Lit agents and publishers often release (or make posts to) a Manuscript Wish List. I figure turnabout is fair play, don't you ( Read more... )

I won't be quitting my day job, but it was nice to have this arrive in yesterday's mail.


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It's Here! My Second Book is in Print!

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That Guy in Our Women's Studies Class
is now in print and available for ordering (amazon link; other purchase links listed farther downscreen)


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I have a book that should have an impact on other gender inverts like me.

Problem is, they don't think of themselves as gender inverts. I chose that term because there wasn't an existing term to express my gender identity. Same with more colloquial equivalents like male girl and male femme. It's not like there are others who are already using ( Read more... )

The Whitman Wire, student newspaper of Whitman College (Walla Walla WA) has published a review of GenderQueer!

“GenderQueer: A Story from a Different Closet” explores the complexity of genderBecause I figured that my book would be of particular relevance to the college communities, both students and faculty, I solicited reviews from student ( Read more... )

GenderKitten.com

"Authors", they told me, "are expected to have a web site".

"Oh, no problem, I've had my own web site since 1995", I replied ( Read more... )

Having given approval to the formatted manuscript and the covers (back and front), I've now effectively switched effort-gears from "getting book published" to "getting people to read the book", even though it hasn't rolled off the Sunstone Books presses yet ( Read more... )

Los Alamos NM is where the first third of my story takes place, covering the critical years of puberty and adolescence when questions of gender and sexual orientation emerge from a person's negotiations towards adult sexual expression ( Read more... )

I feel a little bit like an air traveler whose plane has reached the destination city area and now the plane is circling round and round in a holding pattern, waiting for their turn to use the runway. I had a little bit of a suggestion from the editor about the types of changes that would be requested, so back in July I did some preliminary edits ( Read more... )

My book, The Story of Q: A GenderQueer Tale, is scheduled to be published by NineStar Press on November 27 of this year. This year is, coincidentally, also 40 years since I graduated from high school, and therefore the 40th reunion is imminent, scheduled for September 23. I haven't been to a reunion since the 10th in 1987 but it's too ( Read more... )