Casca Kelly Green
ABOUT ME
Casca Kelly Green is a bisexual, neuroatypical, secular Buddhist writer living in the United States. When not writing, Casca teaches piano, works as an English and Latin tutor, and studies to be a disability advocacy lawyer. Casca lives with a rabbit, a cat, and too many houseplants. Casca likes fuzzy blankets and dislikes tea.
Shadeshifter Chronicles
Other Novels
The Shadeshifter Chronicles follows a wide variety of characters. It intends to feel like the Marvel and DC universes, in that it has Loads and Loads of characters (yes, I do read TVTropes), and it should feel like it was developed over almost a hundred years. I intend to turn this into a full-blown series, with novels released in-between each novel due to my fast-paced schedule.
Officially, all I have out to be released is Posthuman (check the Books page to see details on that) but unofficially--meaning these novels may not make it to publication, but I feel comfortable enough in their state towards completion to announce they're being worked on--I have a horror novel in the works and a prequel to Superdome, focusing on the Fates.
Frequently Asked Questions
You're not popular enough to have frequently asked questions yet, are you?
Shutup. I can be if I want to. (These are more pre-emptive.)
Why do you not refer to yourself as male or female?
I'm agender. I was assigned female at birth, but I just feel uncomfortable with both the "female" and "male" labels. This is why I have been very careful to neuter this site, and all references to myself, of either gender. Offline, in my day-to-day life, I am regularly read as female, and I tolerate female pronouns in the name of making life simpler around people who interact with me face-to-face, but in truth I feel no affiliation with femininity, nor any other gender.
I noticed Superdome focuses largely on female and intersex characters who represent a large portion of MOGAI, but are you ever going to focus on male and transgender characters?
I am going to feature characters with these identities, in subsequent books! Admittedly a majority of male characters in Superdome are straight - even if it could be argued that Mind Melter in particular falls somewhere on the asexual and aromantic spectrum, in context - and admittedly there aren't a lot of characters who could be overtly read as transgender, because Dome society doesn't go as far out of its way as modern society does, to make gender identity and performance a source of grief for individuals.
The truth is, literature featuring transgender characters, when put in a futuristic speculative fiction setting, inevitably becomes a complicated issue: either I as an author have to "show and not tell," probably via in-narrative discrimination, that a character is transgender... or I risk falling into the "Dumbledore was gay" trap of merely stating an "unproven" headcanon I have about a character, while completely failing to make that character relatable to people who have a marginalized identity in common with them.
With my first ever novel, Superdome, I was still a newbie to this whole publication thing, and I did not want to risk handling these identities indelicately, especially since I myself am agender and therefore a stand-in and spokesperson for the non-binary community, from the reader's perspective. In this sense, think of Superdome as a practice run at good representation: rather than hitting every possible base in representation, I focused on adequately hitting several bases that could be "proven" by context, without requiring the use of in-narrative discrimination. You can definitely expect, however, that you will see more forms of representation in my future novels!