February 2012
26 posts
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“I’ve had librarians say to me, “People in my school don’t agree with...”
– David Levithan - Supporting Gay Teen Literature (via cake-light)
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lbschool:
Congratulations Everyone!
metteivieharrison: Writing Wednesday:... →
metteivieharrison:
At LTUE last week, I was on a panel about what mistakes we had made as authors (and one illustrator) and what we would do better if we could do it again. I thought it was a good idea for a panel, though it left things pretty loose. I talked a bit about editors and agents. Then an audience member…
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Tumbled Chikin: On Being Thin Skinned →
thunderchikin:
My next book, Invisible Sun, is due out in a couple of months, which means that reviews are starting to filter in. Reviews come from two primary sources these days, print journals and review blogs. Print journals have been around forever. Blog reviews are a very recent phenomenon. When Soul…
Con or Bust: Signed copy of HUNTRESS + handmade... →
Con or Bust is an auction that raises money to bring fans of color/non-white fans to science fiction conventions, including WisCon (which I will be attending this year!). I’ve donated a signed hardcover of Huntress, along with a hand-made print version of “The Fox.” Get all the details at the Con or Bust LJ. (Bidding starts at $25.)
Real Men and Pink Suits →
Words have power. And power recklessly exerted has consequences. It’s not about being politically correct. It’s about being sensitive to the plight of those being singled out. We can’t ask the people taking the punches to also take the jokes.
And it’s about understanding that masculinity is wide enough and deep enough for all of us to fit in it. But society in general, and male culture in...
“To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see...”
– Twelve Things You Were Not Taught In School About Creative Thinking (Psychology Today, via YA Highway)
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'Miseducation': A Cowgirl Coming-Out Story For... →
Last month I read an awesome novel that I was asked to review for NPR. This is the review.
On kerfuffles and gay romance and giveaways →
Last year, there was an outcry over a YA anthology that was prohibiting same-sex stories. There were a LOT of posts about it on the internet. There were a lot of authors who got up in arms and dropped out of not only that anthology, but an anthology being edited by the same editor, an anthology that I was writing for.
In the end, what ended up happening was that the anthology lost half its line...
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Jack Halberstam: Queers Create Better Models of... →
Butch has been a great term for me, when I encountered it, it seemed like I finally had a word for what it was that I experienced as embodiment, so I really clung to it. I’m somebody who has seen several waves of transgender activism since I came out, but I still hold onto it, I recognize that it may in fact be descriptive of people of my generation and be less descriptive of younger folks, and...
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January 2012 in Review →
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January 2012
41 posts
Writing about lesbians when you’re not a lesbian →
“I am writing a short story about a lesbian main character … and almost had it finished when I had a panic attack. I was at a conference talking about my story when a lesbian told me she would never take it seriously because I wasn’t a lesbian and I can’t know what that feels like. But to me that love is love and normal and just like love between anyone else except for that one guy back home and...
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Gender bias at NPR — and what it reveals about the... →
The truth is that major publishers put out more books written by men than women. Print publications write more about books written by men. NPR discusses more books written by men. Unsurprisingly, the best seller list is dominated by books written by men: men outnumbered women 25 to 11 on last year’s number-one-best-seller fiction charts. And to be honest, I’m not innocent of...
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The Lesbian Question →
A question from a reader:
“Setting aside the tangled web of labels of low, dark, high, heroic, etc. fantasy (or speculative fiction) — do you consider yourself to write ‘lesbian’ books, or books that happen to be about lesbians?”
Mr. Sexsmith: Call for Submissions: Heiress of... →
mrsexsmith:
Heiresses of Russ, the new annual anthology series created in honor of the late writer, academic, and feminist Joanna Russ, is now taking recommendations for the 2012 edition. We’re looking for lesbian-themed speculative fiction first published in 2011. The 2011 edition, co-edited by Joselle Vanderhooft, is available now, including work by Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Rachel...
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(My) Top 10 Sources of Inspiration →
The one question that every creative professional (writer, artist, musician, whatever) gets asked is: Where do you get your inspiration? Well, today I’ve decided to share with the world my top 10 sources of inspiration!
“Masculinity, femininity, genderqueerness, or any sort of gender presentation is...”
– Femme Invisibility and Beyond (Sugarbutch Chronicles)
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Holly Black's Tumblr: Clarion Application Period... →
hollyblack:
The application period for the 2012 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop at UC San Diego officially opened on December 1, and will remain open until March 1. If you’ve been thinking about applying, start tapping on those keys now. They’ve got an awesome faculty set up…
I wish I had known about this workshop years ago! Sounds like such an awesome...
The Three Hoodies of Rachel Maddow →
This is the kind of in-depth TV analysis I love. :)
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