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.
