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Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.
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Men
People
Worship
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There's a song", I say. "There's always a song", he says.
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The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.
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Knowing
Past
Path
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The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.
Alaya Dawn Johnson / Writer
Attempting
Decipher
Passages
Oblique
Opened
Possibilities
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I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel.
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Velvet
People Everyone Who
Bought
Equivalent
Literary
Underground
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Very early on in the process of trying to sell 'The Summer Prince,' I was told, 'Slavery seems to be very important to this society - is that on purpose?' Well, duh.
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Duh
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In the publishing sense, 'urban fantasy' does not mean 'black,' and that's pretty ironic, considering that it's a euphemism everywhere else. It would be great to get that back.
Alaya Dawn Johnson / Writer
Considering
Euphemism
Fantasy
Ironic
Publishing
Urban
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The old fiction room at my high school was a small box of wonders, and no matter how long I spent investigating its seven and a half overstuffed shelves, I never stopped discovering treasures.
Alaya Dawn Johnson / Writer
Discovering
Investigating
Shelves
Wonders
Treasures
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The trajectory of a lot of black lives in the 20th century was people moving into cities. A lot of the issue with modern urban fantasy is that it's un-diverse, and that's crazy with what we know the history of cities here to be.
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Cities
Fantasy
Trajectory
Urban
History Black People
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To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that you have to hate to love, or that you have to die to live. I mean that sometimes, you turn out the lights just to turn them back on.
Alaya Dawn Johnson / Writer
Life
Hate
Mean
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Palmares Tres is a society born out of a distinct, idiosyncratic utopian vision formed in the midst of an apocalypse. I would say the residents of Palmares Tres respect the strength of that history and their remarkable ability to rise from the ashes of the old world.
Alaya Dawn Johnson / Writer
Apocalypse
Ashes
Midst
Old World
Remarkable
Residents
Utopian
Rise
Distinct
Formed
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Think of it like the best mac and cheese you've ever had. No neon yellow Velveeta and bread crumbs. I'm talking gourmet cheddar, the expensive stuff from Vermont that crackles as it melts into the crust on top. Imagine if right before you were about to tear into it, the mac and cheese starts talking to you?
Alaya Dawn Johnson / Writer
Talking
Thinking
Yellow
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The big, defining feature of Palmares Tres government is its system of summer kings. The idea is that women 'Aunties' rule, led by a queen with a term limit of 10 years. Men aren't entirely shut out from this system - in fact, they have one of the most important roles in the government - but it's strictly delimited.
Alaya Dawn Johnson / Writer
Defining
Term
Men Women Government
Entirely
Women Men Government
Feature
Queen
Important Roles
Limit
Strictly
Shut
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I was thinking about vampires and, specifically, about what makes vampires a romantic trope: about what people like about not just vampires but supernaturally long-lived creatures in general, which is a thing that shows up in probably fifty to sixty percent of paranormal romances... And then, for some reason, I decided to reverse it.
Alaya Dawn Johnson / Writer
Paranormal
Sixty
Romances
Specifically
Vampires
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There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?
Alaya Dawn Johnson / Writer
Agendas
Bent
Complaining
Diverse
Explicit
Politics Society Political
Involves
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