C.J. Hendrix

Welcome! I’m an LGBTQ fiction writer and artist, and a tinkerer who loves to fix stuff that’s broken. Because there’s nothing more rewarding than making something work that you thought was a lost cause. Except maybe the completion of something you’ve written that you thought was a lost cause. Especially since writing itself typically isn’t that rewarding, because most of the time all you get are sleep-deprived nights and weeks of no progress. But for some reason, I have a compulsion to do it anyway and when I need a break at 1:00 AM, I pick up a pen or pencil and draw.

When hunting for stuff to fix, I enjoy digging up treasures at junk shops and inventing stories about their lost owners. My recently published novel, Like a Prayer, was inspired by two such finds—a moonstone pendant and an unusual piece of alabaster. Like a Prayer is a contemporary young adult/new adult LGBTQ love story, written with a touch of magical realism, that journeys through the heartbreak of family dysfunction and violent loss. It’s also a story of survivorship and hope, and how redemption can arrive in unexpected ways.