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Recent Significant Life Events

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.
5/20/20: Celebrated 15 years of running my webcomic Negative One.
5/19/20: Participated in the first socially distant team interview at my job.
4/26/20: Won Best of Crafts 2020 on Steven Universe Amino.
3/4/20: Got asked to blurb another author's book for the first time.
3/27/20: My favorite show Steven Universe ended its run.
3/16/20: Began working from home because of Covid-19.
2/18/20: Completed my Steven Universe trading card collection.
1/17/20 – 1/19/20: Meghan visited for our birthdays.
12/23/19: Family came to stay with me for the holidays from San Francisco.

Most recent writing news

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.
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.
My short story "Her Mother's Child" was published in Kaleidotrope.
More Me in the Media

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.
Published my first blog in Psychology Today.
Interviewed in Yorokobu.
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Recent Videos

Ace Week Livestream 2020

Ace Interviews #6: yaelaed

Ace Interviews #5: Maxwell

Ace Interviews #4: Marta

Ace Interviews #3: Destiny

Ace Interviews #2: Ruby

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Latest Comics
Negative One #811
11/27/2020

So You Write #113
10/31/20

Latest Drawings
"In Bloom"
Kamber & Joanne

Steven Universe
Rain Before Rainbow

Recent Photos of Me

Full album
Recent Favorite Photos

Full album

Recent Singing Performances

Do You Remember
Unwritten
Ghost

A Whole New World

All the Things She Said

One More Chance

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Interesting Purchases
[purchases]

Recently Read Books

Asexual Erotics
Ela Przybylo

Steven Universe: End of an Era
Chris McConnell

Animorphs Graphic Novel #1
K.A. Applegate, Michael Grant, Chris Grine

Gravity Is the Thing
Jaclyn Moriarty

Emma
Jane Austen

To Be Happy
Rebecca Sugar, Sarah Gailey, Rii Abrego

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Currently Reading
The Book Thief

Markus Zusak
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Next To Read
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home

Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
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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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