Wednesday, April 27, 2011

After Nina's comment on diversity I just realized my novel is ridiculously diverse.

Deborah is white, a fairskinned redheaded Jew.
Segullah is a tall darkskinned black Jew from Uganda with a disability.
Dov is a Jew, white and Ashkenazi apparently, though not stated.
Sal is Puerto Rican with a Jewish grandfather.
Moshe has the same background as Segullah, Abuyudaya, a black Jew from Uganda.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

I submitted "The Daily Grind" to Strange Horizons. :-)

I decided the other day that with everything going on with me I don't think I can go back to the happy carefree novel I was writing in which all the characters are ablebodied. So I decided to give Segullah a disability.