Thea van Diepen

Thank You, Holly Lisle, for Everything

Thea van Diepen — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:19:41 +0000

The news broke today that Holly Lisle, author and teacher, passed on August 27th. I didn’t know her personally, but she is absolutely the reason this site, not to mention my life as it currently is, exists. Back when I was getting ready to start my first year of university, I had enough extra money […]

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Well hello there, it’s nice to see you again 😊

Thea van Diepen — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 17:00:00 +0000

It’s considered bad form to mention in blog posts how long it’s been since you last published a blog post, so please excuse my bad form as I bring attention to the fact that it’s been a long while since I last wrote a blog post. What I’m supposed to do instead is get right […]

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I Wish I Didn’t Have to Think About the Political Implications of My Characters

Thea van Diepen — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 05:10:20 +0000

When I started writing, I didn’t think about how people would react to my characters for simply existing as themselves. This is partially because I was eleven and partially because I wrote characters no-one in my social circle would really object to (except maybe in the case of their gender). To be blunt, I wrote […]

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One Question We Will Never Fully Answer (and That’s a Good Thing)

Thea van Diepen — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000

“Who here has spent time thinking about the question ‘who am I?'” my professor asked the class. Most of us, myself included, raised our hands at once. “Well, I suppose I’m going to get a biased sample because you’re all in this class.” The class was Personality Psychology, and this was in my first or […]

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I Don’t Have to Hate My Breasts to Know I’m Not Cis

Thea van Diepen — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0000

When I was about six or seven, my brothers were roughhousing and took off their shirts in order to more appropriately wrestle. Since I was playing with them, I also went to take off my shirt. One of my older brothers, who was in his teens, protested and said I should keep my shirt on. […]

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Works in the Works (and a call for Alpha/Beta Readers!)

Thea van Diepen — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 06:37:20 +0000

For most of the years since my first book came out, I’ve been somewhat aggressively been focusing on one project at a time. This is mainly because, when I started publishing, I was still in university and it was really only the summers where I could focus on writing and publishing in any meaningful way. […]

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Everything I’ve Written in One Database (Including Free Titles!)

Thea van Diepen — Sun, 02 May 2021 04:31:35 +0000

I’ve been working with Airtable lately, which is a platform where you can really do all kinds of things with, but what I’ve done with it the past few days is put together a database of everything I’ve written that’s available somewhere (whether to buy or read for free). It also features a nice little […]

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Dear Past Self: I Know You’re Scared You’re Gay. You’re Going to Be Okay

Thea van Diepen — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 08:42:14 +0000

Dear past self, I don’t have a specific iteration of you in mind right now, but I imagine early twenties you is who will likely hear this best. So, hi me. You’re gay. This is really hard for you to hear, I know. You started noticing your attraction to girls when you were 14 and […]

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Plunged Ashore is Now Out!

Thea van Diepen — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:00:00 +0000

It’s here! Plunged Ashore is now available for purchase! *happy dance* Here’s all the info: Plunged Ashore

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The Making of Plunged Ashore (aka New Book Out Soon!)

Thea van Diepen — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 12:00:00 +0000

I don’t know about you, but when I dream, I have some places that show up in my dreams over and over. Some are real (or the dream version of real) locations. Others are unique to dreamland. When I was a teenager, I had several dreams where I was in an underwater cavern or grotto […]

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