Letters of OpinionAthletes / Sports Themed Romance32 Comments
An illustrated guide to rugby for virgins …Rugby virgins, that is Calling all sports fans—and fans of hard, sexy, sweaty men! The Rugby World Cup kicked off in London on September 18 and runs through October 31. Twenty teams from around the world will compete to be the greatest rugby ... more >
Letters of Opinioninternet security / privacy10 Comments
Today I want to talk about some cyber-security issues because I’m pretty effing pissed off. Sorry. Not really. Allow me to point out that “Revenge Porn” has been something done to women for years. Per Wikipedia, since BEFORE the internet. See Beaver Hunt from the 1980s. This is something women ... more >
Letters of Opinionarchetypes / Beauty-and-the-Beast / Dracula / Fifty Shades of Grey / Frankenstein / genre critique / mythology / Transcendence / tropes / Twilight / vampires12 Comments
The idea for this essay started with a question: what is it about Twilight and its derivations, especially Fifty Shades of Grey and Transcendence, that allow these variations to represent “fresh” and “new” in the retelling? I’m not interested in whether these books are good or bad, nor am I ... more >
Letters of OpinioniOS / stylus11 Comments
The most recent iteration of the iPad was announced last Wednesday. The larger device designed for professionals and to compete with products like the Microsoft surface Pro is being sold with a stylus. The Internet rushed to post this image: . (Bonus video archive) Steve Jobs hated input devices. I ... more >
Letters of OpinionBookshelf / DIK / print books / shelf-worthy30 Comments
Several years ago, I was reading a book that had a name I found really, really jarring. It was so jarring that it was affecting my ability to read the book. It was just the name, though, so I powered up my computer, opened the ebook file and did a ... more >
In the space of a month, Scribd dropped over 70% of the romance catalog and Amazon retooled the way it paid authors under the Kindle Unlimited program. Both Scribd and Kindle Unlimited’s movements signaled (to me) that the cost of romance readers was too damn high for these subscription services. ... more >