[image error]This story is for everyone who loved Joe and Alex in Mended with Gold.

Want another story about true love, comics, and wild New Zealand beaches?

In 2017, MLR Press published my first novella – Mended with Gold. It’s about Alex, a photographer with post-traumatic stress disorder, who falls in love with Joe, a sweet, shy comics artist.

Reviewers described Mended with Gold as ‘beautiful’ and ‘moving’ and other words that made my writerly heart brim with joy. But Mended with Gold was pretty sho...