EMMA NICHOLS

Hi, I’m Emma. I’m a lesbian! No, I’m a woman who loves women! No, I’m a human being who loves my fellow man, woman, non-binary, transgender, pan… Last week, I got into a conversation with some writer colleagues about the marketing of an event we are putting on for readers of lesbian fiction. The issue of ensuring inclusively across the diverse range of gender and sexual orientation categories came up and generated unresolved debate. Marketing is more effective when focused. B

I don’t know if you ever did this as a child, my children look forward, they plot what it might be like to be thirteen with excitement and wishing they were there already. I remember being a twenty-five-year-old and chatting to mum who had just turned fifty. Not plotting and wishing I was a middle-aged woman, who the hell looks forward to that! More that, just the thought of the year 2020 filled us with horror because I would be fifty-six and she would be seventy-nine. It was