A bit on the origin of the word Cunt. (Video found via @laurendane on Tumblr).
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Renae
Oct 12
|23:05
Here’s the article I read on the topic: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/10/12/notes101211.DTL&nl=fix. It looks like Mexico City is considering two year marriages for various great reasons. Damn I love that idea. And I really love what the last paragraph says: “And maybe, for a generation defined by nothing except instant gratification and relentless change, you have to learn [...]
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Renae
Sep 21
|16:34
What kerfuffle might that be? Any of them. My Twitter feed is lighting up with reference to an article on “Should More Black Women Marry Outside the Race?” but last week, wasn’t the furor about romance readers and porn, or women basically being children, or young adult books eating souls? Truthfully, the shocking WSJ Online [...]
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Renae
Aug 22
|06:15
“We are in danger of losing one of our most precious natural villains.” – http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/08/19/grow-a-pair-of-fangs-thank-goodness-for-horrible-disgusting-merciless-vampires/
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Renae
Aug 20
|13:16
Great article in reply to some New York Times freakout or another: http://saundramitchell.com/blog/2011/08/20/the-problem-is-not-the-books/. I’ve stopped reading the big newspapers lamenting about how women are bad for books or books for women are bad for the world or whatever. I get the feeling they’re just ramping up publishing those things because they’ve figure female readers are [...]
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Renae
Jul 26
|13:05
I’ve got an intricate realistic fantasy take on heroes (and heroines) in romance. In general, I think my favorite H/Hs are closer to what I like in a real partner. I know many readers love reading about heroes they wouldn’t actually want to date (hello sexy but violently emo vampires), but that’s not my favorite. [...]
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Renae
Jul 11
|16:59
Important point boiled down to simple, easy to understand concepts: Dogs and Smurfs; Why women writers and stories about women are taken less seriously, by Max Barry
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Renae
Jun 14
|14:42
I’ve had this website knocking around on my hard drive for a while now, and I’m finally putting it up. This is insanely exciting, not because it’s all that as far as websites go, but because it finally means I’m getting ready to start querying. Let me spell this out: I’ve written a book! (Okay, [...]
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