Writing Without Gender

When I sat down and started developing the concept that would eventually become my novel Mail Order Bride, one of the decisions I made early on in the process was that I wanted the aliens to have a genderless society. I didn’t want them to be a hermaphroditic species, or a species where same gender …

Off to the Editor!

I sent my novel Mail Order Bride off to the editor this morning for a developmental edit.  For those of you who don’t know, a developmental edit is when an editor looks over your work and suggests changes to your story structure, characterization, and other parts of your novel in order to make the work …