Happy Pride, y’all! I am attending St Pete Pride’s Family Day Vendor Fair on Sunday, June 23, 2024, with 3 other sapphic authors. We’ll be selling and signing our books.
If you can’t be in St. Pete, Florida to grab a book in person, I have had my publisher, Supposed Crimes, put my ebooks put on sale for the entire month of June.
Grab my sapphic romances Turning Point and Turn for Home through this promo.
tags: contemporary, self-discovery, celebrity, coming out, motherhood
Grab my bi/pan repping erotic romances We Three and We Fit through this promo.
tags: contemporary, swinging, polyamory, FFM, menage
If you are interested in signed paperbacks, message me with the title you’d like and I’ll see what I can do.
My story
I claimed the label “bisexual” in 2001. I do not consider that I came out then. At the time, I felt the only person(s) who had to know were my spouse and my (very small) circle of LGBTQ friends. I was living where it wasn’t good for my continued employment if I was “out.” And I had my son to consider. He was only 8, and my parents, siblings, and in-laws lived nowhere nearby.
In 2007, I chose publish my first novel under my real name because I was *really* proud of Turning Point, which I’d worked on for more than 5 years. The “About the Author” on my publisher’s website read: “Lara Zielinsky is bisexual writer…” and ended with “…and lives with her husband and son in Orlando, Florida.” The book’s dedication included my spouse because he’s been supportive of my identity and my writing for our entire marriage of (now) 32 years. Apparently, that wasn’t clear enough for some because an early reviewer said they were surprised to find out “a straight woman” wrote “such an incredible story.” The assumption that I was straight because I was married to man continues to dog me and my stories nearly a decade later.
Bisexuality is my chosen label because it best expresses the totality of my romantic and sexual attractions since I first experienced attraction as a pre-teen. I did not stop being bisexual (even though I hadn’t yet claimed the label) when I was dating a woman in college. Nor did I stop being bisexual when I chose to marry a man after college. Each person was the “one” to whom I chose to commit my time, energy, and love.
In other news…
I’m still looking at ways to produce audiobooks that won’t break my bank or yours.
Also, I think have finished drafting the major arcs for my fifth novel. I’m working now on filling in missing scenes and trying to decide if it will be a book 1 of 2 (a little short for the genre, I think) or if I should develop it as a single volume (~110-120k).
What I’m reading…
This month’s reading has been eclectic:
Thanks for reading! I’ll catch up with you again next month.