LITERATURE

Being named a Featured Artist of the 2024 San Diego Pride Festival, the only writer so recognized, was one of the most wonderful honors I have ever received.

Twelve Nights with Viola & Olivia, and More is the first novel to depict queer people, and an intersexed person, as far back as the early 1500s. To emphasize how much queer literature was suppressed until just 50 years ago, I wrote under the identity of a lesbian English aristocrat, like Vita Sackville-West, Lady Nicholson (1892-1962), writing in the 1930s, when Britain and the U.S. automatically celebrating homosexual characters.

Based on Shakespeare’s classic play Twelfth Night, and three screenplays written for the proposed limited drama series The New Countess, Twelve Nights with Viola & Olivia, and More shows that the love of Countess Olivia for young and very female Viola is best explained when Olivia is accepted as a lesbian woman.

However, Twelve Nights with Viola & Olivia, and More, covers many other events during five days of Olivia’s life, confronting challenges as varied as persuading the Church to tell Viola and Sebastian’s family that they are alive and well, and dealing with Orsino when his young nephew beats up her intersexed messenger Adriano without justification. Meanwhile, Olivia must decide whether she will stay married to the brother of the girl she loves, or annul her marriage.

Twelve Nights with Viola & Olivia, and More is available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon. Only $9.99 in paperback, or $2.99 on Kindle. (289 pages)

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