audiobook then finding out the sequel books never got any, so it becomes text-only for the rest of the adventure. if by some miracle I get to a point where not only have I finished and published a cozy mystery to the point it's narrated, there will NOT be a sequel without an audiobook. That's a promise.

[queercozymysteryauthor]

It begins.

Hello, internet! Nonbinary author here. I'm going to be real with you: I'm writing a queer cozy mystery novel for one good reason and one petty reason. Good reason: the world needs more normalized queer relationships in feel-good media. Petty reason: I picked up a cozy mystery at the library this week, an actual physical book published by a real company, and the first page was horrendously bad. I may not be the world's best writer, but I sure as hell can write a better introduction than someone aimlessly washing dishes. This blog will be where my ramblings about the writing process, market research I do (possibly mini-reviews of stuff I read?) and spitballing ideas for the book will live. Come along, won'tcha? There might be a talking cat involved.