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Recent Significant Life Events

7/2/21: Interviewed on Graying Rainbows podcast.
5/23/21: Attended my first band practice with Dad's band.
5/14/21 - 5/16/21: Got my first post-pandemic visit with Meghan.
5/12/21: Became fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
4/23/21: Met my friend Fen in person for the first time.
3/12/21: Joined a rock band with my dad.
3/9/21: Found out my book would be published in French.
12/25/20: Hosted a Christmas dinner with Mom and two friends.
12/25/20: My friend Brendon died.
11/9/20: Began querying literary agents for my novel Stupid Questions.
11/1/20: My short story "Everyone's Gay in Space" was published in After Dinner Conversation.
10/31/20: Gave out candy alone from my garage for Halloween because of plague.
10/27/20: Did a three-hour livestream on YouTube for Ace Week.
9/27/20: Joined a postcard-writing campaign to encourage votes for Democrats in the Senate.
9/1/20: My job moved to a new office location in Tampa.
7/28/20: Started playing weekly online games with Meghan and some friends.
7/6/20: Joined an app-based diet program to try to lose some weight.
6/9/20: Got invited to play test and promote a Steven Universe card battling game.

Most recent writing news

The Invisible Orientation got a French publishing deal.
Began querying literary agents for novel Stupid Questions.
Short story "Everyone's Gay in Space" sold to After Dinner Conversation.
Began working on In Bloom, a YA science fiction LGBT romance, during NaNoWriMo.
The Invisible Orientation was published in Japanese.
My previously published short piece "Asexual, Aromantic, Parnerless, Childless – And Happy" was included in the Drunk Monkeys Volume 3 anthology.
My short story "On the Inside" was published in James Gunn's Ad Astra.
I began writing my new novel Ace of Arts.
The paperback for my book The Invisible Orientation was released.
An article I wrote was republished in Mindbodygreen.
New novel finished: Bad Fairy 2.
More Me in the Media

Interviewed about asexuality on Graying Rainbows.
Where's My Jetpack? Podcast interviewed me about queer activism and Steven Universe, with a Part 2.
Smash Pages (the comics super blog) did an interview with me about my webcomics.
I was interviewed in BuzzFeed's coverage of Me Too from an asexual perspective.
My advice is offered in the Savage Love Letter of the Day.
The Invisible Orientation discussed on podcast Lip Readings.
Interviewed in Convergence.
Interviewed in Tech Insider.
Interviewed in A Plus.
Interviewed in US News and World Report.
Published a new short piece on asexuality in Drunk Monkeys.
Interviewed in The Varsity.
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Recent Videos

Letters to an Asexual #83

Letters to an Asexual #82

Letters to an Asexual #81

Letters to an Asexual #80
Letters to an Asexual #79

Ace Interviews #9: Eric

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Latest Comics
Negative One #852
9/10/2021

So You Write #123
8/31/21

Latest Drawings
"In Bloom"
Kamber & Joanne

Steven Universe
Rain Before Rainbow

Recent Photos of Me

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Full album

Recent Singing Performances

Black Hole Sun
Under Pressure
Smoke on the Water

Don't Speak

Losing My Religion

Sweet Surrender

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Interesting Purchases
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Recently Read Books

How Mirka Met a Meteorite
Barry Deutsch

What If It's Us
Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera

Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid

Solutions and Other Problems
Allie Brosh

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home
Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

Cherished Memories
Taylor Robin & S.M. Mara

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Currently Reading
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

Luigi Pirandello
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Next To Read
Catch and Kill

Ronan Farrow
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Projects In Development

Videos:

Swanky Six: Interview video
Swanky Six: "Love You"
Swanky Six: "Dobbin's Flowery Vale"
Portal 2: "Want You Gone"
Joanna Newsom song "Sprout and the Bean"
Animaniacs collection show-off
Websites:

Finish autobiography page (from 2006)
TV shows page
Food page
Asshole of the Day (incorporate into Rants)
Comics page
Music page

Writing and Creative Projects:

Do an Album Drawing for X & Y
Pursue publication for older short stories
Write third Bad Fairy book
Finish Joint Custody
Write YA science fiction story
Write YA asexual lesbian story
Rewrite "The Curse" short story
Other Projects:

Give a facelift to older essays
Incorporate some memorable blog posts into essays/rants
Read Francesca Lia Block books and incorporate into fansite
Add old childhood drawings to my site
Organize old family photos

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