Sara Allen
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(view spoiler)[I'm working on a few things. Afro-futurism was a genre I discovered last year, Although when I think about it, It seems almost counter-intuitive. Afro-futurism tells stories, where the lead characters are of African descent.
Last year I started writing a story about a glacier in the center of Africa. I've included Orisha, which are African dieties, a sacrifice, possession, and a collaborative rescue.
I'm also working on an epic fantasy, where being a Librarian is a magical power, a detective who's a necromancer, a seal to the underworld and a quest with magic scrolls. They encounter scroll guardians who have been guarding their scrolls for over a thousand years, who then go along for the ride.
I'm also writing a remake of Red Riding Hood, where Red and her Grandmother are the antagonists, The Wolf is a shape-shifting forest spirit, the woodcutter, female and endowed with the ability to communicate with trees, she's also a woman of colour, marries the wolf in a forest joining ceremony and goes on a quest to find a plant that will rid him of a binding placed on him by Red and her grandmother.
I also started writing about West Indian Service Women during WW2. This is another historical romance for me, where the MC is a RAF fighter Pilot, the female counterpart is a Jamaican Nurse, who travels to London with her sister who joins the Army before the war starts, and their experiences with racism in London before and during the war, when London is being bombed relentlessly.
The most interesting aspect of all of these, is the research. I have no idea when any of these will be finished, how long any of them will take or what the eventual outcome will be. I write, therefore I am, is a mantra that goes through my head sometimes, and trying not to get distracted... like now, is another. I hope you'll look out for these and more in the near future. (hide spoiler)]
Last year I started writing a story about a glacier in the center of Africa. I've included Orisha, which are African dieties, a sacrifice, possession, and a collaborative rescue.
I'm also working on an epic fantasy, where being a Librarian is a magical power, a detective who's a necromancer, a seal to the underworld and a quest with magic scrolls. They encounter scroll guardians who have been guarding their scrolls for over a thousand years, who then go along for the ride.
I'm also writing a remake of Red Riding Hood, where Red and her Grandmother are the antagonists, The Wolf is a shape-shifting forest spirit, the woodcutter, female and endowed with the ability to communicate with trees, she's also a woman of colour, marries the wolf in a forest joining ceremony and goes on a quest to find a plant that will rid him of a binding placed on him by Red and her grandmother.
I also started writing about West Indian Service Women during WW2. This is another historical romance for me, where the MC is a RAF fighter Pilot, the female counterpart is a Jamaican Nurse, who travels to London with her sister who joins the Army before the war starts, and their experiences with racism in London before and during the war, when London is being bombed relentlessly.
The most interesting aspect of all of these, is the research. I have no idea when any of these will be finished, how long any of them will take or what the eventual outcome will be. I write, therefore I am, is a mantra that goes through my head sometimes, and trying not to get distracted... like now, is another. I hope you'll look out for these and more in the near future. (hide spoiler)]
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