ANNOUNCEMENT FROM MATTHEW J. METZGER

TRANS FICTION WEEK NOVEMBER 14 - 20 2016

Transgender Awareness Week is from Monday 14th to Sunday 20th November 2016. So we’re going to mark the occasion!

Transgender and non-binary people are enormously under-represented in media, including in the LGBT fiction world, and yet we have so many amazing stories to be told. So for one week, we are going to be focusing on transgender and non-binary voices, perspectives, and characters as told by the people writing, reading, working and creating queer stories.

We’re seeking blog submissions from people of all gender identities—yes, including cis—about transgender folks in LGBT fiction, from the living and breathing transgender and non-binary people among us (hi!) to the adventures of our fictional counterparts. If you write trans fiction already, tell us how. If you want to read more trans fiction, tell us what. If you’re trans, tell us what it’s like, and the dos and don’ts of positive representation. If you’re cis, tell us why you care and what your fellow allies can do to help trans people more. From where are the trans heroes in M/M through to why travelling to cons can be scary as hell, we want to hear it. Everyone is welcome, as long as we share the shame goal: inclusion, irrespective of gender identity.

Submissions will go up at www.transfictionweek.com throughout the week. Submissions should include the post itself (up to 2,000 words), one graphic if desired, and an author bio of no more than 200 words. Deadline for submissions is Friday 11 November 2016. Completed submissions should be sent to transfictionweek@gmail.com by that time.

Interested? Fill out this form, and we’ll be in touch! If you have any questions, please drop us a line at transfictionweek@gmail.com

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Matthew J. Metzger - What It Looks Like

Author: Matthew J Metzger

Release Date: August 20 2016

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Length: 80,615 words

Blurb

Eli Bell is the only son of a police chief inspector and a forensic scientist. He's grown up wonky in a world that only deals with the straight and narrow -- and his new boyfriend isn't helping.

Rob Hawkes is six feet of muscle, tattoos, and arrest warrants. A career criminal and a former guest of Her Majesty's Prison Service, he'd rather hit Eli's parents than sit down to dinner with them. One wrong move, and Rob could destroy Eli -- and his family -- without a second thought.

But this isn't what it looks like.

Rob's not in control here -- and Eli's the one to blame. 

Author Bio

Matthew J. Metzger is the front for a British-born author dragged up in the south of England as part of a typical nuclear family with three kids, a mortgage, and no dog because a dog would get hair on the carpet. A brief escape to the north to study focused his writing from daydreaming rambles to his first novel, Our Last Summer. It is unquestionably better than the dissertation he produced at the same time for his university degree, but probably not as inventive as the excuses he provided for missing classes so often.

Matthew has since returned to the London area, and therefore lives mostly on the public transport. He suspects that his next few pieces will probably involve homicidal characters on the London Underground.

For more information, please visit matthewjmetzger.wordpress.com.

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