Bronte-Marie Wesson

But I think all of my friends are like delightful fantasy fans and we get together and we play D&D.

So inherently that kind of leaks into the storytelling because I've had such great moments with them.

A weird is an interesting one because I wanted to do the fabled hero trope.

I would be tired too if I was the fabled hero.

Everyone expects you to save them.

You have to climb up a tree for every lost cat.

Like, in a whole country?

Are you kidding me?

He's the fabled hero who failed and now has to, instead of going back to his forest...

as would be the way in previous lifespans.

This is not a spoiler.

In previous lifespans, he saves the world and he goes back to his forest and he gets to reset and he comes back around when they need him again.

He's now like in his 40s or 50s.

He's like, why am I here?

Why do my hips hurt?

Why am I tired all the time?

Functionally, this was the first, well, it isn't the first book I've ever written.

There were a couple before this, but this is one of the first that got finished.

So this is like my earliest attempts at queer representation, and I always knew that it was just the way that I wrote books, that all the characters were going to be queer, and you were just maybe not going to be informed of that fact because it's not really relevant to the story.

Is there a straight character in this book?