Finding My Way to Queer Fairytales and a Book Deal
by Leslie Vedder I’ve always wanted to be a writer. This has taken a lot of different forms for me over the years. Illustrator/author of stapled together grade-school masterpieces. Closet fanfiction writer. (Only in the sense that I wrote from the closet; my fanfiction was always slash!) Then I got into original work, learning to put the worlds and characters I’d imagined in my head down on paper. My first attempts were mostly epic fantasy stories that hit all the familiar beats I’d read so many times—you know, nine guys go on a [...]
