6/28/2023 0 Comments The Deepest Cut by J.A. Templeton![]() Ian’s departure had left a hole in my heart, and returning to the scene of said departure would be tough. ![]() “I’d like that,” I said, even though I wasn’t sure I could handle being in the castle right now. Of course I could see the castle…if she could see the inn. “I can see the castle from my room, too,” I said, feeling like an idiot the second I said it. It’s nice to see lights on over there now. ![]() “I can see the inn from my bedroom window. “I bet,” I said, realizing I’d have to be careful and not ever let on that I’d actually been inside her house. “It’s a bit big and drafty…but it’s growing on me.” I noticed Cassandra seemed a lot less hostile around me, and was almost tolerable, though I had a feeling we would never be good friends. Megan snorted, while Cassandra nodded in agreement. “You were smart to kick his ass to the curb. At least not anymore.”Ĭait rolled her eyes. “So I hear Johan is into you,” she said lifting her brows high. I liked her immediately, and even better, we clicked instantly. Her shirt had a threadiness about it that any punk rocker would love, and the platinum chunks in her hair and the dark makeup set her apart from the norm. ![]() ![]() Megan had been right-she was a rebel, her clothing not new like everyone else’s. The dark hair and large blue eyes were a dead give away. I knew Cait MacKinnon the minute she walked into the school cafeteria. ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Naughty & Nice by Ruthie Knox![]() ![]() My favorite wonkomance moment is Ruthie’s post, “Realism, Romance, and Wonkomance,” which I’ve had bookmarked on my laptop since last January. Every Wonkomance contributor will be throwing in a prize for one lucky commenter - more details at the end of the post. If you don’t know Mary Ann, feel free to mosey over to her bio to get to know her better - or visit the comment section on recent posts to get a feel for her twisty-turny brain!Īnd now for a roundup of favorite Wonkomance moments in the first year, kicked off by Mary Ann. ![]() She’s left so many scary-awesome comments, we really had no choice. In the interest of enriching our ability to wave the banner of wonk for another year and beyond, we’re adding a new contributor! Mary Ann Vadnais will be joining our stable of wonksters. We have a community of truly awesome regular readers and commenters, and we’re still amusing the heck out of ourselves. Somehow, three hundred sixty-five days have passed, and we’ve published eighty-three posts on everything from whether it’s okay to use the word “labia” in romance (yes) to thinky meta- posts comparing genre fiction to blues music - and rather a lot of in-between. Or, at least, the part of the world that was paying attention. One year ago today, Wonkomance launched with an introductory post in which we revealed our manifesto to the world. ![]() Sarah Wynde! Thanks to everyone who commented, and to all of you who read, whether erratically or faithfully. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first thing that merits attention in this book is the pacing. A narrative about obsession, loneliness, sadomasochism, and control, this novella is also a superb body horror narrative that will make many readers uncomfortable in the best way possible. ![]() In other words, you should just know the basics: This is the story of two women who meet online because one of them is selling an antique apple peeler and their relationship soon morphs into something different. Because of that, going into too much detail regarding the plot would ruin a few juicy surprises. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a short novella, coming in at 120 pages, but the email and chat format it uses makes it feel like less. If you giggled when Kathy Bates grabbed the axe and then the propane torch to keep Paul where she wanted him, then this is a book you needed to read last week. If you like your horror implied, move on because this book isn’t for you. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is as weird, nasty, and fast as its title is long, and that’s not a joke. ![]() This is a horror website and you’re not here looking for romance, so LaRocca fucking up your day is a good thing. The thing about it, though, is that if you’re reading this, chances are you want someone to do exactly that. ![]() I’m not gonna lie to you: Eric LaRocca is here to fuck up your day. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Deadly little scandals![]() ![]() As the mystery grows and the plot thickens, Grayson and Jameson, two of the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different directions. Thanks to a DNA test, Avery knows that she’s not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined. The Inheritance Games ended with a bombshell, and now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions-including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters or grandsons. ![]() Intrigue, riches, and romance abound in this thrilling sequel to the beloved bestselling The Inheritance Games OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD OF THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES! ![]() ![]() The second novel in the series, Murder at the Nightwood Bar, was optioned for film by director Tim Hunter The screenplay had been written and roles cast with Mary Louise Parker as Delafield and Tom Arnold as her police partner, but the project was ultimately shelved. lang, Sherlock Holmes with Candace Gingrich, and you've got Kate Delafield: ex-Marine, homicide detective for the LAPD, queer-as-the-day-is-long heroine". The character was the very first lesbian police detective in the American lesbian mystery genre and is described as "Miss Marple with k.d. After 17 years together, on July 15, 2008, in San Francisco they were married by California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno.įorrest is best known for her eight novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield. She lives with her wife, Jo Hercus, were long-time resident of the San Francisco area and now live in Palm Springs. Forrest (born 1939 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is an American writer. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Pucked under![]() ![]() ![]() “Charlene bought you a butt plug?” He doesn’t sound particularly impressed. ![]() “Lily? Did you buy this because you want me to use it on you?” But backdoor anything has never been on my radar-not until I started hanging out with Violet and Charlene. I needed to take care of myself on a regular basis. I have a fairly high sex drive, and my ex-boyfriend did not. I’ve had a vibrator for a few years, because I have needs. I’d totally forgotten about the butt plug. ![]() “Umm…” The last time I used this bag was on our Vegas trip, months ago, when Alex and Violet got married. I mean, obviously when we have sex doggy style, he’ll slide his cock between my bum cheeks before he makes a home out of my vag, but in the year we’ve been together, he’s never tried to get into the Area 51 zone, as Violet calls it. “Wanna tell me about this?” His voice vibrates with excitement. Randy pushes up on his arms and moves the remaining strands out of the way. “What kind of interesting items?” I turn my head to the side and blow my hair out of my face. I don’t remember putting anything exciting in there, apart from my bullet, but that’s nothing new. I mentally review the contents of my bag. “The sexy lingerie is nice, but that’s not what I’m talking about.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Get her free Soul Hunger video series to learn more about her approach. She provides online individual consultations, and conducts workshops and professional trainings around the world, using metaphor and storytelling along with her training as a clinical psychologist, to address the complex issues that underlie struggles with eating, weight, and body image. She is currently Clinical Director of ‘Ai Pono Maui, an Eating Disorders Residential Treatment Program on the island of Maui. She founded the Anorexia & Bulimia Center of Hawaii in 1982 and the first Eating Disorders IOP in the country, ‘Ai Pono, in Honolulu in 2001. ![]() ![]() Johnston has been working in the field of women’s issues and eating difficulties for over three decades. She is the author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, which has been published in six languages, and the co-creator of the Light of the Moon Café, an interactive e-course and online “workbook” for Eating in the Light of the Moon. Psychotherapist and author Anita Johnston shares how learning to feel and honor your feelings can help you heal from food issues, why she had a very unusual relationship with food growing up, how beauty ideals for women have remained oppressive over time even if they change slightly, why being intuitive and able to read people is both a liability and a gift, why it's important to have both boundaries and flexibility, the role of storytelling and metaphor in eating recovery, and lots more! Anita Johnston, Ph.D, CEDS, is a clinical psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Shattered by Lee Winter![]() ![]() I decided to stop just talking about it and write my own. I’d love a million more books with diversity of every stripe, but especially BIPoC. One, I feel lesbian fiction, including sci-fi, is so very white. Why did you make your lesbian superhero a woman of color? What they come to feel and share is an exploration and realization of what it means to be human. Then briefly physically, before finally they reach an understanding that is a deep, soul-connected friendship. It starts as an argument: Does a superhero get to deprive us of her incredible skills given Earth saved her life? Does she have that right to walk away just because she’s mad at being outed as a lesbian superhero? That’s how Lena sees her position at least, and she’s in for an education.įrom this fight emerges a connection that begins intellectually. That’s a difficult thing when one of the women (the superhero Nyah/Shattergirl) just wants to hide out at the ends of the earth, and the other, Lena, a tracker, wants to drag her back to civilization. ![]() ![]() She wears the outfit, has a special skill of being able to hurl huge objects, and shatter them, but that’s almost beside the point of the book.Īt its core, Shattered is about two incredibly different women who disagree on almost everything, forced to sit down as a storm literally rages around them, and find common ground. I mean, yes, of course, it is sci-fi because she is a superhero, and Earth’s first lesbian superhero, no less, in my universe. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments The snow spider trilogy![]() ![]() The series enthralled me, and I found myself anxiously waiting for each book in the series to come back in to our school library (the series was popular). Many, many years ago, I read Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising. During the summer they run a residential school of art, and she has to move her office, put down tools (type-writer and pencil, and don an apron and cook! They have three grown-up children, Myfawny, Ianto, and Gwenwyfar. ![]() They live in a very old converted watermill, and the river is constantly threatening to break in, as it has done several times in the past, most dramatically on her youngest child's first birthday. ![]() She left BBC to marry a Welsh artist David Wynn Millward and went to live in Wales in her husband's family home. On her return, she joined the BBC, first as a picture researcher, then as an assistant floor manager, studio manager (news) then finally a director/adaptor with Jackanory (a BBC storytelling program for children). She left Britain to teach English to three Italian boys in Almafi, Italy. She graduated and acted in repertory theater in various towns and cities: Eastbourne, Tunbridge Wells, Brighton, Hastings, and Bexhill. Jenny Nimmo was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England and educated at boarding schools in Kent and Surrey from the age of six until the age of sixteen, when she ran away from school to become a drama student/assistant stage manager with Theater South East. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gilman developed this perspective at length in her non-fiction works. Ward's concept of gynecocentric (i.e., womancentered) social theory reinforced Gilman's strong belief in the fundamental rationality of women's values and social contributions. Ward (1841-1913), a founding American sociologist who admired Gilman and vice versa. ![]() The socially problematic issues that Gilman explored in her works echo theoretical proposals of Lester F. The primary site for Gilman's continuing sociological work was the Forerunner (1909-16), a monthly journal that Gilman wrote and self-published. Her Women and Economics (1898) launched a searching feminist sociological critique of the economic position of women in patriarchal societies. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an influential and sometimes controversial contributor to early American sociology. ![]() |