INFLUENCER BO B💋TCH (Lesbian)

AFTERWORDS

Dear sapphics!

Another one of my books is finished. With a heavy heart, I must admit that my assumptions about the state of relationships between sapphic authors and sapphic readers are much worse than I thought. This small lesbian novelette turned out to be more of a little experiment rather than a fully thought-out book for adult girls like Fairytales for a Human, Marble & Salt, or my debut Avis in Between. This story has rather become a little cautionary tale where everyone could encounter their own personal trigger or find the philosophical idea that was used with an ironic undertone rather than a direct call to action.

It comes as no surprise to me once again that in our modern days, where feminism and women's solidarity have become commonplace for most cultures, the overwhelming majority of young women readers still prefer to silently read lesbian novels, even though giving a like takes less than a second. But if, Goddess forbid, they don't like something in the text, their nimble fingers quickly type something demotivating for the authors who work for free so that women (especially from homophobic cultures and toxic families) have the opportunity to receive at least a little bit of rainbow warmth.

I intentionally presented simple characters in the text, each embodying specific functions to more vividly illustrate certain ideas that acted as my characters: Ava – a talented but unlucky girl from a single-parent family with work problems and resentment towards her father; Bo – a famous and beautiful woman who experienced poverty and racism in her childhood but, thanks to her close-knit family and hard work, achieved worldwide fame; Libbie – a girl from a wealthy family whose mother divorced her dull and weak-willed father and moved to another country, while Libbie, believing that money only brings evil and no family happiness, decided to achieve everything on her own starting from the bottom.

A special place in the story is occupied by Ava's mother. At the beginning of the story, I didn't know how to approach her character, but then I realized that Ava needed an understanding and supportive mother. It's easy to write about horrific homophobic parents to get some hype for the story, where women readers, who are already deeply closeted and moth-eaten, immediately resonate with these characters, recognizing their own parents or other relatives. Making a reader cry is easier than making them laugh or feel a gentle warmth from a book. So I thought that Ava's mother, for the sake of all those in the closet, should be supportive and kind — the kind of mother you don't want to run away from to another country as soon as you are eighteen.

Undoubtedly, the book was conceived as a bit of a cliché. Straight authors have been churning out such stories for many, many years, and I wanted to step away from originality, as in my earlier books, and have some fun with a classic melodramatic plot: rich girl vs. poor girl, fame vs. true family values, natural beauty vs. the latest trends in the beauty industry.

I wanted to touch on the generational gap and ironically portray modern women's society, which struggles to support each other. And so it turned out. In the text, among other things, I touched on themes from the real experiences of lesbians —situations that older women have already faced and those naive and inexperienced young girls who have not yet been in relationships and may soon encounter these problems.

There was so much I wanted to convey in this story, but suddenly the novelette stalled, and I couldn't move it forward. The characters seemed to freeze and refused to go through the problems I had planned for them to reach happiness.

Then I realized that I didn't want to write yet another long soap opera with suffering lesbians. I decided to do it like in that realistic meme where lesbian relationships develop quite quickly.

At the same time, I wanted everything to be like in a good old fairy tale (not only straight Cinderellas should get a fairy-tale happy ending).

I've always wanted more stories with two women who get their happy ever after! Not those shameful stories where lesbians constantly fight in TV shows, break up, don't understand each other, leave each other for men, die without finding their happiness, or worst of all, get "re-educated" or "convinced" to become straight again, as in one of the books about the beloved by many and personally despised by me character James Bond (even the author didn't take him seriously!), or in the movie Gigli, or in that silly movie with William Baldwin and Kelly Lynch where the woman ends up choosing the man again 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮.

In conclusion, I would like to thank my loyal readers! You truly embody the image of the modern woman who is not afraid to support other women in their creative endeavors.

I would like to give some advice to women readers — don't be afraid to support another woman with a kind word, a like, or a positive comment. Without readers, there is NO book; a book without readers (no matter what proud authors might tell you) is not a book — it's just unformed fantasies in the author's mind.

The novelette is finished. Whether it's well-written or not, the most important thing is that it has reached its happy ending. Let those who began this story and finished it at least have a good memory of it. The idea that two women should and will be happy together despite everything.

Respectfully,
treepipit

PS. the book might undergo the major editing and changes according to my whim.

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