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3 | Mark Oshiro is an American writer and blogger. Oshiro is most known for their blog ''Blog/MarkDoesStuff'', where they review books and TV shows. Oshiro is also an author of {{young adult|Literature}} and {{middle grade|Literature}} novels. |
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5 | Oshiro is queer and non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. |
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7 | A more complete list of their published work can be found on their website [[https://www.markoshiro.com/about here]]. |
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9 | !!Blogs |
10 | * ''Blog/MarkReadsTwilight'' (2009) |
11 | * ''Blog/MarkReadsHarryPotter'' (2010) |
12 | * ''Blog/MarkDoesStuff'' (2010–2021) |
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14 | !!Books |
15 | * ''Literature/AngerIsAGift'' (2018) |
16 | * ''Each of Us a Desert'' (2020) |
17 | * ''The Insiders'' (2021) |
18 | * ''You Only Live Once, David Bravo'' (2022) |
19 | * ''Star Wars Hunters: Battle for the Arena'' (2023) |
20 | * ''Into the Light'' (2023) |
21 | * ''Literature/TheSunAndTheStarANicoDiAngeloAdventure'' (2023): A ''[[Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries Camp Half-Blood]]'' book co-written with Creator/RickRiordan (2023) |
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23 | !!Short fiction |
24 | * "Hunger", ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfViewTheEmpireStrikesBack'' (2020) |
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26 | !!Tropes present in their works include: |
27 | * AfterTheEnd: ''Each of Us a Desert'' is set long after some unspecified disaster, long enough that it's passed into myth. |
28 | * AuthorAppeal: Recurring themes are queer children, fantasy as a metaphor for coming of age, plot twists, and racism. |
29 | * ComingOfAgeQueerRomance: Nearly all their stories with romance are about queer children or teenagers, since they didn't have enough representation of this growing up. |
30 | * ExtraordinaryWorldOrdinaryProblems: The fantasy of their middle grade novels is often there to enable the ComingOfAgeStory. ''The Insiders'' has a magical room that connects to two others but focuses on the friendships and formed from that, and ''You Only Live Once, David Bravo'' is a time travel story about learning to accept one's mistakes. |
31 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: Xochital of ''Each of Us A Desert'' takes up people's stories so that their feelings won't attract monsters. Xo hates it because she's forced to carry the burden of a whole town's sins. [[spoiler:And it's later revealed that they never needed to give up their stories anyway.]] |
32 | * StarCrossedLovers: Xochital, a story keeper in a small town, and Emilia, the daughter of the town's murderous mayor in ''Each of Us A Desert''. They start on opposite sides, but find they have more in common than they think. |
33 | * SympatheticPOV: The wampa in "Hunger". He went out on a hunting trip, then came back to find the rebel base where his family used to be. His lashing out at Luke isn't just hunger, it's rage and grief. |
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