The Life Of Alma — A Serialized Excerpt
An urban LGBTQ literary fiction story
This story is hosted on the LGBTQ-centric publication Prism & Pen and represents the first 15,000 words of a literary fiction manuscript, The Life Of Alma. It has been broken down into 5 digestible segments for your reading convenience.
Alma’s life will GRIP you. This is possibly the most authentic, powerful fiction ever to appear in P&P. And each chapter stands on its own.
- James Finn, Editor of Prism & Pen, Top Writer In LGBTQ | Racism | Education
This is a serialized story that represents the first 15k-words of a forthcoming urban, literary fiction novel, The Life Of Alma, following a young, Afro-Latina, transgender woman navigating life and love in New York City in the early 2000s.
While this subject matter may appeal to a wider audience, it was written for this woefully underrepresented community. We are living during a time of unprecedented transgender awareness and emerging trans-focused art. Highly successful television programs like FX’s Pose and HBO’s Legendary, and documentaries like Sara Jordenö’s Kiki and Vice’s My House have brought to the public consciousness an underground world of transsexualism, pageantry, and sexual liberation. There remains a yearning in the ethnic minority transgender and non-binary communities for representation in sophisticated literary fiction where the characters and settings are contemporary, relevant, urban, and ethnic.
Transgenderism in black and brown communities is not an in-vogue fad that can be censored, plastic-wrapped, and delivered to the public with a pretty pink bow. It is complicated, often difficult to mitigate, and painstakingly human.
Now I just have to convince a publisher that a story about a lovable, minority, transgender woman with a complicated past has potential in the American literary market … 🧎🏽♂️🚶🏽♂️🏃🏽♂️
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For more on the current struggle with getting this book published ⬇
For more information on ethnic transgender communities and to help support ethnic transgender individuals, please visit the Trans Women Of Color Collective
Thanks for reading!
(30 rejections and counting)
