Akemi is the author of The Brill Pill, a few unpublished novels, and a smattering of unrecorded song lyrics. Her work is character-driven and genre-fluid because this gives her thoughts more space to wander.
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‘I’m not a drug salesman. I’m a writer.’
‘What makes you think a writer isn’t a drug salesman?’
—Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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Oh! Write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.
—Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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I’m at a crossroads right now, where I could go live my life the way I think I probably should – be successful and safe, and probably very happy. Or I could risk all of that for this tiny glimmer of a feeling inside that… I just can’t shake.
—Elena Gilbert, The Vampire Diaries