Look! Barbara Winkes is with us again! This time, she’s celebrating the release of Open Spaces. In fact, she’s giving away a free ebook copy to a lucky reader! Drop a comment in the space below and I’ll draw the winner on Friday, June 30. Good luck! I have seen a few conversations regarding this… Read More In Defense of the “Unrealistic, Overdone” Storyline by Barbara Winkes (plus a FREE ebook!)
PEEPS! I’ve been on the road for the past goddess only knows (several days at least) and have not had a chance to properly fangirl over Wonder Woman. That shall not happen this week, because I AM STILL ON THE ROAD AND THINGS ARE CRAY. But I will say that I was able to record… Read More Fangirl Friday: Fandom Reminders
The roses are abloom, the balloon flowers have opened, the orange day lilies have unfurled, and the veggie plants are poking through the soil. Our bird feeders lure gold finches, cat birds, purple finches, mockingbirds, black-capped chickadees, cardinals, and those pesky ground feeders, the squirrels. The desk in my home-office faces a wide window, so… Read More THIS AND THAT
Lise MacTague, Andi’s co-pilot over at Lez Geek Out!, joins us today. She’s giving away a signed paperback copy of her latest release, Five Moons Rising. Drop a comment in the space below and I’ll do the drawing on Friday, June 23. Good Luck! I’ve been told I write books with butch characters. I suppose… Read More Butch is not a Dirty Word by Lise MacTague (Plus a FREE book!)
I kinda hate Pride. Yeah, there’s the whole corporate takeover of what was once a rallying cry for validity and freedom and respect. And, sure, cis white people are pretty terrible at sharing space with the people of color and trans folk on whose backs our liberation was built. Those issues are pretty big deals.… Read More Corporate Takeovers and Recruiting Children
It would be hard for an American today to imagine what it was like to grow up in Germany after the war. Life was dominated by silence and lies about the past, the Holocaust, the fascist leanings of basically the whole generation before us. Plenty of Nazi criminals were still hidden and flourishing in the… Read More Good Girl Gone Free in Paris by Renate Stendhal
A reader’s perspective on loving where you live. I wasn’t tough enough. Or maybe I wasn’t lesbian enough. Definitely to Californian. But I couldn’t make it in the Pacific Northwest. I tried. Well if pretending to live there for two months is considered living there. Of course choosing the wet season during a year… Read More Tough Enough
