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I Hate Women Who Hate Women (or Henry Miller is just alright with me)

Posted on Aug 23, 2010 in Feminism, Gender, Literature, Sexuality, Writing | 7 comments

Henry Miller's misogyny is the kind of Wall Street honchos who hire pro-doms on the weekends to knowingly give their hubris a wicked and necessary dose of humility. Thus, Miller and his cohorts get a pass from me. Carrie Bradshaw can die in a fire, as far as I'm concerned, because she is NOT in on the joke. She doesn't see her cultural vapidity, her insipid desires, and her deference to class markers and antiquated beauty standards as products of the patriarchy, not a repudiation of it.

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Fatal Femmes

Posted on Aug 12, 2010 in Feminism, Publishing, Writing | 0 comments

Choose those readers wisely, kiddos. Find people in your demographic and outside of it. Find people who are not only invested in you, but invested in story telling and a culture of reading. Find people who want your book to shine. I've got them, and they're making me better for it.

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Women are doing it for themselves – Self-Publishing vs. Traditional

Posted on Jun 9, 2010 in Publishing, Writing | 4 comments

Last night my LL and I got into a heated conversation about publishing Lunatic Fringe.  I’ve been querying agents and have gotten just a handful of replies.  Some are flat out rejections and one has requested a partial and synopsis, which I’m putting together today. My mind until last night was to take a stab at traditional publishing for these reasons: It establishes clout.  Anyone can self-publish- it takes a pro to get published by a house. It gives me a support team. ...

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