the freedom of writing in a new genre
I am nervous but I am free!
Thank you for joining me in the Inner Parlour today. This is a subsection of my newsletter, Lilith’s Muse, where we’ll have deeper conversations in a smaller setting. So please, take a seat by the fire. You are in good company here.
In the future, I hope to use this space as an open dialogue. We’ll do Q+As, structured like a writing/publishing advice column. If you’d like to send in a question to get us started, feel free to reach out in the comments, or send an email to fromlilithsmuse@gmail.com. I’ll answer in a future newsletter post with a long-form letter like this one!
June was a month of daydreaming.
I spent a lot of time writing in the Boston Public Library and in various gardens. I went back home to Philly for a bit during a nasty 90-degree heat wave and baked on the beach like a little slimy lizard.
Most importantly, as Pride month drew to a close, I sent off the first draft of my sapphic YA romcom to my agent. It’s my first time dipping a toe into the genre and to say that I’m nervous would be an understatement.
I love this novel with my whole heart. I usually get more book ideas than I know what to do with. Most of those ideas wilt over time, never quite growing into anything meaningful. But this romcom just wouldn’t quit. Even as days unfolded into weeks and weeks stretched into months, the idea haunted me, so much so that I knew I had to give it a shot.