CHICKS DIG GAMING — table of contents released

I am getting very, very excited for the November release of Chicks Dig Gaming. It looks jam-packed with cool essays about games (video games, tabletop games, live-action games–you name it!), and it includes a ton of women whose work I adore. Here’s the whole line-up: 

• Thank You, Mario, but Our Princess is in Another Castle, by Catherynne M. Valente

• ’Round the World With Nellie Bly, by Rosemary Jones

• Select Hero or Heroine, by Dawn Foran

• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Numbers: a Girl, a Rulebook and Arithmetic, by Seanan McGuire

• Look Behind You! A Three-Headed Monkey!, by L.M. Myles

• So You Want to Start a Fight, by Dorothy Ail

• Who in the Hell is Carmen Sandiego?, by Teresa Jusino

• An Interview with Lisa Stevens

• Intuition, Gaming and the Laboratory Scientist, by Kelly Swails

• Saving the Galaxy in Cute Shoes, by Zoe Estrin-Grele

• The Silence of the Games, by Sarah Groenewegen

• Raising Gamers, by Filamena Young

• Game Change, by Linnea Dodson

• The Evolution of a LARPer in Three Acts, by Johanna Mead

• Black Windows, by E. Lily Yu

• Another Puzzle Solved? Professor Layton and the Passive Princess, by Mags L. Halliday

• An Axe Up My Sleeve, by Cheryl Twist

• A Chick Who Doesn’t Dig Games Plays “Portal,” by Fiona Moore

• An Interview with Margaret Weis

• How to Design Games for Boys, by Lynnea Glasser

• The Grace of Dice and Glossy Cardstock, by Lucy A. Snyder

• THAC0 of a Gamer Girl, by Jaleigh Johnson

• Let Us Play, by Lene Taylor

• The Hero in My Story, by Caitlin Sullivan

• When the Stars are Right, by Wendy N. Wagner

• A Vicarious Tale of Getting into Video Games for the Plot, by Hannah Rothman

• We Play to Lose, by Emily Care Boss

• It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere, by Amy Hanson

• Saving Throws, by Jody Lynn Nye

• Go for the Eyes, Gamer Girls, Go for the Eyes!, by Sam Maggs

• Looking for Group, by G. Willow Wilson

• Refuge, by Mary Anne Mohanraj

• Leopards at the Wedding: Finding Love in a Glitchy Landscape, by Miriam Oudin

• Blood on the Hull: Gender, Dominion and the Business of Betrayal in “Eve,” by Jen J. Dixon

• Castling, by Racheline Maltese

It looks like the pieces range from game analysis to personal essays to interviews, so I think there’s a ton of great variety. I’m sure you can guess what my essay is about!