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#writephant

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

Self-promo time! What links, publications or media would you like to share? #Writephant

I recently finished writing a feminist SF web-novel that I published on Mastodon. Mars Needed Women is a woman-centric adventure story of overcoming adversity while being female, with all the warts and frustrations, not as a man in disguise. It starts with ugliness of today's world having become the dystopian norm a hundred years from now. It takes thinly veiled jabs at a prominent bad actor. Our heroine, May Ri escapes becoming little more than a housewife to help colonize Mars, if you can call being shanghaied escaping, and being required to have children. (She does get to choose the gorgeous supportive guy, though, so that's a positive.) She's there with her children as power slowly shifts from being male-dominated. As the mothers and daughters increasingly control Mars' future (how is spoilers), May Ri with the support of her daughters gets to help create a world (Mars) the way unfettered women would image it. The men of Earth will take affront, of course. They will learn that women don't fight like men, especially when their children's lives are threatened, and their wellbeing is at stake. #RSMarsNeededWomen

I will keep the web-novel available free-to-read at this link at least until April 10th: eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/11408894. I am currently revising and expanding it, and plan to republish as a book later.

Here is posted a revised book jacket.

#BoostingIsSharing

The cover art for Mars Needed Women. The background is of the Mars surface with rover tracks, big rocks, sand, and a greenish sky. There is a triskelion image of Mars, which is a tattoo in the story. Credit NASA and ESA for the photos. The back cover reads as follows: Shanghaied May Ri struggled when the EM goon clamped an aromatic wet rag over her nose and mouth... Waking weightless and nauseated—stuffy head pounding, being floated somewhere—despite grogginess, she eyes-closed punched someone, spinning away to bounce off a wall. The click of cartilage, the thump off a bulkhead, the blare of a warning horn, and "Rig for ring spin!" rang in her ears. A tech clapped a bag over her mouth before she vomited up her last putrified meal, while enduring the blonde's glare as blood beaded around her nose. May Ri glowered back. Sitting on the wall, dragged on her butt, her inner ear then her innards soon informed her the wall was becoming the floor. From the author: “A hopeful deeply-dystopian feminist SF story, with thinly veiled jabs at our current world's bad actors making for a bad future. Please note the past tense in the title: Mars Needed Women. The story's women are going to work to bring down the system, at least that part that's oppressing them, in a massive unscheduled disassembly.”
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Wendy Palmer

@neve #writephant Q3 Have you ever taken a real historical event (or person) and worked it into your fiction?

I’ve been doing this more commonly with my last few books, mostly events — the Great Stink, for example. Even in my books set in fantasy lands, I’ve used real history to inform them.

My next WIP will use both real events and real people (minor figures only), as it will be set at Hampton Court Palace. I’m deep in the research part of it now.

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Wendy Palmer

@neve #writephant Q2 Have you ever read a nonfiction book that turned out to be more entertaining than a novel?

Quite often! I’m dreadful with the titles, but there was a recent one about a couple whose hobby was robbing regional museums across Europe. A heist novel, but real (less fun, they tried to hide their crimes by destroying the stolen artworks at the end 😞)

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Wendy Palmer

@neve #writephant Q1 If you read nonfiction, do you prefer memoirs, history, science, self-improvement, true crime, or another subgenre?

I used to read a lot of science in the biological, sociological and psychological fields, but these days read mostly history, and the occasional true crime as long as it’s also historical.

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