Estella Mirai

Hey there folks, looks like it’s time for another video game review because... WOW, I really need to shout about this one to the world. Tiny bit of background first: I had actually never heard of Sally Face before, as far as I remember, although I LOVE point-and-click adventures (which this is), and obviously have a very special place in my heart for blue-haired, mask-wearing, disfigured musicians. That’s actually HOW I learned of this game, when my good friend and fellow writer Adam Wing (his books are amazing, please check them out here !) @-ed me in an RT of a gorgeous drawing of a blue-haired guitarist that looked almost, but not quite, like my Rei. (I’m not sure if the artist would be cool with me screenshotting the tweet, so please check it out here .) And it was hashtagged #SallyFace.   So of course I clicked the hashtag, because I had to find out who this character was... and the game he was from sounded EXACTLY LIKE MY THING.   (By the way, if you somehow found this ...

So. This was sort of   immediately  inspired by a random tweet about how not all M/M is erotica.   But it’s something that I’ve been facing ever since I first started trying to get  The Stars May Rise and Fall  published, and it’s something that authors of queer fiction have been facing for even longer: this weird assumption that just because a book is M/M (or F/F), it must be sexually explicit.   My book is not. That’s not a spoiler, as far as I’m concerned—it’s fade to black, please use that as you wish to help you decide whether you’d like to read it or not. I know that fade to black is a negative for some readers and a positive for others. And that others read all heat levels and don’t really care.   And to honest, the choice to do that—to fade to black, rather than writing the sex scene—was one of the ones I agonized the most over. But in the end, I think it was the best choice for THIS particular book. And here’s why.   So first, the points ...