10 years ago I published a queer-affirming young adult cyberpunk thriller critique of neoliberal capitalism, like you do. It nearly went out of print, and then...it didn't.
Proxy was an amazing book that meant so much to me reading it in high school. Our school librarian invited you to talk to us and I had been thrilled to listen to you talk. Later me and a few other fans in our book club got to see you again at bookstore event here in town in San Antonio. I was so excited, me and my mom even made shirts for all of us and you in anticipation for the event. The "Proxy Support Group" shirts because we were all just so struck by the book. I am so glad that I got to read Proxy then, and so glad I got to meet you three times (so far!). Proxy and Guardian both have a special place in my heart, and a special place on my bookshelf. Thank you for the story you told, the messages you bring, and the books you put out. I wish Proxy wasn't just as relevant today as it was then but I am just as glad to have read it, glad it's out there for people to read and glad to have found you as an author through it.
What a lovely note to receive! I remember this visit well, especially the “Support Group”. Those t-shirts were great! You 3 were the only people who came to that bookstore event and I remember how grateful I was that any young people at all cared, let alone cared enough to make matching t-shirts! It buoyed my spirits then and the memory still makes me smile. Thank you.
Proxy was an amazing book that meant so much to me reading it in high school. Our school librarian invited you to talk to us and I had been thrilled to listen to you talk. Later me and a few other fans in our book club got to see you again at bookstore event here in town in San Antonio. I was so excited, me and my mom even made shirts for all of us and you in anticipation for the event. The "Proxy Support Group" shirts because we were all just so struck by the book. I am so glad that I got to read Proxy then, and so glad I got to meet you three times (so far!). Proxy and Guardian both have a special place in my heart, and a special place on my bookshelf. Thank you for the story you told, the messages you bring, and the books you put out. I wish Proxy wasn't just as relevant today as it was then but I am just as glad to have read it, glad it's out there for people to read and glad to have found you as an author through it.
What a lovely note to receive! I remember this visit well, especially the “Support Group”. Those t-shirts were great! You 3 were the only people who came to that bookstore event and I remember how grateful I was that any young people at all cared, let alone cared enough to make matching t-shirts! It buoyed my spirits then and the memory still makes me smile. Thank you.