I attended the launch event and book talk in Boston last May, where Milo signed my book. And I spotted a copy of Lilac People in the wild at the Boston Athenaeum Library last weekend, too. Everyone should go get a copy, especially for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and Casablanca!

This is a story about hope and resilience in the face of bigoted violence, shedding light on the thriving queer community in 1932 Berlin, as well as a queer family's post-war survival.

After the war ended, the American military arrested and hunted #lgbtq people while freeing everyone else from Nazi concentration camps.

The story centers on a trans man, Bertie, his girlfriend Sophie, their friend Karl. They struggled to survive before and after Nazis took power, put queer people into concentration camps.

There’s this device he creates and defines: the personified wall, transformed into an object of transference, the wall that no longer signifies oppression but rather a refuge that gives him stability.

Written inside the walls of the Israeli prisons where Abu Srour spent 33 years, the manuscript was smuggled out over 2 years to a publisher in Beirut. quiet strength of his voice, his dignity, and the moral elevation he achieves even while incarcerated.

There'll be published authors giving talks all week, plus social gatherings, but plenty of time to just relax, enjoy the Vineyard, and write during that week.

#writer #fellowship #history #fiction #novel #edit #manuscript #odyssey

3). I'll also be spending a week this summer at the Martha's Vineyard Writing Center for their writer's conference, and @mvicw awarded me a Poet & Author Fellowship to help cover the cost!

2). I've got a meeting scheduled with a literary agent in New York for May, so wish me luck!

1). I've been accepted to the Boston @grubwriters Center's 10-month "Novel Incubator" program starting this June, with their top Editor Michelle Hoover going through all 400 pages of my novel to revise/edit for publication.

The novel is set 15 years after Odysseus' return home amidst the collapse of Bronze Age kingdoms in the 12th c. BCE, with Odysseus' family & political drama unfolding amidst the collapse of Bronze Age kingdoms in the 12th c. BCE: