Em | okapijones
Reylo, Writer, and Rat 🐁
Hi! I'm Em.30-whatever || she/her || infp || aries || golden retriever disguised as a black catI write stuff both online and off, fandom and original. If you've stumbled here, great! Hopefully it means you liked whatever you saw.Mostly I'm here on the internet for Adam Driver and Star Wars-related reasons.I'm also actually several possums in a trenchcoat and about as feral.I have a day job in academia and I moonlight as an author. Current works in progress include: a female-centered epic fantasy series about witches (several books, working on all of them at the same time because I'm nuts) and some shorter (by which I mean...still unreasonably long) Reylo pieces I've thrown up on AO3.Everything I write has copious amounts of humor, but I am broody and was pretentious enough at one point in my mid-20s to seriously think getting a doctorate in French literature was a good idea - and then actually pursued it. (I stopped at an MA.)
FAQ
What is your policy on fic binding?I love fanfic bookbinding! If I had more time, I'd pursue it myself - I'm a noted bibliophile and went and got two degrees in literature (and almost got a master's in library science so I could go into archival work/antiquarian text preservation). I'm happy to permit binding my fics for personal use or gifting - though I would generally prefer to be asked first, if only because I love watching the process and would like to see the end results.That being said, if you sell versions of my bound fics - absolutely not. This is my work, and it's illegal to profit off of fanfiction. You could put me in serious legal jeopardy by selling bound copies of my fics. It's several levels of unethical. But if you're asking, then you already know that. 💗I'll also literally never say no if you want to send me one.What program do you use to write?I draft exclusively in Scrivener. It's ruined me for anything else, and most of my stuff is so long that I need the flexibility of it to move scenes around. If you can't tell, I'm not much of a one-shot or short-story person. I'm almost exclusively a long-form writer and need a robust program that supports that.Are you a published author?Welllllll... 👀What's your original fiction about?...you should probably just click the link in the answer above to find out.What are your degrees in?
I have a BA in French Literature and an MA in French Literature, both from American public ivy universities. I'm fully fluent in French (which I only started learning at 18), and I've lived and worked in France before. I'd love to live there again full-time someday.
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