When I decided to try for a slot in the Writers on the Moon project, I knew which book I’d choose to send to the moon: Disobedience Means Death, the first book in the Rymellan Series. Because it’s my only science fiction work set somewhere other than Earth, it was the natural choice. 

The current tagline on my website is, “Where Lesbians are the Heroes.” All my stories have at least one lesbian main character, and the Rymellan Series is no exception. It starts out having two main characters (Lesley and Mo) and then gains a third. I won’t name her because it would be a huge spoiler for anyone who hasn’t read the series.

When you read the blurb, you might think the book is about homophobia, but it isn’t. There’s no homophobia in Rymellan society. The focus is on how the rules of a totalitarian society affect the lives of a young couple in love. They could have been a heterosexual couple, but it’s important that lesbians be the heroes in stories, too.

In love since their teens, but the state will decide who they marry. Will they risk death to stay together?

Lesley and Mo live in a society that selects mates for its citizens and kills those who don’t accept its choices. Deeply in love, the two women can’t imagine being with anyone else, but their time together is running out. If they don’t let each other go, they’ll be executed.

Meet Lesley and Mo when they’re young adults in love, and follow their joys and struggles until it’s time for them to say good-bye. Will they do what their society expects of them, or will they sacrifice their lives for their love?

Other Books

I also included the following books in my payload:

Shattered Lives (Rymellan 2)
The Triad (Rymellan 3)
The Salbine Sisters – a book about an order of religious lesbian mages.
The Atheist (Deiform Fellowship One) – a series about a lesbian atheist who works for a powerful religious organization (some have dubbed it God’s CIA)
Threaded Through Time (Book One) – a book about two time-crossed couples, one lesbian and one heterosexual
Threaded Through Time (Book Two)
The Missing Comatose Woman – a book about a rookie lesbian PI who works on her first case (you can probably guess from the title what the case involves)