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The title for this one just wasn’t coming together for me. I ended up asking my beta readers and they all independently gave the same answer: The Lilac People. It made sense since the book is ultimately about a given community and its resilience in the face of hardship. However, a reader may not know what The Lilac People specifically means as a title before they read the book since it’s specific to a time, place, and identity currently unknown by most modern people.
What's in a name?
My three main male characters—Bertie, Karl, and Gert—were named after three of the only known documented trans masculine/intersex individuals to have survived Nazi Germany. Their lives/storylines...[read on]
Q&A with Milo Todd.
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