Category: Politics

Why I am self-publishing

Shortly before the election, I found this on Reddit:  Racist YA novel receives backlash.  This was posted at the cesspit known as Oh No They Didn’t, a LiveJournal community dedicated to celebrity gossip.  I used to visit that site frequently but after the 2008 election, I stopped, and I haven’t really missed it since. I…

By Elaine Arias November 30, 2016 Off

Happy Thanksgiving

I am grateful to be an American.  I am grateful to have been born in this great country, and I am grateful to live here. I have Native American ancestry on both sides of my family, and I still feel this way, regardless of what happened in the past.  No nation has a perfectly peaceful,…

By Elaine Arias November 24, 2016 Off

So it begins

Alrighty then.  After moping about my horrible week, I decided to do some reading.  After all, it’s a much needed distraction given all the drama that’s going on in my life at the moment. My novel, Nemesis, deals with a lot of themes.  One of them is sexual abuse.  I am sorry if the topic…

By Elaine Arias November 23, 2016 Off