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90 Days of Self Publishing Day 1: Editing and Typesetting [VIDEO]

Posted on Jul 1, 2011 in 90 Days of Self Publishing, Publishing, Video | 0 comments

Editing and Typesetting are the two most fundamental parts of building a book.

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Monday Morning Excerpt

Posted on Apr 25, 2011 in Writing | 0 comments

Since I'm post-less today, thanks to a very fun and busy weekend, I decided to post a random page from the Inner Moonlight manuscript. This part comes very late in the book, right before the climax. Enjoy!

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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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Resisting Exotification

Posted on Jul 12, 2010 in Feminism, Writing | 3 comments

As a white woman writing about characters of various races, I've got an eye to my white privilege, trying to stay vigilant against any cultural objectification or exotification that may creep into my writing. While I'm pretty aware of the perniciousness of white privilege, I realize that I, like everyone, has some blindspots. It's my job as a writer to make sure I'm speaking to all my readers without exotifying or commodifying bits of culture I want while discarding the rest.

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Female Werewolf Hunting

Posted on Jun 19, 2010 in Feminism, Gender, Literature | 5 comments

Werewolves are the unbridled id. They represent the beast that lies within us all- that beast who lusts for battle, blood, and boning.

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