Nerd on the net since '74. 40yrs doing hi-tech things I’ve never done before. Now a novelist, comic book writer, editor & publisher—stuff I haven’t done before!
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My #Fantasy #Book "Aunt Jenny and the Delayed Quest" is NOW on sale at Amazon (B&N—next tweet).
A retired librarian falls through a magic mirror and must save a world that fairy queens, mages, sages and demigods have not.
Kindle, paperback & hardcover.
amazon.com//dp/B0CL5J4LLJ/
On the web page for my forthcoming novel, La Maupin, Mistress of the Sword, I ask a number of questions regarding the use of AI, and solicit feedback, either through the feedback email links there or in comments here.
Please tell me what you think.
lamaupin.com/appropriate-ai.…
La Maupin was not the only famous cross-dressing woman of her day. There was also the heroic, decorated woman soldier Geneviève Prémoy, known as "Chevalier Baltazar". For a decade and a half, she passed for a man.
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lamaupin.com/baltazar.html
When her identity was exposed, the Sun King allowed her to continue serving and awarded her the military Order of Saint-Louis.
There's no concrete evidence that they ever met, but there were multiple reasons that they should have…
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in my current Work-in-Progress, "La Maupin, Mistress of the Sword", they do. Come read about who she was, what we know about her and the stories that are told about her in three new pages on my site:
lamaupin.com/baltazar.html
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The dark side of La Maupin.
The real life story of the "Incident of the Key" in which our heroine flies off the handle, commits assault and battery, and has the cops called on her.
Adventures in the research behind “La Maupin, Mistress of the Sword”.
lamaupin.com/sources/night-o…
For those who find the bisexual, cross-dressing, sword-wielding opera star of my forthcoming novel, “La Maupin, Mistress of the Sword” hard to believe, I offer the "The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville" first published in in Paris in 1695. 1/n
lamaupin.com/marquise-marqui…
It is, in short, what you might call a "transgender love story". To seriously oversimplify, in it a physiological male, raised to believe he is a girl falls in love with a boy who cross-dresses and passes as a girl. Of course, terms like "transgender" didn't exist back then… 2/n
…but as this story, first published in 1695, illustrates, the complexity of human relations that they describe were already being talked about in popular media and made sense in the context of society at the time. 3/3
lamaupin.com/marquise-marqui…
Those who’ve read my comics know I’m an old time fan of Superman and Lex. Confrontations between them have become a trope (witness the Midnight Blue arc in my Invictus comic from @GManComics1). The version in the current film is a different cut, but excellent.
How real are the sensational stories told about La Maupin? It is hard to know. Legends grow up around her. BUT… but this one is the most likely, AND her most inglorious.
I don't have the proof in hand that this incident was real, but… (1 of 2)
lamaupin.com/the-key.html
Jim Burrows retweeted
USMC Ret. Lt. Colonel Joe Plenzler deployed with the same Marine battalion now heading to Los Angeles.
Marines training for war are now being deployed against American citizens. This crosses a dangerous line.
Brothers, remember your ethos, #RememberYourOath.
I recently came across a drawing by Reno Maniquis of my character, Tai Chi Dragon, and couldn’t resist turning it into a pair of covers for one of my @GManComics1 titles, Invictus. I May just have to feature her in an issue, just to get this cover printed.
Writers, #WritingCommunity and #font fanciers:
For a book about notorious 1700 opera star, La Maupin.
Which of these fonts would you use?
Athelas
Baskerville
Cochin
Crimson Pro
Crimson Text
EB Garabond
Fanwood
Hoefler Text
Iowan Old Style
Palatino
STIX Two Text
Times New Roman
My latest posting to the website for my forthcoming novel, "La Maupin, Mistress of the Sword" starts the "Is It True" series and centers around the "Convent Incident". Did #lamaupin set fire to a convent and run off with her lover, a nun? Come see…
lamaupin.com/iit-convent.htm…
The website for my WIP, "La Maupin, Mistress of the Sword", has a new article, mysteriously titled "The Unreal Origin of 'La Rousse Ressuscitée'". It's a glimpse behind the scenes on the creation of a character who….
That would be telling. Come see.
lamaupin.com/larousse.html
My next G-Man Comics (@GManComics1) project will be the 60-page Night Lili #1, collecting the 5 Night Lili 6- and 8-page chapters from Invictus: Outrage and G-Man United, along with the 8-page Tales of Red Halo & 10-page Demon Priest origins, the Li’ l Sammy snack cake ad & more.
I’ve posted a new Behind-the-Scenes article, “La Maupin’s Paris” on my website. It describes, using various maps from the time, several of the locales where the action of the novel takes place. Come see it and other BTS articles & excerpts from the novel.
lamaupin.com/lamaupins-paris…
My novel, "La Maupin, Mistress of the Sword", opens with a teaser, an action scene between 2 characters, but the next chapter starts out 8 years earlier and it takes 9 chapters to get back here. So "Prologue"? "Chapter 1"? Something else?
Here it is:
lamaupin.com/snippet-1.html
