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Hey, head on over to the All You Can Eat book blitz!

Hi, peeps! So Book Enthusiast Promotions is doing a book blitz for the anthology I co-edited with R.G. Emanuelle.

There’s a giveaway!

CLICK HERE TO GO CHECK IT OUT NO REALLY FOR REALS GO!

All You Can Eat is also an honorable mention in the 2014 Rainbow Awards. Food is SEXY, friends! Go sign up so you can find out how much.

Happy Sunday!

Method to my Madness: how I write a book review

Hey-dee how-dee, peeps!

Okay, so you can actually find me on Goodreads and over there, I do, on occasion, review books. In fact, I’m about to finish up a series by an author I particularly like and I’ll probably do a giant review of it over there.

If you’ve read my reviews at Goodreads, you’ll know whereof I speak.

I bring this up, friends, because I learned how to write book reviews first in high school, then again in college, and I honed the skill again in graduate school. There are slightly d...

In Memoriam: Leslie Feinberg

On November 15th, we lost another pioneer. Leslie Feinberg, trans/activist, theorist, mass culture changer, gender explorer and warrior, died at the age of 65, succumbing to multiple tick-borne infections that zie’d been battling for years, and zie saw all too well how the healthcare system denies access to millions of people through institutionalized discrimination and bias. If you know Feinberg’s work and impact, that shouldn’t surprise you. If you don’t, zie was a rare visionary activist w...

Unwrap these presents, y’all, and help homeless LGBTQ youth!

Hey! Got some great news yesterday from Ylva Publishing.

The holiday anthology Unwrap These Presents is HOT OFF THE EBOOK PRESS available right now as we speak.

It’s got a ton of authors (full disclosure: I’m one of them) and ALL PROCEEDS go to benefit 2 organizations that help homeless LGBTQ youth:

The Ali Forney Center in New York City

The Albert Kennedy Trust in the UK

I’m going to give you a stat, friends.

Some FORTY PERCENT of homeless youth are LGBTQ and nearly 7 in 10 respondents in this 201...

In Memoriam: Cate Culpepper

I haven’t wanted to write this post, because I didn’t want to believe that Cate was no longer with us on this mortal coil as of October 25. But Cate herself let us all know, in her own “Cate-ness” way, that it’s true.

I was not so fortunate to have met her in person, but I corresponded a bit with her via email. We e-chatted a bit about writing and our shared love of New Mexico.

I was born in Albuquerque, just north of the state’s center. Cate was from southern New Mexico, the Las Cruces area....

(Dis)organization

Heya, peeps—

Well, I’m going through a major organizational thingie up in here. No biggie. Every so often, I get rid of bunches of stuff and find better, sleeker strategies for keeping things in order. I have this issue whereby if I have too much stuff, I start freaking out and I feel trapped, so I go through a purge of sorts. It helps clear my mind and calm me down. Heh.

Generally, my office is a study in relatively controlled chaos. I have bookshelves and other shelving that I decided no long...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Hey, everybody! Go on over to Women and Words for a chance to win an ebook copy of Ylva Publishing’s Wicked Things anthology.

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE GIVEAWAY. It ends TOMORROW (1 November) at 9 PM EST US.

I also posted a short story of my own over there, but here it is here, too:

ANDI’S CREEPY (HOPEFULLY) HALLOWEEN STORY

You love camping, so when you decided to go that one time late summer above the town where you grew up, you figured it’d be like every other time. Hanging out with a group of fr...

(anti)Social Media

Hi, peeps!

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about social media and how to navigate it. I was having a conversation recently with a friend who’s teaching a college class, and a lot of the students are in their 20s/late teens. We got to talking about social media and how it’s useful for so many things, but can also be downright dangerous.

Part of that is because perceptions of privacy are so different now than they were when she and I were teens. I didn’t grow up with the ubiquitous intertoobz. Bac...

Questions answered!

Hi, everybody! Every once in a while, I take random questions from people and post them here along with my answers. This is one of those times. So here, you go. Auntie Andi’s on it.

1. From Fran (a 2-fer!)

A. “Is it easier now for lesbian authors to get published without having to go the vanity press route?”

Yes. That may or may not be a good thing, depending on your view. Here are my pros and cons, which I stated elsewhere today:

PRO: gets more books to people, allows easier access for those who...

I swear.

No, really.

It’s true. I curse. And, like many people who do, I generally use swearage in contexts in which there is precedent for it (i.e. friends and yes, family).

source

For those of you who know me personally, you’re not shocked by this revelation. For those of you who don’t, sorry. I’ve blown your image of me as a pristine, untainted virginal woman with an entire closet full of white dresses who coyly smiles and demurely defers.

I bring this up today because I was recently answering some que...