SNOWFLAKE CHALLENGE #4: ME ME ME

[queenslayerbee]

 

IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm gonna cheat just a little bit, because really, I find talking about myself extremely difficult. But! Lucky for me, I already had to do such titanic effort when I had to introduce myself on January 1st for my brand new author's newsletter (#selfpromo). So I'm just going to borrow from that section. If you want to read the rest (writing updates, an excerpt from an upcoming story, recommendations), you'll have to click the link :P

I was born in 1996 in Spain, where I’ve lived for the past 27 years, moving back and forth between my city and my hometown for my various temp jobs (paralegal in the city, farm work in the country, and camp counselor during some summers).

This 2023, after some really bumpy years, I finished my law & politics degree, and my long-term plan is to… keep studying (and working), this time with the goal of attaining a particular position as a public servant that will both give me a comfortable salary & means, and require me to travel a lot outside the country like I’ve always wanted. It’s not an easy position to attain (or an easy job to do once you attain it), and I anticipate it’ll take me a couple more years to get there, but right now it feels worth the extra effort, both for what it entails and for its perks.

For the first time in I don’t even know how long it feels like my life might finally be somewhat on track *knocks on wood*, and I think that’s going to mean good things for my more artistic side. I don’t think writing for a living is something I would want to do even if I could do it, but writing is certainly what I love doing most in the world, and I’m happy to say I’m moving forward with that too.

What do I write? Mainly fantasy, and speculative fiction in many forms; always directed at adult audiences, and always, always centered around women. The tone and specific subgenre varies, but it’s true I tend to work on the grim, melancholic side of things. If any of that sounds up your alley, you’ll find it here.

And just to tell you a few other things about myself… I do some amateur photography; I’m weirdly fascinated by owls; I want to re-learn how to play guitar; I love everything purple/lilac/maroon/etc.; I just started learning Arabic; and I am currently deep in the clutches of Detective Comics Comics.

As for an ice breaker... ask me a top 5 [insert anything here] in the comments, and I'll reply!

Comments

[miss_grimwood]

Glad to hear things are going well for you lately! I’m about to start a speculative fiction module, so top 5 works of speculative fiction?

[queenslayerbee]

Thank you!

That list is very broad lol; "works" includes books, films, etc., and speculative fiction is basically anything that departs from realism. With that in mind, right now I'd say, in no particular order:

-"Monstress" by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. The world in that comic has me absolutely captivated.

-The Essence of the Equinox series by Camilla Andrew. I met this indie author in tumblr, and fell in love with her fantasy world, quite different from what you usually get in temporary fantasy, her flowery prose, and her way of writing horror with it. She has a novel and a shorter novelette/prequel published, as well as a couple short stories in magazines, and is going to publish another novel (2nd in a trilogy) at the end of this year. You can find her stuff here; IIRC there was an offer to get the first book's ebook really cheap rn -and she often runs those.

-Frankenstein by Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley. Probably my favourite book, when it comes down to it.

-Pan's Labyrinth. That film is very important to me.

-The Vampire Diaries, for how much that show influenced my teenage years and turned me into the cynical woman I am today xD