A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Red Room

January 19

Recently, the witty and insightful Alexander Besher got in touch with me about contributing to Flowers Under the Sand, an anthology of fantasy and sci-fi by Middle Eastern and Muslim authors. As we were swapping emails, he mentioned he had a page at redroom.com, a new site whose goal is to bring a myriad of authors to the same digital space, creating the largest concentration of literary talent and discussion on the web. I checked it out, and they’re not kidding: Amy Tan, Salman Rushdie, Khaled Husseini, Ayelet Waldman and Maya Angelou are all blogging there. Yes, blogging. As I was browsing through the About page, I discovered the site is run by none other than Ivory Madison, my dear colleague in superherodom, with whom I share an editor at DC. (Her miniseries Huntress comes out later this year.) It’s a small world, or as I’ve increasingly found, all writers eventually meet all other writers.

Now I’ve got a page at Red Room too, which I’m excited about--I’ve never been two clicks away from the likes of Maya Angelou before. You can take a peek at it here. I’ll probably reserve that space to write about writing, an indulgence I don’t usually allow myself.

Back to work. The more I do, the more there is.