Ep. 56 - What If the World Was Already Queer? Fantasy, Storytelling & Creative Freedom with C.H. Carter

★WHERE YOU CAN FIND C.H. CARTER★ Website - chcarterwrites.com Instagram - @chcarterwrites BlueSky - @chcarterwrites ★WHERE YOU CAN FIND US★ Website - www.queerolina.org Facebook - Queerolina Instagram - @queerolinaorg BlueSky - queerolinaorg.bsky.social ★Summary★ In this conversation, C.H. Carter — fantasy author and creator of the Kingsport  Chronicles — sits down with the Queer Vision to talk about building a queer normative  world from the ground up. C.H. spent nearly six years completing her debut trilogy, a  Little Mermaid retelling where queerness simply exists without explanation or  apology. We talk about indie vs traditional publishing, creative discipline, the Save  the Cat outlining method, and why your first draft is always going to be messy and  that's exactly the point. The conversation also touches on hidden queer history, the  spiritualism movement of the 1890s, and C.H.'s upcoming historical fantasy about a  demon-run hotel in upstate New York. ★Keywords★ fantasy writing, indie publishing, queer books, queer normative world, Little Mermaid  retelling, creative process, Save the Cat, historical fantasy, North Carolina, LGBTQ  authors, storytelling, debut author