Do you know of Chuck Wendig, author extraordinaire and dispenser of really good literary advice you are free to ignore because he knows not all advice works for everyone?

Well you should, and he has an awesome blog called Terrible Minds where you can find out about the many things he cares about and his many many novels (which include Star Wars tie-in work, so like, he’s living the dream).

Recently he hosted me for a personal essay on Tremontaine, how it handles queerness, and why that – and Swordspoint (the book that started it all) – really matters to me, because of time and place and the communal trauma of the AIDS years.