A Thread of Deepest Black by Finn Marlowe

That being said, don’t throw in angst for the sake of angst-I’m not a fan of torturing characters for no good reason. If I’m crying by the middle of the book and have a hangover by the end, I’ll most likely call that a good book. I love angst and am not afraid of a tear-jerker.I want stories written by queer disabled people of color about queer disabled people of color.

I also host the World of Stories podcast about diversity representation (or lack thereof) in books, TV, movies, and other storytelling platforms. Almost all of my books have some element of travel and mouth-watering descriptions of food. I primarily write contemporary romance featuring queer people of color.

My family immigrated from Taiwan to Toronto in the 1980s, and as a settler on this land, I have benefited from the historical and ongoing oppression of Indigenous peoples. I’m based in Toronto, the traditional territories of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnaabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. Instead of conforming to either, I’ve tried to find a third way that brings together the positive elements of both. I am a bisexual, Taiwanese-Canadian woman (she/her) who was raised by conservative immigrant parents and grew up straddling two cultures with often times competing perspectives on life. It ends in February with an Agent Showcase, where agents can read a pitch/first page and can request to read more. Pitch Wars is a mentoring program where published/agented authors, editors, or industry interns choose one writer each to spend three months revising their manuscript. Hi, I’m Hudson Lin (she/her, you can call me Lin)! I am super stoked to be an Adult Mentor for this year’s Pitch Wars! I’ll be accepting romance, science fiction/speculative fiction, memoir, and narrative non-fiction.

A Thread of Deepest Black by Finn Marlowe