Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Jezebel
February 07, 2011 | Monday | 53 Comments
Seriously, my inbox asplode. Let’s get started with the a-to-the-href, shall we? First: hear that sound? That’s the sound of champagne vendors wailing at the news that Nora Roberts will not be attending the RWA National Conference in New York this year, as I learned this morning. I’m a little bummed about this info, as her Q&A is awesome and who doesn’t love bumping into Nora Roberts in the bar? Alas, not this year. Maybe next year, I hope. * Benjamin Alsup in Esquire takes a look at sex in fiction, saying: Writing about sex is hard. Some writers claim…
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October 15, 2009 | Thursday | 105 Comments
Lately there’s been a number of articles online that I’ve read that discuss a hero type that isn’t defined, and isn’t often present in romance novels, though it’s one of my favorites. Maybe it’s because it’s not as dramatic a persona, or maybe because it’s a heroism that’s sometimes quiet, often subtle, and perhaps difficult to render in text, but the hero who defies the archetype. He’s not outsized and XXXL (as Jane wrote recently), superpowered and megaendowed financially or physically. This hero… shows up when it counts. I’m still working on a name for this one: it’s not quite…
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June 27, 2009 | Saturday | 14 Comments
Thanks to the many who sent this link: Salon talks about urban fantasy and the kickass heroine - which is kind of awesome. Candy is quoted! Woot! As M. E. Raney wrote to me about this Salon article regarding Urban Fantasy heroines: While the author notes that this boils down to the fact that detective fiction is privileged over romance fiction (gee, I wonder why?), she ultimately decides that “urban fantasy—a cross of fairy tale, noir and classic coming-of-age narrative—is peculiarly suited to wrestling with the quandaries of early 21st-century womanhood, which is itself a hybrid of age-old preconceptions and…
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August 09, 2008 | Saturday | 134 Comments
I just read this review of Breaking Dawn on Jezebel and have to note that even though I am half asleep, this paragraph rocked my world: Breaking Dawn does seem to be promoting a fundamentally conservative ideology. But then so does The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and they will pry that book from my cold, dead, godless fingers. I think ultimately we shouldn’t worry too much about what ideas young adult books promulgate. We should worry about whether the books themselves are awesome. Because awesomeness promotes thinking, and thinking promotes becoming the kind of adult we all want…
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June 27, 2008 | Friday | 48 Comments
Several readers forwarded me this snort-funny entry on old skool Harlequins from Jezebel, and I found myself nodding through much of it. Oh yes, oh yes, when they are old skool and bad, they are wonderful. Spanking? Punishing kisses? Pretend engagements? Eyebrow-raising, jaw-dropping, ‘Oh, honey’-saying comedy gold in them thar hills. But it occurred to me - surely there are worse, right? And how sad is it that I am challenging my brain to remember some, because surely, with six thousand sheikhs and not one of them Muslim, there’s a Harlequin from back in the day that can raise eyebrows…
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