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Are you ready for a new kind of heroine?

All week we’ve talked about the antihero and how it relates to women and the representations of women in literature, film, television and media. We’ve teamed up with Anne Chaconas (ABC) to provide four days of back and forth blog posts on our thoughts on this. Need to catch up? Scroll to the bottom for [...]

Are you ready for a new kind of heroine?2021-11-15T20:58:28+00:00

Success: It's Not Just For Men

As a girl, you can climb a mountain, but only if you look sexy doing it. And DO NOT emote. It will make you ugly, thereby invalidating all other contributions you might make to humanity. Growing up I wanted to be a boy. Scratch that. I didn't want to be a boy so [...]

Success: It's Not Just For Men2021-11-15T20:58:29+00:00

Let's hear it for the anti-hero!

Who doesn't love the bad boy? They are often the most interesting characters. Most of us grew up rooting for the 'good guy.' Cheering on the hero. Imagining ourselves in the role of saving the world and defeating (or riding) the dragon! But the bad boy (or girl) is equally worthy of our time and [...]

Let's hear it for the anti-hero!2021-11-15T20:58:29+00:00

When the Heart Falls cover reveal and giveaway!

See the Tour stops at the bottom Best-Selling Author Team Karpov Kinrade has changed the face of their books as well as their readers experience When the Heart Falls (Formerly Kiss Me In Paris), is changing the face of ebooks! The author team of Karpov Kinrade has included a new user function that gives the [...]

When the Heart Falls cover reveal and giveaway!2021-11-15T20:58:30+00:00

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.

This morning we read an article by Neil Gaiman (a beloved favorite author of ours), called Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming. We encourage you to read this article as well as it emphatically and enthusiastically shares the reasons why reading fiction is so very important, for children and adults and all [...]

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.2021-11-15T20:58:33+00:00

Censorship or Discrimination in Publishing: What's Really Going On?

We woke up this morning to discover that the entire Seduced Saga and Kiss Me in Paris have been pulled from Kobo during a company-wide sweep in which they unpublished all books that had been uploaded through Draft2Digital, among other places. At this point, we haven't been told directly WHY Kobo unpublished EVERYTHING from EVERYWHERE, [...]

Censorship or Discrimination in Publishing: What's Really Going On?2021-11-15T20:58:33+00:00
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