Last month I took a big leap of faith, with lots of helpful hand holding from my husband, and applied for a position as a literature editor on the Troll in the Corner website. I supplied a book review and an editorial piece I did on National Novel Writing Month as samples for them to consider. Outside of a few Friday Flash pieces, it's really the first time I've shared anything I've written with someone outside my comfort zone (which at this point has been limited to a few instructors back in college and my husband). I didn't get the editor position, but they did offer me a spot as an author, which I nervously accepted--again with lots of encouragement from my husband.
The offer was to pick a topic of my choice that I could cover over the course of five blog posts. I spent an evening thinking about it and decided to do something on Alternate History fiction, a sub genre of Science Fiction, or Historical, or Literary, depending on who you ask apparently. I chose that topic after finally beginning to read Michael Chabon's "The Yiddish Policemen's Union", a straight up modern crime drama which just happens to have a different post World War II history (OK, so maybe that means it's not just a straight up crime drama). I'd never been interested in this genre before, but the book sparked my drive to research and I'm now interested in finding other books that I might enjoy. This new gig also led to my husband and I attending our first Marcon convention down in Columbus, OH. Which has led me to come up with my first official post for Troll in the Corner, a review of the convention. If you have a chance, give it a read and let me know what you think. I need all the feedback I can get!
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