June 11, 2019 SEATTLE EVENT: Self-Publishing PROS, CONS, and WTFs on June 18, 2019 As part of my Offbeat Ada's event series here in Seattle at Ada's Technical Books, I'm hosting an evening of discussion with two Seattle publishing industry colleagues to dig into….. Read More April 5, 2019 SEATTLE EVENT: Sex Work is a Feminist Issue on April 22, 2019 Seattle friends! Join PROS BEFORE BROS author Ariel Meadow Stallings from the Offbeat Empire for an evening of discussion with Pike Long, Deputy Director of St. James Infirmary, the nation's only clinic operated for and by people in the sex industry. We'll dive into the details and differences between sex work, trafficking, and exploitation using an intersectional feminist lens. Read More October 3, 2018 SEATTLE EVENT: Demon Dialogues with Lucy Bellwood on October 16, 2018 As part of my Offbeat Ada's series of author events here in Seattle at Ada's Technical Books, on October 16, 2018 I'll be hosting a night with Lucy Bellwood, author of a book called 100 Demon Dialogues. The evening will feature a reading and discussion about Lucy's collection of comics about cohabiting with a petulant (if oddly lovable) Inner Critic. Seattle friends: I hope to see you there! Read More May 1, 2018 Bad Romance part 3: Demanding greater diversity in who gets a happily ever after in romance One of the big success stories in self-publishing is romance. According to popular platform Smashwords, the genre dominates the market. With a few clicks any writer can become an author. Which makes it possible that a novel most major publishing houses and quite a few small presses would have turned down, one that hasn’t seen an editor’s red pen, or even a proofreader will wind up on Amazon more than in other genres. There’s an argument for gatekeepers, right? Not so fast. Here's part three in this series on romance as a genre… Read More April 30, 2018 Bad Romance part 2: The romance genre needs better critique, not more gatekeepers Though romance novels have always centered relationships and women, there’s no argument that issues of consent and coercion abound in the genre's shady past. Consider the conflicted relationships readers have with Kathleen Woodwiss’ The Flame and the Flower, a novel that is said to have started the modern “bodice ripper” romance genre. Here's part two analyzing the romance genre in books… Read More 123…7
April 5, 2019 SEATTLE EVENT: Sex Work is a Feminist Issue on April 22, 2019 Seattle friends! Join PROS BEFORE BROS author Ariel Meadow Stallings from the Offbeat Empire for an evening of discussion with Pike Long, Deputy Director of St. James Infirmary, the nation's only clinic operated for and by people in the sex industry. We'll dive into the details and differences between sex work, trafficking, and exploitation using an intersectional feminist lens. Read More October 3, 2018 SEATTLE EVENT: Demon Dialogues with Lucy Bellwood on October 16, 2018 As part of my Offbeat Ada's series of author events here in Seattle at Ada's Technical Books, on October 16, 2018 I'll be hosting a night with Lucy Bellwood, author of a book called 100 Demon Dialogues. The evening will feature a reading and discussion about Lucy's collection of comics about cohabiting with a petulant (if oddly lovable) Inner Critic. Seattle friends: I hope to see you there! Read More May 1, 2018 Bad Romance part 3: Demanding greater diversity in who gets a happily ever after in romance One of the big success stories in self-publishing is romance. According to popular platform Smashwords, the genre dominates the market. With a few clicks any writer can become an author. Which makes it possible that a novel most major publishing houses and quite a few small presses would have turned down, one that hasn’t seen an editor’s red pen, or even a proofreader will wind up on Amazon more than in other genres. There’s an argument for gatekeepers, right? Not so fast. Here's part three in this series on romance as a genre… Read More April 30, 2018 Bad Romance part 2: The romance genre needs better critique, not more gatekeepers Though romance novels have always centered relationships and women, there’s no argument that issues of consent and coercion abound in the genre's shady past. Consider the conflicted relationships readers have with Kathleen Woodwiss’ The Flame and the Flower, a novel that is said to have started the modern “bodice ripper” romance genre. Here's part two analyzing the romance genre in books… Read More 123…7
October 3, 2018 SEATTLE EVENT: Demon Dialogues with Lucy Bellwood on October 16, 2018 As part of my Offbeat Ada's series of author events here in Seattle at Ada's Technical Books, on October 16, 2018 I'll be hosting a night with Lucy Bellwood, author of a book called 100 Demon Dialogues. The evening will feature a reading and discussion about Lucy's collection of comics about cohabiting with a petulant (if oddly lovable) Inner Critic. Seattle friends: I hope to see you there! Read More May 1, 2018 Bad Romance part 3: Demanding greater diversity in who gets a happily ever after in romance One of the big success stories in self-publishing is romance. According to popular platform Smashwords, the genre dominates the market. With a few clicks any writer can become an author. Which makes it possible that a novel most major publishing houses and quite a few small presses would have turned down, one that hasn’t seen an editor’s red pen, or even a proofreader will wind up on Amazon more than in other genres. There’s an argument for gatekeepers, right? Not so fast. Here's part three in this series on romance as a genre… Read More April 30, 2018 Bad Romance part 2: The romance genre needs better critique, not more gatekeepers Though romance novels have always centered relationships and women, there’s no argument that issues of consent and coercion abound in the genre's shady past. Consider the conflicted relationships readers have with Kathleen Woodwiss’ The Flame and the Flower, a novel that is said to have started the modern “bodice ripper” romance genre. Here's part two analyzing the romance genre in books… Read More 123…7
May 1, 2018 Bad Romance part 3: Demanding greater diversity in who gets a happily ever after in romance One of the big success stories in self-publishing is romance. According to popular platform Smashwords, the genre dominates the market. With a few clicks any writer can become an author. Which makes it possible that a novel most major publishing houses and quite a few small presses would have turned down, one that hasn’t seen an editor’s red pen, or even a proofreader will wind up on Amazon more than in other genres. There’s an argument for gatekeepers, right? Not so fast. Here's part three in this series on romance as a genre… Read More April 30, 2018 Bad Romance part 2: The romance genre needs better critique, not more gatekeepers Though romance novels have always centered relationships and women, there’s no argument that issues of consent and coercion abound in the genre's shady past. Consider the conflicted relationships readers have with Kathleen Woodwiss’ The Flame and the Flower, a novel that is said to have started the modern “bodice ripper” romance genre. Here's part two analyzing the romance genre in books… Read More 123…7
April 30, 2018 Bad Romance part 2: The romance genre needs better critique, not more gatekeepers Though romance novels have always centered relationships and women, there’s no argument that issues of consent and coercion abound in the genre's shady past. Consider the conflicted relationships readers have with Kathleen Woodwiss’ The Flame and the Flower, a novel that is said to have started the modern “bodice ripper” romance genre. Here's part two analyzing the romance genre in books… Read More 123…7