callie thomason french
meet the author
Callie is a New Mexican writer, who loves to tell stories that go beyond the usual clichés. Yes, she thinks Breaking Bad is awesome, but insists there's a lot more to New Mexico than just TV's blue meth. On the same point, there is more to queer life than just coming out.
Her writing digs into gender roles, explores queerness, and aims to uncover the deeper truths of life, especially those that makes us realize we are all more alike than we think. When she’s not writing, you can find Callie hiking, playing roller derby, or hanging out with her hoard of animals. 
Current projects
Paulo Coehlo once said, "The desert is so huge, and the horizon so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent." In this silence, Callie finds stories, finds truths, that she wants to share with the world. Scroll to see some of Callie's projects. a functional obsession
When a young boy vanishes from the banks of the Rio Grande, the last person anyone imagines holding the key to the mystery is the small-town Sheriff’s office administrator. Yet, when her latest crime subscription box arrives with clues seemingly linked to the disappearance, Maeve Allen takes the investigation into her own hands and realizes she can’t trust anyone around her. Maeve’s interest in true crime is what some might call weird or obsessive or inappropriate dinner conversation, but, to her credit, it’s also not particularly useful. Not even as the administrator for the local sheriff's department. Her small New Mexico town’s most eventful crime included a fire truck, a maleta, and a local man on a lot of LSD. Until a fire, a robbery, and a child abduction rock the town in one weekend. When a gorgeous, queer FBI agent enlists Maeve’s help to search for the missing boy, she’s convinced she has the clues to solve the crime. But when her own nephew goes missing, she takes the investigation into her own hands, and everyone is a suspect-- including her new love interest.Status: Available for representationLength: 98,000 words Genre: Commercial Fiction, True Crime, Crime Fiction, LGBTa relatively small tragedy
Lo Schulman-Manning survived a pandemic that killed 35 million people and was sure the worst was behind her. She was vaccinated, healthy, and getting married to the woman of her dreams. Things are definitely going well for her. Until her estranged parents show up, unannounced, the week of her wedding. Complicating things even more, not only weren't they invited, they didn't even know she was engaged.Lo is sure things can't get worse, until she learns that her mother, a virologist-turned-off-the-grid-hippie, likely survived the pandemic because she's the one who released it. Worse still, Lo suspects her mother is working on something new. Lo needs to prove her mother’s guilt before she unleashes another deadly plague… ideally before the wedding she's already paid for in full. After all, who wants to rearrange a seating chart the week of a wedding?Status: Available for representationLength: 75,000 words Genre: Commercial Fiction, LGBTQ, Dark HumorA family seeking freedom from a disease relies on forgetfulness, not forgiveness, to navigate life after father, and daughter, are diagnosed with Early Onset Familial Alzheimer’s Disease.
This multi-narrator account of a family grappling with a diagnosis that will change everything asks the question: what would you do if you knew the people around you would forget your indiscretions anyway? Told in reverse to make you hate the characters, then love them, and eventually understand them, this novel grapples with the morality or memory.Status: Currently ShelvedLength: 85,000 words Genre: Commercial Fiction, LGBTQif they forget
Contact Callie.
Callie is actively seeking representation.
calliethomasonfrench@gmail.com