Fat-hate, Fiction, and Silencing–A Guest Post by Emma
Another Installment of the Reader Guest Blog Posts. Welcome Emma! Recently another Goodreads member, whom I’ll call Q, raised some interesting issues around my condemnation of author Scott Sherman because of the fat-hating language in First You Fall (2008). This is a light-hearted mystery novel, with a gay protagonist, and what I described as “vile […]
Been there. Done that. Beaten It to Death With a Dildo–By Marleen
Welcome Marleen our second in the series of reader guest posts! Been there. Done that. Beaten It to Death With a Dildo The average fantasy reader can read hundreds of books about teenage boys that rise from poverty to be the most powerful wizard/warrior/king/jedi in the world. Het romance readers can read thousands of books […]
Full Circle–Abandoning M/M for Slash
This is the first of what, I hope, will be many reader guest posts. Welcome Kate! One of my GR friends pointed out that I was mostly reading free fiction these days and asked how I was liking it. My answer: Wow! I’ve found so much good stuff out here. A lot of people know […]