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Queer Love

Posted on Feb 6, 2012 in Blog, Gender, LGBTQ, Literature, Sexuality | 0 comments

For the week leading up to February 14th, I'll be posting a daily queer love poem on my blog. To celebrate our queer history let's remember that you can never guarantee how time will memorialize you, nor how our current lovers and friends see us compared to how we see ourselves. Let's celebrate that love and pain are inextricably linked, and that when we invite one into our lives, we help ourselves survive the other.

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Transparency and the Art of Self-Publishing

Posted on Jan 27, 2012 in Blog, LGBTQ, Literature, Publishing, Writing | 1 comment

As a self published author, there are a lot of things I don’t have.  I don’t have a large staff, fully employed to make my book look as perfect as possible.  I don’t have a publicist, sending my book to reviewers months before the publication date.  I don’t have the reputation of a large publisher to lean on, to speak on my behalf to booksellers and readers. I have me. This lack of support means I could easily cloister myself, furtively hiding my process to avoid the stigma of...

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In Praise of Kick Ass Heroines: Haywire and the Believable Ass-Kicking Woman

Posted on Jan 23, 2012 in Blog, Feminism, Gender, Reviews | 4 comments

How to create a credible heroine, in three easy steps: 1) Give her muscles. 2) Give her a combat background. 3) Give her sensible shoes. Tonight, my sweetie and I saw Haywire. I knew I’d like it, because I have a soft spot for female vigilantes, but I wasn’t aware of how deliciously insidious the film would be. On the way home, my sweetie asked how I could reconcile my feminism with loving a character that needed to ascribe to male ideals of power in order to be considered...

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Mini News Flash – Ebook Edition Error

Posted on Jan 18, 2012 in Blog, News | 0 comments

Hey friends! An eagle eyed reader just alerted me to a big formatting error in the ebook of Lunatic Fringe. If you downloaded the ebook before today and want a clean copy, email me at moon(at!)talesofthepack.com and I’ll send it off to you asap. Sorry for the problems and thanks for the communication! xox ~Allison

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Indie Author Road Trip! [VIDEO] Days 1 – 4

Posted on Jan 4, 2012 in Blog, Literature, Publishing, Writing | 0 comments

Those of you who follow my twitter feed may have noticed that I’m on the road right now.  My partner and I are driving cross country from Charlotte, NC back home to Oakland, CA, and we’ve been recording video along the way.  Here are the first 5 days of video.  We tried to add helpful stuff like relationship advice, sex tips and self-publishing know-how.  Though, to be frank, there’s also a lot of goofing...

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Last Night an Ebook Saved My Life

Posted on Dec 28, 2011 in Blog, Literature, Publishing, Writing | 0 comments

I’m a convert.  I suspected I would be.  I was ardently anti-ebook for a while- not for others, only for myself. I couldn’t imagine reading a book without the smell, the feel, the design. In creating my own book, I became even more entrenched in the importance of design aspects of books.  The font, chapter layout, page scheme- these things matter. I knew I’d have to get my own ereader soon, however.  I was, after all, invested in making my books available as ebooks and saw how ebooks...

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