Just felt a sudden urge to add

[msagara]

... that there are, of course, authors who are considered midlist by the PTB, who are in fact making a reasonable living as writers. The gloomy spiral of doom about which one hears rather a lot is not by any means the only fate for a midlist writer.

That, and I think I want to be Tamora Pierce when I grow up.

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[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I want to be Tamora Pierce, too, but mostly because she's doing a comic book for Marvel. :)

[msagara.livejournal.com]

I just ... I just love the way she expresses a very passionate, very feminist fury as if all injustice had only just occurred; as if it was here and now and fresh and not somehow simply politics, position, etc. Her writing is so on point and so vibrant and so Right There.

Although when I think of the one time I shared a panel with her, I now cringe at the whole being-me on that particular day =/

The Marvel comics thing is cool, though.