In an industry that largely shuts everyone who isn’t a straight white male, Faith tries to kick the door open.
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Only Ever Yours #bookreview #readwomen #YAlit
The characters in Only Ever Yours are terribly familiar. If you’ve ever been a devoted fan of the Sweet Valley Twins books like I was, you’ll remember the cast…
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman #readwomen #bookreview @thelindywest
Rarely do fat female role models appear in the United States (um, or elsewhere), so I put a hold on a copy at the library.
This is what revising LOOKS like! #amwriting #romancenovels #writerslife
This post was born out of my curiosity at a Tweet she shared. It looked like a giant roll of paper and was an example of how Brooks edits. I wanted to see how a writer revises!
Hung Up
Once upon a time, last semester, I took a course called International Foods. I did this because I liked the idea of eating at school, and also learning in a room that had ovens.
Meet the Writer: Rebecca Brooks
I wrote my dissertation on the romance plot in contemporary feminist utopian and dystopian fiction.
Furiously Happy
Last week, I reviewed Jenny Lawson’s first memoir, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir). Since then, my number of visitors to Grab the Lapels has… Read more “Furiously Happy”
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
Jenny Lawson’s newest memoir, Furiously Happy, was published this past September. I saw the cover with the crazy raccoon all over the advertisements on Goodreads. So, I looked up Lawson,… Read more “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened”
Women in Clothes
Women in Clothes (2014, Blue Rider Press) is an anthology unlike any kind before it. At 515 pages, you may wonder what so many women have to say… Read more “Women in Clothes”
Hello, Twitter
Today, I finally got a Twitter account. I’m so far behind on social media (mostly because it’s scary) that Twitter will probably be obsolete by the time… Read more “Hello, Twitter”
