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October 28, 2014

Being crazy: An insider’s view on ableist language

Guest ReviewerLetters of Opinionableism / appropriation / genre critique / mental health / representation63 Comments

[themify_box style=”light-yellow rounded ” ]Kris used to review and blog on book related things before RL intervened in big, scary ways. Now she tends to somewhat vaguely hang out on Twitter, comment *very* infrequently on reading matters that pique her interest and talk about her mental health journey on tumblr ... more >

October 21, 2014

Poisoning the Well

JanetLetters of OpinionARCs / authors-behaving-badly / blogging / genre critique / harassment / Publishers-Behaving-Badly / Reader Reviews / stalking181 Comments

For better or worse, I have always been a fighter. For the people and principles I care about most, I will go to the mat, and the more unfair a situation becomes, the more energized to set things right I seem to become. I’m one of those cynical idealists who ... more >

October 14, 2014

Tuesday News: Dropbox drops files; YouTube stars getting book deals; SFF author revealed as controversial blogger; and Catherine Roach on Romance “claims”

JanetPublishing Newsblogging / cloud storage / dropbox / genre critique / genre rules / publishing / reviews / SFF / YouTube42 Comments

Heads Up: Dropbox Bug is Eating Files – So apparently Dropbox is actually deleting files, and while the company is trying to remedy the issue (and is offering a year of Dropbox Pro as compensation), they have apparently informed those they believe have thus far been affected: Hi, We’re reaching ... more >

October 14, 2014

The Isolated Romance Heroine

JanetLetters of Opinionculture / family / female friendship / gender / genre critique / heroine / isolation / romantic conflict36 Comments

A few weeks ago I wrote a post on Romance and life philosophies, and during the vibrant ensuing discussion, Liz Mc2 made a great point about how the more Romance novels narrow their focus to just the couple, the less we see of their interaction and engagement with the outside ... more >

September 9, 2014

Alpha, Beta, and Reading Against Type

JanetLetters of OpinionAlpha hero / Anne Bishop / archetypes / beta hero / Dark Fantasy / genre critique / Romance17 Comments

One of the things I enjoyed most about the essays of Michelle Sagara and Elizabeth Vail on the alpha and beta heroes in Romance was the range of comments and interpretations of both heroic types. How could the same type produce so many different, and often conflicting, ideas of what ... more >

June 10, 2014

Revisiting Reader Consent

JanetLetters of Opiniongenre critique / rape fantasy / reader consent / Romance / sexual force9 Comments

These two pieces were originally published in 2011. The first, by Jane, is on general reader consent, and the second, by Robin, is on reader consent and sexual force in Romance.  The reader consent issue was raised last week on Twitter, and we figured it might be time to re-run these ... more >

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