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Call Me Queer

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 in Gender, LGBTQ, Writing | 1 comment

Queer, by its very definition, is a word for the fringe. It represents the "off," the strange, the not-quite-anything. Queer is both an adjective and a verb. To queer something means to skew it, recontextualize it, or remediate it. Sometimes this means to apply a strictly queer sexual context to something, as in "queering art" by laying over a canon a queer sensibility (such as skewed gender roles, homo-eroticism, or kink, for instance). Sometimes, it means taking something out of context so that its essence can be better understood. Thus, queer is both an addition and a subtraction, inclusive and exclusive.

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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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