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Recent content by T. Alan Horne

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    Autistic Author

    Yes. I'm much better than I was as a child or teen. But social cues are still not intuitive to me.
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    Autistic Author

    I can't tell you much without spoiling the entire book, but one of the things that has surprised me is how my early readers responded so positively to the way the characters were fleshed out in this book. My editor and mentor, David Farland, said that this was the first time a novel had managed...
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    Autistic Author

    One thing to keep in mind about detective stories is that a lot of characters are autism "coded" without actually being declared as autistic. This gives publishers enough plausible deniability that they can write off the fact that these characters are competent and heroic. I feel like Advent 9...
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    Autistic Author

    Thank you.
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    Autistic Author

    One editor told me that autistic people are in need of being rescued, and it’s unrealistic to have an autistic character who rescues non-autistic people. I’ve wondered about that, since I am familiar with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. But as I thought about it, I realized...
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    Autistic Author

    It's a Kickstarter page. It's an all-or-nothing crowdfunding pledge effort to gauge public interest in a project. The artwork was done by Carly Milligan and Paul Pederson. They have been very good partners. This is a self-publishing effort. When I tried to publish Advent 9 traditionally, I was...
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    Autistic Author

    Thank you.
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    Autistic Author

    A few that never made it to publication. I am writing a new book now, set on a distant planet during the universe's early eons, when everything in the cosmos was still close together, intergalactic travel was much easier, and the sky was so thick with lights you couldn't see the darkness behind...
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    Autistic Author

    Hello, I'm T. Alan Horne. I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at age 14. Around that same time, I started dreaming about becoming a fiction author. I wrote several books before it occurred to me I should try one with an autistic main character. I'd seen autism portrayed in various media...
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