Valentine’s Day falls on a Wednesday this year. Regardless of if you’re spending it with someone or just treating yourself with love, we at the Pink Palace hope you have a wonderful day!
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Big thank you to Kerri who commented on podcast episode 283, which discussed bisexual characters in romance. Kerri manages a database at Library Thing for bisexual characters and there is even a section for romance fiction. Thanks again, Kerri!
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Goodreads is celebrating Romance Week and had some further recommendations based on popular romance reads like Pride & Prejudice and Outlander. Be sure to poke around the rest of their Romance Week content!
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We’re back with another awesome Humble Bundle deal: Geek Gals! The bundle features a metric butt ton of geeky girl comics and books, some of which have been reviewed here. Highlights include Lumberjanes, Bitch Planet, and The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen.
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Sarah wanted to share this one for fans of Lucy Parker’s Act Like It. Parker put together a cute Valentine’s Day text exchange between Richard and Lainie. She also did one for 2017!
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If you need a dose of cuteness today, check out these escaping puppies! My favorite part is the parent Husky (or maybe Malamute) helping the last little straggler through the vent.
https://twitter.com/ClintFalin/status/962800215463022603
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Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
I think the parent doggo just wanted some peace and quiet, like when our parents used to send us outside to run around for a while.
Yep those are huskies, little escape artists, something the breed is known for. I live with one and he looked just like that when we got him. And yes, I bet mom wanted some quiet time!
Me: Please be a plastic vent, please be a plastic vent.
Given my previous experience with Customs, if I ordered one of these little wire trees, it would arrive at my door unwound, but someone whose eccentric search history hasn’t put them on whatever government watchdog shit list makes imports a disaster for me may find them as charming as I do:
https://www.twystedroots.co.uk/shop
The heart-shaped ones are particularly sweet.
Those text convos between Richard and Lainie are the best! Now I want to go back and reread Act Like It. And then force it onto all my friends and enemies.
Over at Jezebel, authors talk about making explicit consent sexy!
https://jezebel.com/the-romance-novelists-guide-to-hot-consent-1822991922
Those Valentine day texts are so sweet! I want to go read the book again
If you wind up getting the Humble Bundle with the Secret Loves of Geek Girls book, you get to read my very mushy story of how I met my husband through fandom.
I liked this article about how so many people think the movie “Ladybird” is so new and unique and don’t have a clue that there is something equally good in theme and tone: YA books.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/07/women-writers-youve-overlooking/
I love this woman and she needs to have her own superhero movie: https://www.themarysue.com/stagecoach-mary-the-first-african-american-mail-carrier/
Also, Amy Richau is spending her year profiling all the women of Star Wars, one per day; all the characters, actors, artists, writers, designers, and people behind the scenes of the movies, books, comics, and assorted media: http://365starwarswomen.com/
Thank you so much for sharing the Lucy Parker texts!! I loved the books (thanks to your recommendations 🙂 and these texts brought me right back into the delightfulnesss.
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