My “Tarskia of the Starklands” stories are about a fat queer woman with a giant spiked mace protecting ordinary people from predatory, entitled (mostly rich) people.
Neither Tarskia or I are the snowflake.
The only story published to date is "A Very Good Dog," Tarskia's first adventure upon leaving home: swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/a-very-good-...
"A Bloody Inheritance" (protecting kids from a vampire) and "To Meet Death Standing" (intervening to protect a neighborhood from a sorcerous racketeer) are awaiting final acceptance/rejection from publishers.
Looking forward to this!
Just commissioned a piece of artwork to use when advertising my Tarskia stories! It's an artist I've worked with before, who loves sword-and-sorcery, so I'm pretty hyped.
Current draft in progress, tentatively titled "Old Blood and New Friends," sees her fighting a mutated wizard who hates women having bodily autonomy, and a real piece of shit local aristocrat.
I had a publisher/mentor who was a bit of a hardass and pushed the mindset of "you're only as good as your next sale." It's been years since I've worked with him but I'm still working on relearning "it's okay to breathe for a few days after finishing a draft."
