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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Being conscious about gender →
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The Best in Asia and Asian America 2011 →
A trio of Asian American teens singlehandedly — triplehandedly? — flipped the script on stereotypes of females in science, while scoring major wins in the fight against the most insidious of killer diseases. Seventeen-year-old Shree Bose of Fort Worth, TAXwon the $50,000 grand prize in the inaugural Google Science Fair with a project that solves a weakness in current chemotherapies for...
“I dislike the term ‘politically correct’ because I so often hear it used with a...”
– The inimitable Sarah Rees Brennan (word!)
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How Mitt Romney has misinterpreted "America the...
wellesleymag:
“It’s been called a hymn, a prayer—written by a rebel against religious dogma who nearly quit her job when Wellesley insisted that faculty members sign a pledge confirming their Christian beliefs. She was raised poor but educated, by a single mother (her father, who was a minister, died when she was 5), in Falmouth, Mass., which she later described as ‘a friendly little village that...
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Expectations and 2012 →
I’ve been meaning to write a post about my resolutions for 2012, but I keep coming back to the idea of expectations. What do I (and you) expect for the coming year?
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Cassandra Clare: Here we go again — Vote for... →
cassandraclare:
Katniss: I like your corset.
Tessa: And I am sure that your flaming jumpsuit is the very last word in fashion!
Katniss: Boy do I hate being in a love triangle.
Tessa: I can only most heartily agree.
LOL!
I’m teaching a free workshop on writing fantasy...
Attention Northern California teen writers! I am teaching a free (yes, FREE!) two-day writing workshop on writing fantasy and science fiction at the Fairfax Public Library in Fairfax, California, on January 21 and 28 from 3-5 p.m.
This free two-session writing workshop will cover the main elements of writing fantasy and science fiction, from how to create three-dimensional fantasy worlds to...
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