For those who may be visiting for the first time after hearing my interview on To The Best of Our Knowledge, welcome, and thanks for listening.
I invite you to check out some of the content here that may be of particular interest to you:
Stories
You can read two stories of Mars: “And Salome Danced” (from which I read during the segment), and “Dangerous Space”.
Interviews
Speculating Gender at Ambling Along the Aqueduct — a lengthy interview about gender in life and in fiction.
Reality Break podcast — a lengthy audio interview about the collection Dangerous Space, the character of Mars, my novel Solitaire and my recent experience with screenwriting.
Essays
“Identity and Desire” — the genesis of the Mars character.
“The Erotics of Gender Ambiguity” — an online discussion that took place about “And Salome Danced” and the gender ambiguity of Mars.
And just because I think it’s cool
This story vid created by Karina in response to the story “Strings” (which is included in my collection and which you can read here).
Thanks for stopping by.
I heard you on TTBOOK at 3am and your reading about Mars woke me up. Not only did your 1 minute book excerpt made my hair stand, but your discussion on TTBOOK is also so smooth, articulate and POWERFUL, just like your story. I said to myself, who is this woman? The few minutes on radio left me such a deep impression. I immediately ordered 3 copies of Dangerous Space (2 for my friends) from Amazon and looked up your blog. I look forward to reading your entire book. Thank you Kelley!
Thank you! I’m jazzed to hear that you responded that way to the reading and the interview. I very much hope that you and your friends enjoy the stories. Let me know what you think.
Back in the day before all this intarweb stuff, I used to send out my stories, get an author’s copy of the magazine or book they appeared in… and wonder, was anyone reading them? Did people like the stories, were they touched, were they moved? And mostly, I never knew whether my work was reaching anyone in any way.
That’s all changed. And it still gives me a rush like nothing else to get up and find something like this on the blog. Thanks very much indeed.