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Voices Carry


A work of Non-fiction


Subgenres:

  • LGBTQ+ Memoir,
  • Transgender Memoir,
  • Teacher Memoir
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Memoirs from queer educators in conservative communities
  • Firsthand accounts of surviving discrimination in schools and beyond
  • Stories of refusing to stay silent about identity
Publisher Description

The Rules:

Clone thyself

Learn teleportation. The sooner the better.

Trust no one.

These are the rules I learned as a middle school teacher, though it was the last one that drove me from the classroom forever. Like many educators, I couldn't survive the politics. After thirteen years, I bailed. How did I, an abuse-surviving queer, end up teaching in the middle of the Bible Belt? Better yet, how did I survive?

New Rule of Life: Neither my silence nor my identity is for sale at any price.

My former vice principal said it best (though I wasn't supposed to see that email) when he asked, "Why does she always have to write a damn novel?"

So here I am. Writing a damn novel. As to the why…because I believe in changing the world, one word at a time.

Navigating discrimination, whether it's from employers, medical professionals, colleagues, or family, is often fraught with uncertainty. Join Raven Oak on their journey of transition and self-discovery in a world built on silence.

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I write in a lot of speculative fiction genres such as space opera, epic fantasy, magical realism, urban fantasy, gothic fantasy, space exploration, and horror, as well as mystery and historical fiction.

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