Hi Everyone! We are proud to welcome Dami Salako and her YA Urban Fantasy novel Children with Gifts. Children with Gifts is Six of Crows meets Marvel’s X-Men, a 90,000 word YA urban science fiction/fantasy about young people with powers and the lengths we’ll go for the people we love. We had the opportunity to […]
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the one where we celebrate all the successes from 2022! Success is a matter of perspective. We all have different situations and life hurdles that affect our ability to do all the things we want to do. Some days I celebrate just that I even got out of bed and made coffee. But keeping success
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Hi Everyone! Inked in Gray is welcoming Nicole Zelniker and her queer YA contemporary novella, All I Know So Far, a queer coming of age story about love, hope, and resilience. It follows the journey of Avery Marsh, who is skeptical about her move across the country to with her older absentee half-brother and his
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Hi Everyone! With Love, Juniper is a magical story about love, mental health, and managing expectations. This is a special story that captured our hearts! Thank you Amanda for sharing your work with us! If you’re looking for a story that’s relatable, inspirational, and empowering, you will enjoy With Love, Juniper, coming out in 2024.
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The problem with suicide is that it’s not funny. Not even remotely. In fact, I’ve yet to meet a single person who had died by suicide and thought it was comical (Let alone a good idea). I’ve entertained (ideational) suicide all my life. And, being Bipolar Type II, my moods-states can pendulum from depression to
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“Oooh, I’m so depressed, my partner left me.” While the line above isn’t unusual, this ain’t depression. We tend to throw the word around a lot, with most people utterly unaware what depression is. Clinical depression is crippling. There are good days and bad, but I’m getting ahead of myself . . . What is
When I was growing up, mental health issues meant only two things: You were crazy and should be put away. You were an artist and should never get better. Note: These were not mutually exclusive. This may have been different in other parts of the country, but in rural, Upstate New York, this was the
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“I try to laugh about it, cover it all up with lies. I try to laugh about it, hiding the tears in my eyes. Cause boys don’t cry.” – The Cure, ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Boys don’t cry. And certainly not men. We’re like the British. We keep a stiff upper lip. And if you believe
It shouldn’t be this hard to write this. It shouldn’t. I shouldn’t feel drained, hollow, scared, depressed, sad putting the words to page. But I am all those things. I agreed to do it months ago thinking that it would be easy-—a slam dunk. It has not been. I have struggled more with this than
I lost my grandfather to suicide before I even knew he existed. And while you may think this had no effect on me or my family’s dynamic, a closer look would reveal quite the opposite. Holidays and tall tales at gatherings always had a different tone than other family’s. Grandma’s house always had one chair
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