Re: Seeking Blind/VI writers for an anthology.
"Hmm, ... oh, I guess I am / was a blind/VI author; maybe I should look at it?"
*Reads requirements*
Ah, requires blind/VI protagonist(s) and a coverletter about how your disability has affected your history with publishing? That's more challenging.
Not that I haven't written / taken detailed notes on things I might or might not ever write that involve blind/VI protagonists. It's generally sufficiently negligible that you mightn't notice if I don't say so outright, or skip the parts where it matters.
But my history with publishing is entirely mediated via the internet. The only way that blindness ever got involved was this mess of a website, whose image map is all out of whack because I made it in PowerPoint and tried editing the HTML by hand, then that got screwy so I tried writing a script to adjust everything, which just made it worse, and even were none of that the case, it almost certainly looks terrible.
Also that book was published with a horrible, horrible print-on-demand company who could be as well replaced with publishing on Amazon and a trip to Kinko's, even when it was published. ... As in, I think I might have a box of Kinko's prints we made before getting the contract. This mostly because I was barely in high school at the time, and better options were all 18+. I guess I got some OK bookmarks and business cards out of it? And I know that one copy they printed was destroyed in an apartment fire?
Misuse of the question mark aside... I get this feeling that I'm a horrible match for this project. I have an 11-year-old short, in which I was trying out weird minimalism tricks, which sorta ticks all the boxes, but it's minimalist and the box-tickings are never mentioned. (It completely glosses over the part where the VI character gets from point A to point B and back without getting found out, iirc we are never shown anyone's skin color other than maybe the ... antagonist? If you know what's actually happening, it's a weird tragedy about an abused gay boy's already messed up life falling apart the rest of the way as he tries to salvage what he can, while his VI crush fails to recognize him through his disguise and they they wind up fighting until the police show up ... but it's all from the latter's perspective, and you only get fragments of backstory, so everything I just explained is almost impossible to infer from the text.).
:oops: , I seem to have narcissism'd myself into wanting to go reread that thing to see how bad it is.
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