D.A Charles
This week I spoke to D.A.Charles, known as Dee. Dee’s book series has been published courtesy of Stories About Us, a very special project initiated to bring diverse voices to entertainment by Michaels.Adams. Dee says that Jd Michaels and Alec Frazier are a wonderful team to work with. The Storiesaboutus team publish books by disabled and deaf authors, concentrating on getting their art out there. To find out more about Stories About Us go to http://www.storiesaboutus.org/
To find out more about Dee and how she’s managing to be an essential worker, in these troubled times, managing her family and juggling writing go to, https://www.elizabethnharris.net/post/d-a-charles
So Dee, how wonderful to meet you, tell me a little about yourself!
Hi Elizabeth! I’m Dee. I was raised by a parent with a disability, have worked in Home and Community-Based Care providing direct care for members of the Disability Population my entire adult life. I began writing fictional stories featuring disabled main characters to help raise awareness, and contribute to the disability narrative in entertainment. My writing cave is nestled in the forests of Central Pennsylvania, where I also enjoy gardening, playing with my four-legged grey tailed dogs, and occasionally make time to scrapbook or craft a stained glass treasure. Alec Frazier is a fellow author, who directs his own Disability Advocacy Firm — Autistic Reality, and is a published pop culture critic. I’m lucky to count him a friend.
What got you into writing?
Reading! My mother! I don’t remember a time where I wasn’t enraptured by a good book. With reading came storytelling, and by junior high school, I was putting those stories to paper. My high school language arts teacher was undoubtedly my greatest supporter, to the point of editing my short stories during study hall periods and encouraging me to submit them for publication. Incidentally, after more than thirty years, she fell back into my life as I was on the cusp of releasing Shattered. Serendipity.
