Jaye Em Edgecliff's Blog, page 6
June 10, 2016
Sex Ed and Jazz Jennings
That title actually makes sense, just keep with me here.
I’ve just been watching the latest crap floating round this country, the UK, Northern Ireland, and other places and I’ve got to say something.
SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY!
That feels better.
For the more articulate point.
These people are supposedly all about protecting families, especially children. Yet they are bound and determined to kill … untold hundreds, thousands, millions? of them. And I wish it were hyperbole, but it’s not. Litera...
June 9, 2016
An awesome I found on Twitter
.@DrJillStein: “The Democratic Party creates campaigns that fake left while it moves right” pic.twitter.com/DdahD4ROeS
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) 9 June 2016
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#BNFestBuzz announcement!
I have anevent!!!
I’ve beeninvited, like totally out of the blue, to be one of the authors at the Teen Festival thing at the Hadley, MA B&N!
What’s weirder? Iagreed!
Have I mentioned before I’mshy? I’m going to be doing a book signing, and there was mention of something involving the words “reading” and “excerpt” …
What have I got myself into?
Look, if you’re in New England and want to have a copy of my book signed by me in person like face-to-face and all that, I’ll be on Sunday 12 June at 3...
Oy, stress!
Ugh, so I promised a short story related toReady or Not. It exists. It has for awhile. It just hasn’t got typed yet.
Lots and lots of reasons, all of them come down to serious stress. 90% of the problem comes from I’ve had to spend the end of winter and all of spring looking for a new place and then moving. Simple version: landlady ran into some financial woes that lead to her changing what her use for the place I was living were to be … and therefor no renewal of the lease.
Things are lookin...
May 4, 2016
Your Silence Is Deafening: An Open Letter To the Target Boycotters
I hear you.
You’reangry.
I get it, I’m angry too.
I’m not talking to the people who are angry at Target because their Pro Transgender bathroom policy flies in the face of their cherry picked moral compass.I’m not under any obligation to respect their beliefs.
I’m talking to you… the people who have no issue with sharing a bathroom with LGBT people. I’m talking to those of you who are speaking out about this bathroom policy, expressing concern over the women and...
May 2, 2016
April 14, 2016
Protecting Faith or Legalising Discrimination?
Anyone keeping up with American news lately may have noticed the things going on here are a little … crazy. Indiana, North Carolina, Mississippi … these ‘bathroom bills’ and ‘religious freedom bills’ and what have you, yes?
First, let me just chastise both sides a little bit:
LGBT • just because a business has the right to do something doesn’t mean they will. There’re too many getting a little too carried away here. Histrionics and hyperbole are fine in satire, like a SNL sketch, but it’s not...
February 14, 2016
Why #MerryChristmasStarbucks is Everything Wrong with American Christianity
A few days ago, former pastor Joshua Feuersteinposted a video announcinga campaign against Starbucksdue to their switch from festive holiday cups in previous years to a new plain red look for the 2015 holiday season. In the video, Feuerstein claims that Starbucks wanted to “take Christ and Christmas off of their brand new cups” because, […]
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February 8, 2016
Who cares?
I’ve reverted to generic non-biography bios.
This is because I realised something: I can’t be representation. I could be a perfect fiction. Even if I had a picture of my face instead of that faerie, how’re you to know that’smy face? Okay, see me at a convention? Does romance fictionhave conventions?! See me at the market? What’re the odds? Too, what’re the odds you’d recognise me?
Authors, once they’re in the hands of a reader, are not people. We’re a collection of letters following the word...
Where’d Facebook go?
So a few of you may have noticed I don’t have a Facebook page anymore.
That’s why. Only a few people had it liked, Facebook’s algorithms meant evenI never saw my posts, and I really don’t like Facebook for a number of personal reasons that meant it was foolish to keep it.
Really, I would keep it if Facebook acknowledged that people who like a page might actually want to see its posts. I mean, plenty of automated methods of posting, after all (clearly as I never actuallyuse my personal FB acco...
