“The time has come,” the Writer said,
“To talk of many things:
“Of blogs – and books – and pseudonyms –
Of websites – and of wings –
And why things may be changing –
And what the future brings.”
(thanks and apologies to Lewis Carroll)
It’s hard to believe this blog has been live for over four years, and we are quickly approaching the time when I began to take it seriously, and what I consider its birthday. Of course, that ended up being six days before my wife had the audacity to die on me, forever altering… well, everything. I know I’ve mentioned my brave friend who asked me if I was going to keep that promise to keep writing, keep posting, before I even starting receiving the mail that follows such a death. And I have. I’ve fallen off in the number of posts per month over the years, when life and mental health struggles got in the way. But I haven’t stopped writing.
In the past 4 years, I’ve written 74 installments for this blog, along with guest blogs, essays, chapters, letters, short stories, and drafted three full-length books – one in waiting, one independently published, and one about to be.
My name is Riley Adaris, and I write queer fiction.
My name is Eliza de Rodillas, and I write spicy Sapphic romance.
My name is Queer Mama Rising, and I write this blog.
This blog – this soft landing, this expression of the world around me and inside me – isn’t going anywhere. You can still find it right here, in your inbox, or on Facebook.
What is changing is the world it exists in. I have been using Flannel and Ink as the umbrella for my books, and it’s time for the blog to have space there as well. The website will be under intermittent construction for a bit (currently it’s devoted to Riley’s book) but please check it out.
If you’d like to follow my other writing adventures, please fill out this Google form.
If you’d like to follow me on Instagram for all said adventures, you can find me @flannelandink.
If you’d like to buy my book (and especially if you’d like to leave a review!) you can just click here. Reviews on Amazon are the only thing that pushes the book out for more people to see it.
This blog will return to its regularly semi-scheduled programming next week. Probably.
Stay tuned.
Queer Mama Rising 