On the heels of this week's other ten-year anniversary, I've been hesitating to share this - but real life's a disorderly thing. It goes on. So, ten years ago today, still shell-shocked by the news from the US of what wasn't yet called 9/11 (and reeling from 2 hours' sleep after a very delayed flight… Continue reading Ten Years Later
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#YesGayYA… and #YesGayMG too
Here we go again. This summer, the Wall Street Journal published an inflammatory rant against Young Adult fiction – and writers fought back. In March, Jessica Verday got told to de-gay an anthology short story – and her fellow writers leapt to her defence. Back in 2009, Justine Larbalestier pointed out that white girl on… Continue reading #YesGayYA… and #YesGayMG too
Five Things
1. I am not dead! But I have been pathetically quiet lately, due to the typey parts of my brain being busy with TWO honking great book deadlines. 2. I have met my deadlines! Both of them! Whole bookfuls of words with beginnings and middles and ends and everything. 3. EXCITING NEW BIT: one of… Continue reading Five Things
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