Review by Martina Robinson As a reader, I appreciate authors who make me work a little to truly understand their material. Drive me to the dictionary to learn an obscure word. Inspire me to use Google to comprehend their reference. I’m one of those women who, instead of saying, “You had me at hello,” is…
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Bi Sci Fi: Thicker than Blood
By Robyn Ochs When Avery Vanderlyle decided to get serious about writing erotica and romance, she looked for small presses with calls for submissions. “Rather than submit a novel and hope the publisher would like it, I searched on the web until I found topics that interested me for planned anthologies,” she explained. “As a bi woman,…
A Conversation with Author Meredith Maran
By Robyn Ochs A few weeks after it came out, I dove into Meredith Maran’s first novel, A Theory of Small Earthquakes. I was very excited, as one of her nonfiction books, What’s It Like to Live Now, was a favorite and one of the first books I read in which the author explicitly and…
Bending the Limit
By Faith Cheltenham While reading A Year Straight: Confessions of a Boy-Crazy Lesbian Beauty Queen by Elena Azzoni, I kept wishing I had read it a decade ago when I began college. Like Elena, I was originally socialized into lesbian culture though I was unsure what exact slot I fit into. With my desire for…
REVIEW: Twilight of the Immortal Shines a Clear Light by Marilyn Jaye Lewis
Review by MaryBell Austin Truth is often stranger than fiction – and sometimes more pleasing. If someone had told me a year ago that in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s women dominated the nascent movie industry, I would have suspected them of having a bad case of feminist historical revisionism. But then I read…
REVIEW: Love in Abundance: A Counselor’s Advice on Open Relationships, by Kathy Labriola
Review by Debbie Block-Schwenk When Love in Abundance arrived in the mail for me to review, I told my husband, “Now I’ll find out what we’ve been doing wrong all these years.” It was only partly a joke. This straightforward and practical book is full of good advice, whether one is in an open relationship…
REVIEW: GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens
(Second Edition, by Kelly Huegel; Free Spirit Publishing, 2011) Review by Ellyn Ruthstrom If you are looking for a resource for a teen in your life in search of information about being LGBTQ, this book has a lot to offer. It does a very good job of covering questions related to different aspects of coming…
REVIEW: Complementary Colors by Kate Evans
( 2010; Vanilla Heart Publishing ) Review by Lara Zielinsky Gwen Sullivan is restless. There are many signs that her life no longer fits her, or she no longer fits it. She returned from a year abroad in Japan teaching English to a boyfriend, Daniel, who seems more involved with his post-doc research than he…
REVIEW: Beleaguered Oases by Ann Tweedy
Review by Lena Judith Drake When I received my review copy of Ann Tweedy’s Beleaguered Oases, I sincerely hoped that I would enjoy the poetry, because did not want to write a scathing critique. I was not disappointed. In fact, I devoured these beleaguered poems while furiously taking notes about my future review on the…
REVIEW: Frost Moon, Book One: The Skindancer series, by Anthony Francis
(Bell Bridge Books, 2010) Reviewed by Lara Zielinsky Dakota Frost is the Southeast’s most famous magical tattoo artist. Also a Skin Dancer, she can make the tattoos on her body writhe and even do magical battle. When old friends of her father’s on the Atlanta P.D. and federal investigators from the Department of Extraordinary Investigations…