Emily M. Danforth's Blog, page 65
December 13, 2012
The very good denizens of Autostraddle.com land have voted and...
The very good denizens of Autostraddle.com land have voted and they’ve come up with their list of the Top 100 Lesbian Books (Fiction or Memoir) of “All Time.” It’s really a pretty kick-ass group (I’ve already added a dozen or so books to my winter-break reading list) and I’m truly humbled (and honestly more than a little bit shocked) to find tMoCP so generously ranked within it. I’m telling you: lots of CAM POST love from the Autostraddlers this year, which has been absolutely incredible.
(Click the pic to check the list and add to yer own TBR pile)
Not sure I can explain how much I love...
December 11, 2012
Somehow (incredibly, amazingly) CAM POST is in the running for...
Somehow (incredibly, amazingly) CAM POST is in the running for the Best Book of 2012 as part of After Ellen.com’s Visibility Awards. And she’s up against books by wicked heavy hitters (we’re talking celesbian authors, here) like Jeanette Winterson, Alison Bechdel, Rachel Maddow, and Beth Ditto. It’s an honor even to be on that list. But, the other very cool thing is that anyone can vote (and vote ONCE PER HOUR, at that) through January 2nd. If you’d be so inclined to send a vote (or several!) CAM POST’s way, it would mean a lot. Or, you know, visit and vote for one of those other excellent books, and check out the other Visibility Award categories while you’re there—there’s everything from Best Web Series to Best Lesbian Moment. Good, good times.
Click-the-pic above to Vote!
December 8, 2012
Friend and Providence artist A.K. Summers has posted the final...
Friend and Providence artist A.K. Summers has posted the final installment of her EXCELLENT comic-memoir PREGNANT BUTCH. If you haven’t been following along, grab yerself a cup of coffee (or something stronger) and settle in for a delightful (free!) read. It’s smart and funny and generally fantastic, and I dearly hope that it gets published in print soon so that I can hold it in my hands and read the whole thing again.
(Click-the-pic to start reading)
"The other glorious, inspiring truth is that some people are naturally late bloomers. Leonard Cohen..."
The other glorious, inspiring truth is that some people are naturally late bloomers. Leonard Cohen didn’t release his first album until he was 32. Julia Child didn’t move to Paris until she was 36, and she didn’t get her famous television show until she was 51. Wallace Stevens didn’t publish any poems until he was 38. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada didn’t found the Hare Krishna movement until he was 70. There is time for all of us to figure out what it is we want to do—and to change our minds over and over again, if necessary.
No one is timing you. Let me repeat that: no one is timing you.
It’s so easy to get caught up with what other people are doing—whether it’s personal or creative, a date to the prom or a hit single on the radio—that we forget that we only know part of the story. I used to get obsessed with what other writers were “getting,” whether it was publication in a really good magazine, or a prize that came with a big check, or even just an invitation to a fancy party that I wanted to attend. It’s easy to get sucked into that, and to spend more time worrying about what other people are doing than working on your own stuff—but if you want to stay sane, remember that no one’s life is easy, even if it looks that way from a certain angle. Being a human is complicated business, and when one issue in life (WHEN WILL I PUBLISH A NOVEL?!?) is resolved, others spring forward to take its place. It’s important to pause long enough to feel truly grateful for whatever goodness has occurred—and then, yup, get back to work.
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Emma Straub, from her post “Late Bloomer” for Rookie.com
December 7, 2012
Among my very favorite pages (from the most scandalous of the...
Among my very favorite pages (from the most scandalous of the sections) in Truman Capote’s infamously unfinished final novel Answered Prayers.
Lady Ina (from Butte, Montana, of course) goes on to explain later in the scene: Did you know that Santa Fe is the dyke capital of the United States? What San Francisco is to le garcons, Santa Fe is to the Daughters of Bilitis. I suppose it’s because the butchier ones like dragging up in boots and denim. There’s delicious women there…
(And all of this has something to do with my new novel-in-progress, too…)
"Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a..."
- DEAR SUGAR, THE RUMPUS ADVICE COLUMN #64: TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS (via malindalo)
December 6, 2012
I’m over-the-moon about the news that tMoCP is a finalist...
I’m over-the-moon about the news that tMoCP is a finalist for the Morris Award—so honoured beyond belief that I have to spell honoured the British way, with a “u,” to properly express my level of honour. And a huge congrats to the other finalists—S.D. Crockett’s AFTER THE SNOW; Rachel Hartman’s SERAPHINA; Hannah Barnaby’s WONDER SHOW; and Laura Buzo’s LOVE AND OTHER PERISHABLE ITEMS.
(click-the-pic for more info on the Morris Awards and this year’s noms.)
