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utsusemia: Gay YA: a question of intent
Systemic issues in publishing, not necessarily due to overt or even subtle homophobia on the part of any one person, still at every level of the process prevent YA with queer main and secondary characters from being published, and being supported when published.
nf  YesGayYA  books  diversity 
september 2011 by esther_a
I have numbers! Stats on LGBT Young Adult Books Published in the U.S. – Updated 9/15/11
On Monday I noted that in light of this post from two authors who were asked by an agent to de-gay their book, I was planning to do some statistics wrangling and see if I could quantify some of what’s happening in LGBT YA publishing.
nf  YesGayYA  diversity  lgbt  books 
september 2011 by esther_a
copperbadge: Ugh. I'm not going out today. It's not r
There's a dragon on the cover of the book.
There's a dragon on the cover of the book.
He is long and green and scaly,
but he's nowhere in the tale. He
is a dragon on the cover of the book.
nf  books  -Filk 
july 2011 by esther_a
bookshop: Bad Romance (or, YA & Rape Culture)
Hush, Hush is the story of a Bad Romance: quite literally, the heroine is caught in a bad romance with a stalker who shows up, will not leave her alone, refuses to leave her life, and tries to kill her. All of this is made acceptable by the fact that he's hot.
nf  books  feminism  id:bookshop  -Meta 
january 2011 by esther_a
The Memory Palace - Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories TOC
Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories will be published by Torquere Press in December 2010
nf  wishlist  steampunk  books  check_later 
september 2010 by esther_a
the internet is my prosthetic brain - Another random question
What are the first appearances of soulbonds* in SF/F?

Because I'm pretty sure fandom didn't invent this trope.
nf  soulbonds  books  meta:fic_genres  -Fandom  -Meta 
august 2010 by esther_a
Main Page - Gutenberg
Conan Doyle, Wodehouse, Trollope, Burroughs,
Raffles
books  ebooks  nf 
january 2008 by esther_a
fictionrants
Because published != good.
comm  books  snark  nf  'LJ 
october 2007 by esther_a
Canonrants
When the real author is just as bad..
comm  books  snark  nf  'LJ 
october 2007 by esther_a
The Gold Bat by P. G. Wodehouse - Project Gutenberg
Download the free eBook: The Gold Bat by P. G. Wodehouse
Wodehouse ebooks!
books  ebooks  nf  f:Wodehouse 
october 2007 by esther_a
My books
LibraryThing catalogs yours books online, easily, quickly and for free.
books  presence  nf 
september 2007 by esther_a

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