Growing up in rural North Carolina as a gay kid, I was exposed to much religious fervor,
hate and violence during the AIDS crisis, so our community was continuously under siege
and I felt my power would never come back to me if I ever had any at all; this had me delving
into Fantasy and Science Fiction, and had me continuously wondering how things would be
different were I to be a female or have magic powers. I decided to combine both of those into
my first foray into the novel form, and I hope that with any margin of success I might achieve
that I can give back to the community that I came from by at least a little bit and increase
awareness to fight ignorance and prejudice of all types in the Bible Belt, which continues to
fester in the small, shadowy pockets that no one usually sees…but are very much dangerous.
