Long before it became Storygate, the Fort Defiance Gate Way was part of my childhood playground. Decades later, a librarian named Solveig led me back to the place where stories first felt protected—and transformed the ending of Prose & Cons into a refuge for banned books and forgotten stories.

Prose & Cons is, at its heart, a tribute to the stewards of stories—the writers, librarians, readers, archivists, teachers, and everyone else who believes stories are worth protecting.

Lucy Sinclair, character from Prose & Cons by E. E. Lawson. Art by @bond.sash There is a particular kind of irony in writing a novel about an author being manipulated by algorithms, artificial intelligence, and the Devil–and then attempting to market that novel on the internet. I'm beginning to think Prose & Cons may be conducting its own publicity campaign. Let me explain. When I published my first novel, I discovered a very strange corner of the internet. Authors probably k

I spent years expressing myself through writing while struggling to speak spontaneously out loud. This is the story of how that happened—and why I’m learning to reclaim my voice.