Stephani Maari Booker's Blog, page 9
November 26, 2020
In memory of Xan West
In August of this year, I learned that erotica and romance author and blogger on kink and disability Xan West died. I'm only now writing about it here because I was too hurt to do so then. Here's the text of the tweet I posted then:
I just learned that @TGStoneButch has died. I never met them, I've never seen a photo of them, but this great writer with a great, big, beautiful brain and a heart to match blessed me with their presence thru emails & tweets of mutual support. Goodbye, my dear pen pal. #xanwest
Please read their blogs and enrich yourselves with their wisdom and knowledge:
https://coreysbookcorner.wordpress.com/
https://xanwest.wordpress.com/
Relax in Paradise, my pen pal friend.
I just learned that @TGStoneButch has died. I never met them, I've never seen a photo of them, but this great writer with a great, big, beautiful brain and a heart to match blessed me with their presence thru emails & tweets of mutual support. Goodbye, my dear pen pal. #xanwest
Please read their blogs and enrich yourselves with their wisdom and knowledge:
https://coreysbookcorner.wordpress.com/
https://xanwest.wordpress.com/
Relax in Paradise, my pen pal friend.
June 30, 2020
Smashwords summer/winter ebook sale
Smashwords is holding its annual Summer/Winter Sale July 1-31, named for it being summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern right now. I will be putting both my Athena Persephoni Publications ebooks on sale during that time.
Cultural Etiquette: a Guide for the Well-Intentioned by the late Amoja Three Rivers will be 50 percent off, and my my sci-fi booklet Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time will be free:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
Cultural Etiquette: a Guide for the Well-Intentioned by the late Amoja Three Rivers will be 50 percent off, and my my sci-fi booklet Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time will be free:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
June 18, 2020
A lesson in language and oppression
"No one is attacked, abused, oppressed, pogromed upon or enslaved because of their race, creed or cultural background. People are attacked, abused, oppressed, pogromed upon or enslaved because of racism and anti-Semitism!" -- Amoja Three Rivers
This is just one of the many lessons in Cultural Etiquette: a Guide for the Well-Intentioned, originally published in 1990, that people still need to learn.
To paraphrase the late womanist philosopher who was my friend, my skin color or ethnicity doesn't make anybody hurt me. Their racism and bigotry does. People constantly say and write, "_____ was discriminated against/assaulted/killed because of their race/gender/sexual orientation/whatever." This needs to stop. Say it right and put the blame on the oppressor, not the victim.
I wish everyone would read Amoja's book and learn this and many other lessons that need to be learned now more than ever.
The Amazon link for the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Etiqu...
Barnes and Noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cult...
Lulu:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/amoja-three-...
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
This is just one of the many lessons in Cultural Etiquette: a Guide for the Well-Intentioned, originally published in 1990, that people still need to learn.
To paraphrase the late womanist philosopher who was my friend, my skin color or ethnicity doesn't make anybody hurt me. Their racism and bigotry does. People constantly say and write, "_____ was discriminated against/assaulted/killed because of their race/gender/sexual orientation/whatever." This needs to stop. Say it right and put the blame on the oppressor, not the victim.
I wish everyone would read Amoja's book and learn this and many other lessons that need to be learned now more than ever.
The Amazon link for the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Etiqu...
Barnes and Noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cult...
Lulu:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/amoja-three-...
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
May 1, 2020
My newest sci-fi publication!
After four revisions and about 10 rejections over two years, my science fiction short story "Adjudicated" finally has been published in Astral Waters Review, a speculative fiction journal of work by people of color and/or LGBTQ+. This is my fourth science fiction story publication, not counting my booklet Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time.
The story is about a woman who suffers the consequences of a near-future carceral system in which mass incarceration has been replaced by a particularly invasive form of surveillance.
I've had three theatrical companies pay me (or offer to pay me--Twin Cities Pride got canceled, so I lost out on that) to perform a monologue version of "Adjudicated," but this is the first time any version of it has been published.
The journal is a free, downloadable PDF:
https://www.astralwatersreview.com/shop
The story is about a woman who suffers the consequences of a near-future carceral system in which mass incarceration has been replaced by a particularly invasive form of surveillance.
I've had three theatrical companies pay me (or offer to pay me--Twin Cities Pride got canceled, so I lost out on that) to perform a monologue version of "Adjudicated," but this is the first time any version of it has been published.
The journal is a free, downloadable PDF:
https://www.astralwatersreview.com/shop
April 26, 2020
My essay in a feminist "Quaranzine"
I am honored to be one of the contributors to a special issue of the Minnesota Women's Press, "Quaranzine 1.1: The Cocoon," that asks local women in the creative professions about how we're living through the state's stay-at-home order.
My essay, "Writing My Way Through," is about my go-to coping method of dealing with the changes wrought by COVID-19:
https://www.womenspress.com/wp-conten...
My essay, "Writing My Way Through," is about my go-to coping method of dealing with the changes wrought by COVID-19:
https://www.womenspress.com/wp-conten...
April 16, 2020
Authors Give Back ebook sale extended
The Smashwords.com Authors Give Back Sale that started in March, has been extended past its original end date of April 20. The sale will now end on May 31.
With this sale, many ebooks from the site are free or greatly discounted to help people have low-cost entertainment and comfort through these hard times, including my book Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time.
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
With this sale, many ebooks from the site are free or greatly discounted to help people have low-cost entertainment and comfort through these hard times, including my book Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time.
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
March 23, 2020
Smashwords' Authors Give Back Sale
Due to demand by many of its authors, Smashwords.com is having an Authors Give Back Sale in which many ebooks from the site will be free or greatly discounted through April 20 to help people have low-cost entertainment and comfort through these hard times.
My ebook Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time is free for this sale:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
My ebook Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time is free for this sale:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
December 20, 2019
Xmas through Kwanzaa ebook sale
For the second year, my Athena Persephoni Publications books, Cultural Etiquette: a Guide for the Well-Intentioned by Amoja Three Rivers and my own Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time, will be part of Smashwords' End of Year Sale. From Christmas through the end of Kwanzaa (Dec. 25 -- Jan. 1), the ebook version of the late Three Rivers' anti-oppression booklet will be 50 percent off its regular price and my sci-fi ebook will be free:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
Happy Holidays!
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
Happy Holidays!
June 22, 2019
July Athena Persephoni ebooks sale
Smashwords is holding its annual Summer/Winter Sale July 1-31. I will be putting both my Athena Persephoni Publications books on sale during that time. Cultural Etiquette: a Guide for the Well-Intentioned by the late Amoja Three Rivers will be 50 percent off, and my my sci-fi booklet Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time will be free:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
Both these books are also available as paperbacks (not on sale, sorry) for people who don't do ebooks. They can be bought wherever print books are sold, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ordering from your favorite local bookstore, or directly from the publisher (me) through Lulu:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rbooker...
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
Both these books are also available as paperbacks (not on sale, sorry) for people who don't do ebooks. They can be bought wherever print books are sold, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ordering from your favorite local bookstore, or directly from the publisher (me) through Lulu:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rbooker...
March 2, 2019
Athena Persephoni Publications ebook sale
The two books I have under my micro-publishing company Athena Persephoni, Cultural Etiquette: a Guide for the Well-Intentioned by the late Amoja Three Rivers and my sci-fi booket Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time, are on sale at Smashwords as part of the site's Read an E-Book Week promotion March 3-9.
Cultural Etiquette will be 50% off its regular price and Secret Insurrection will be free:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
Cultural Etiquette will be 50% off its regular price and Secret Insurrection will be free:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
