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Pride Month story and small announcement.
5 years ago
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Happy Pride Month!
I just released a story today, titled Coffee and Free-Fall. It's set in one of my favorite settings, which, probably amusingly, was invented for an epic sci-fi action adventure story with spies and politics and racial tensions and the galactic fate of humanity at stake. The only stories I've managed to finish in the setting, though, are small-scale things, mostly slice of life. (Though there is an upcoming anthology with one where a character punches a nazi, so that's fun!)
I thought I would share this particular story on this particular day/month for several reasons. It's one of two I've written about Emily/Eli, both of which are in some way about LGBT issues, and also both of which are in some way about me.
I don't think I can call this "coming out" because I haven't been in the closet about it, exactly, but I have reached a point where using "Stephanie" as my pen name just doesn't work, so I figure it's time for an official announcement. As I hate to completely cut ties with all my previous books, I'm swapping back to just S. Park as my pen name. I used the full Stephanie when I was first published, way back in 2006, because a bad pun as an author's name felt silly. But hey, bad puns are at least memorable, and the S. is a way to not ditch Stephanie entirely while also not feeling incredibly uncomfortable when talking to people as an author.
The actual name I go by these days is Aidan. So hi. Nice to meet you all.
You can still call me "spark" too if you like that's fine! "Sparkwrites" is the name of the account and "spark" is totally a thing I also go by. But if we're talking about "The real person behind the writer S.Park" then the name is definitely Aidan, not Stephanie. :3
P.S. My patrons on Patreon are getting the sequel to this story today. Toss me a buck now if you'd like to read it early! It'll be up here sometime in the coming month.
Thanks!
I just released a story today, titled Coffee and Free-Fall. It's set in one of my favorite settings, which, probably amusingly, was invented for an epic sci-fi action adventure story with spies and politics and racial tensions and the galactic fate of humanity at stake. The only stories I've managed to finish in the setting, though, are small-scale things, mostly slice of life. (Though there is an upcoming anthology with one where a character punches a nazi, so that's fun!)
I thought I would share this particular story on this particular day/month for several reasons. It's one of two I've written about Emily/Eli, both of which are in some way about LGBT issues, and also both of which are in some way about me.
I don't think I can call this "coming out" because I haven't been in the closet about it, exactly, but I have reached a point where using "Stephanie" as my pen name just doesn't work, so I figure it's time for an official announcement. As I hate to completely cut ties with all my previous books, I'm swapping back to just S. Park as my pen name. I used the full Stephanie when I was first published, way back in 2006, because a bad pun as an author's name felt silly. But hey, bad puns are at least memorable, and the S. is a way to not ditch Stephanie entirely while also not feeling incredibly uncomfortable when talking to people as an author.
The actual name I go by these days is Aidan. So hi. Nice to meet you all.
You can still call me "spark" too if you like that's fine! "Sparkwrites" is the name of the account and "spark" is totally a thing I also go by. But if we're talking about "The real person behind the writer S.Park" then the name is definitely Aidan, not Stephanie. :3
P.S. My patrons on Patreon are getting the sequel to this story today. Toss me a buck now if you'd like to read it early! It'll be up here sometime in the coming month.
Thanks!
