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My #FeministUtopia: Our Bodies and Our Stories Belong to us
“But, as I now realize, the political will never truly change unless it is accompanied by a parallel fight in the realm of the personal–the double revolution.”–Mona Eltahawy Today is Feminist Utopia...
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All the Things Eileen Myles Says That Make Me Dog-Ear Pages
I’m reading Inferno by Eileen Myles right now. The book cover calls it “a poet’s novel.” To me this means two things: one, that its structure is not organized in a traditional way (scenes often flash...
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We Can Do Better: We Need More Diverse Representation in Our Storytelling
The other day my friend and I got into a conversation about TV shows (as a pop culture junkie, this is something I am often wont to do). After watching my favorite episode of Buffy (“Tabula Rasa,”...
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NaNo…Not So Fast
I have now participated in National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, for three years. In the last month, I’ve been feeling the spirit moving me towards participating in my fourth year, but last night...
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Something That Makes My Book Start to Feel Real
The Ooligan Press logo–all their PNW imagery fills the hole in my West Coast-missing heart. Over two years ago, I wrote regular blog posts for Ooligan Press’s Start to Finish series tracking the...
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Food is Love
This month, The Feminist Press published The Raging Skillet: The True Life Story of Chef Rossi. As part of our social media campaign for Rossi’s book, various staff and interns wrote about recipes that...
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Double Book Report: Riot Grrrl Writing
As prep for my new young adult novel about riot grrrl vampires (and because each book looked incredibly interesting), I got my hands on copies of music critic Jessica Hopper’s The First Collection of...
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Book Inspo
So that whole NaNoWriMo thing, yeah that didn’t happen for me this month. It felt strange not participating in it for the first time in four years. But between work and needing to turn around edits on...
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Book Report: Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw
I love the serendipity of having the right book come to you at the right time. Thankfully, as someone who works in publishing and surrounds herself with other book people, it’s usually not hard to...
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On Holiday
I’m leaving for the West Coast in a few days and taking the rest of the year off from my blog. I am excited to report that I hit my first manuscript milestone with the new book, reaching the 10,000...
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New Year, New Story
Happy New Year! I’m kicking off 2016 “Live Your Best Life” with a new story on tNY Press’s Electronic Encyclopedia of Experimental Lit. Back in the summer of 2014, they accepted my first piece, a...
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Book Baby Birth Announcement
I have a few updates about my forthcoming short story collection. First, it is now titled Siblings and Other Disappointments. Going through the renaming journey was exciting and surprisingly...
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Book Report: Girls to the Front
When I mentioned to my boss that I was starting work on a Riot Grrrl vampire young adult manuscript, she asked me if I had read Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara...
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Breaking Up With Lolita
I’ve long cited Lolita as one of my top six favorite books (for the record, the others are : the collected works of Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Alice Munro, along with One Hundred Years of...
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All the Things I Could be Doing if I Weren’t Writing This Book
Lately, I’ve been keeping my head down and working hard on my current young adult manuscript. What was originally scheduled for an end of March first draft deadline should in theory be done by tomorrow...
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Book Report: Sphinx
Since starting working at The Feminist Press ten months ago, I’ve been reading a lot more translations. Unfortunately, of all the books published in the U.S., only three percent are translations, which...
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AWP 2016 Conference Packing List
Tomorrow, I fly out to the promised land, aka California. Though I wish it were to stay, my time there will be but temporary. For the first time, I’m attending AWP’s Annual Conference, held this year...
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California Waiting: An AWP 2016 Recap
I flew back from LA on Sunday and am more over less over my jet lag and more or less feeling like a human again. Whoa, convention life is crazy. This was my first time at The Association of Writers and...
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On Hiatus
But I’ll be back soon! I have been lagging in the blog updates department, mostly because I’m busy working on essays/marketing ideas for my October book launch, have been swamped at work, am editing my...
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