One of my early influences as a baby lesbian fiction reader was Shiela Ortiz Taylor. I still have my first edition Naiad Press copy of Faultline. It has a favorite opening line of
“I realize that my three hundred rabbits are the most serious piece of material evidence against me.”
Faultline was one of the first novels featuring lesbian characters that I ever read. It remains one of the funniest, and proved to me that it ws okay to laugh about ourselves. But what really changed me was a couple of pages inside: a large photograph of the author, with her real name.
It was the first time I’d ever seen such a thing. Read More
