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Maria LimaYup. It’s me. Maria Lima, author of the Blood Lines series, unrepentant fangirl and writing geek. The site is a work in progress (mostly because the Web is always being updated!), as is pretty much everything else in my life.

My role models include Tanya Huff, Joss Whedon, Christopher Golden and Charles de Lint amongst many, many others.

I love to read, write and watch genre TV. I’m very lucky that people actually pay me to do one of these three things. My Blood Lines series is published by Juno Books, an imprint of Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.

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It’s not about winning or losing, it’s how you play the game
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

John Scalzi wrote an awesome post entitled: Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is.

I highly recommend you read it – including the 800 comments.

Scalzi’s post struck a strong chord in me (who, according to his game metaphor got the hardcore setting, thanks to being female, Latina, queer).

I find it fascinating and not a little disheartening to see the same old “stop blaming me”, “what am I supposed to do about it” comments from so many straight white males. As an adjunct to that, a lot of “but my life was anything but easy because …

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