#low commitment

[innovationstation1]

ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT! Olivia in the Spotify headquarters today, teaming up with them to announce her engagement to Joe. Her very serious, very loving, very proud of being with her…. long term, long distance, low commitment, casual boyfriend.

She was obviously there to prepare a surprise for him since as we all know Joe loves Spotify and has a playlist.

[vindictar]

🦄

[spenceraverywrites]

@originalficfest is hosting a wonderful event from May 25 to May 31st that I’m eager to do a little bit of work for. Over the next week, I’ll pick a few days to give you a deep dive into my novella “Letter Bees”, a sci-fi adventure romp set in a far flung, floralpunk future on a Mars that’s been terraformed and made livable for hundreds of years. 

My hope is that by sharing with you one of my less secretive projects, I’ll be able to get a bit more insight into what I want this novelette to shape up to be while also getting to do what I love: share writing with others.

 his probably won’t be a perfect seven days of sharing, but I’ll do what I can around my current work and still have fun while I’m at it!

About The Writer:

My name is Spencer Avery, and I’m a write focused mainly in urban fantasy, solarpunk and floralpunk fiction, and more recently, science-fantasy fiction with a decent dollop of magic and Fae. I tend towards a Young Adult and New Adult Audience, though most of my stories are hopefully the kind of thing that can resonate with all age ranges.

I’ve been professionally writing since university, and now, am pursuing completion of probably too many drafts with the mindset of publishing in 2020 at the earliest.

 You can find me around the net at lots of places, the main sites being my website spenceravery.com, Instagram, Twitter, and FictionPress.

 Thanks in advance for your support through this week, especially if you’re someone new. I’m looking forward to sharing one of many worlds I’m working with.

About Letter Bees:

Letter Bees has been a long time coming. The core idea was “delivery girls race through the city to deliver an unusual item in time for an important event.” Since then, I’ve built a still shaky blurb and outline out of that that seems to change and develop a bit more every day.

Overall, this idea has been in the works for about three years. It was something I came up with when I was in a phase about writing about action-y courier types who made delivering packages cool. Imagine if your Amazon deliveryperson did parkour to get there, or if the post person actually carried knives and had to fight tooth and nail just so you could get that postcard from Grandma. 

That was what I envision with this story, only with African-American royals and a pretty much completely African-American cast. And queer folks: gotta have queer folk. (And an android!)

The world of Letter Bees isn’t perfect, because personally, I don’t think genuinely perfect utopias could exist nor are necessarily good things because differences are okay: it’s when they’re used as a reason to hate that’s bad. However, I wanted to create a world where things were as close to perfect as they could be: there’s more equality in my world, and differences are something that’s natural and perfectly okay.

Yet, it’s the kind of world where a bunch of black girls who work for the global caretaker A.I., Sterlaris, and have success and happiness with their work. It’s a story where a bunch of explicitly fat and queer –we’ve got two canonically ace characters y’all– have vivid lives, don’t hate their bodies, and are active. (Like real life fat people also are.)

We’ve even got intersapient romance between an android –I’ve taken to using the term nereid over the last few months after finding out more about Greek deities– and one of the core characters, and boy, is it cute!

My hope is that this is the kind of story I’d have liked to read growing up. In so many ways, it’s a love letter to my younger, queer self: a story about overcoming something and making a really good story out of it, and ending up on both feet at the end of it all.  

Blurb about Letter Bees

District Hive No. 84 is known to be one of the quickest in Sothis, and will delivery anything for equal trade. However, one day they are met with an incredibly unusual request: the delivery of stasis-induced Varone Sonada Marte'a in a glass coffin and her twin sister Aureolin Numire Marte'a, twin heirs to the Martian Throne to the Red Cradle, the first forest on Mars and the home of the world’s gods. There, Varone can receive her right and unlock the tethers placed on her magic and properly claim the throne.

There’s just one catch: their mother’s personal guard have turned against the next Crown Heir, and are hunting both sisters to their death to keep her in power. 

And now, the quartet of Hive 84 are on their hit list.

Armed solely with the backing of their goddess, their city-issued weapons, and a good deal of gumption. Hive 84’s on a deadline to deliver because this is one package that can’t be lost.

Closing Statements

I think this is going to be a good thing for me. I’ve been stuck on my projects recently, and shifting to something smaller than a novella but longer than a short story might just be the thing to jumpstart my brain again. 

At the very least, I’ll end up with a bunch of work done on my story that I can use. 

Once more, thank you for your support in advance. I hope you’ll enjoy hearing about Letter Bees during this next week.

[multifxrious]

like for a short starter

[hmm-screech-owl-blog]

hahahahahahahaha... her again? Really? Somehow I'm not surprised.