Adversity & Audacity - SF& F from Cancer Survivors

Let's talk about Adversity! I think we can all agree: Cancer Sucks! Cancer survivors endure months of hospital stays, brain fog, exhaustion, fatigue, nausea, and more. Treatments that include years of chemo, surgeries, radiation, transplants, just to name a few. Side effects from all of these can lead to sepsis, cataracts, cognitive deficit, and repeatedly almost dying. Let's talk about Audacity! How do you face a devastating illness like cancer? You need to be audacious. If you're a writer, that means you write! You refuse to let the cancer steal your art, your gift, your ability to invent whole worlds and populate those worlds with compelling characters. When your body is struggling, your mind befuddled, by pain and disease and chemo that takes and takes and takes, you remember that you have the power to bring into creation a thing that has never existed, a new story, and that you get to share it with the world. It's not an easy thing to do, not by any means or measure, but if it was then it wouldn't be audacious. It's also something that more people need to see. When writers are faced with Adversity they can respond with Audacity. All the work in this anthology has been written by cancer survivors after their diagnoses. Award winning authors, legends in their field, refusing to surrender to disease, choosing to be audacious, to write, to create, and by their actions to inspire!