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Welcome to my world. I am a cis-gender, panromantic, demi/asexual woman who long ago decided that traditional Romance was too confining. It didn't ever feature people like me or like close friends and loved ones. When most of the world ignores your existence, you start to wonder if there's any hope of love in that world.
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So I set out to create those representations I felt so lacking in an entire genre. And now, after decades of being shoved into spaces where I neither belonged nor wanted to be, forced to conform to a genre and industry that was afraid to allow the representations I wanted to show, I'm finally getting to do things my own way.
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​As for my writing itself, a lot of people ask me what it's like to be a writer, or how I come up with ideas.
A writer's style, like his or her subject, is totally a matter of personality and experience. Some are gifted with blessed lives, which allow them to envision Happily Ever After not as a distant dream, but as a daily reality. Others, like myself, see the world through a realist's eyes. We've experienced pain and loss intensely, and yet we still have the heart to dream.
As for how I come up with ideas... I was both blessed and cursed to have been given a vast range of experiences to draw from. I've learned to embrace the darkness within, and to craft from it a light made brighter by the darkness in which it was born.
They say to know a writer, you must first know his or her work. I don't know about everyone, but this is certainly the case for me. So, I welcome you to take a peek into all the things that make me. Take a walk into my most terrifying nightmares, and my deepest dreams. Walk with me as I reveal what makes a woman a slave to her fears, and what elevates her to greatness. Join me as I show you what makes a hero truly heroic... The answer might just surprise you.
Yours,
Esther Mitchell
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