From everything I've seen about Gretchen Felker-Martin, that author's literary career seems to be based on three things:
Being trans
Being a psycho
Really doubling down on that second one, in a keyboard warrior sense
Felker-Martin recently lost a comics writing gig at DC over some witless and, yes, psycho tweets about the murder of Charlie Kirk. Apparently you can only bluff your way so far with a pair of twos.
The incident made me think of someone else from the horror-fantasy field: Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Salmonson has been writing since Nixon was still in the White House. She also happens to be trans. But her much more low-key reputation is based on things like "finding a good story" and "writing well." Antediluvian stuff.
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As you'll very likely guess I had no prior knowledge of 'Gretchen'. Jer told me that the comicbook Red Hood series had been cancelled by DC after that particular tweet. Apparently, making offensive tweets was a frequent occurrance for him but DC had been looking the other way for a long time. Then they were surprised. hmmmm..
I'm not sure why so many of these people have three names but it does appear to be common in the trans community.
Nevertheless, it sounds like Jessica has maintained a discrete attitude as regards his trans status. I don't know when he made his personal circumstances public but when Nixon was in office most guys with the proclivity for cross dressing were keeping a low profile.
Not so much nowadays - today we saw a heavyset man with purple hair wearing a skirt and pushing a baby carriage. You do have to wonder how that's going to work out in the long term.
Btw: good title Untitled - German I see..
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