Due to a few factors far outside of my control, I have elected to stop my graduate school pursuits for the time being and focus on other things.
I am still passionate about contributing to the burgeoning understanding of autism and neurodiversity, and I am still dedicated to developing methods of accommodation and accessibility even for those of us who are not formally or functionally diagnosed.
My time needs to be devoted to different projects right now. In particular, I am focusing on my fiction writing.
Not that I wasn’t focusing on it before – you know I have two entire books out right now – but I think that purpose is best served right now by proposing that better world (or different world) than just talking about it in clinical terms.
To that point, I am going to be at the Roanoke (Texas) Writers Conference on November 9, 2024. I’ll be giving a presentation on specific tools to organize larger stories and universes, much of which I also used in my graduate studies. My class is called “Stranger than Fiction” and I will additionally be discussing why research is so important for especially fiction writers.
I will have hard-copies of my books for signing and sale, plus I have exclusive posters of the cover for the second edition of “Thiside of Anywhere.”
And I’ll be reading “Xivie and the Menagerie” and “Edge of Seventeen”, out loud, with my face.
And also, I’m one of the organizers of the event, so it would be super if you could come and see me. It’s free this year.
(And there’s also a flash fiction contest.)
Okay, that’s it. I’ll get back to work now.