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Electra Rex

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  Full disclosure, this is my book, and thus not a review, but just me talking about my latest project. Fun story about this book: I sold it twice and very quickly both times. Another fun fact: it started out as a NaNoWriMo book! I sold this book the first time to Less Than 3 Press --a small, indie press in North Carolina that boasted lesbian/sapphic books and stories with only happy endings. It took three weeks to get the thumbs up from them, which was by far the fastest I've sold a book. It went through edits, proofs, and even got a cover mockup before Less Than 3 folded after a decade in business. Woops. I got the rights back a couple months later, tried to cope with my disappointment, and then submitted it again to Pride Publishing , part of the Totally Entwined Group, and this time the book sold in less than a week. I have to give a lot of credit to the editor I worked with at Less Than 3 for making the book much, much better--you rock, James! I have no doubt going through the
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I Care a Lot

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Lets start with a quick kudos to this movie for having a lesbian protagonist, in a loving relationship, in a movie where getting together, coming out, or being lesbians has nothing to do with the plot. Straight people get this all the time--queer people, not so much. So it's nice to see a relationship between two women being in a movie without being the reason for the movie. Well done, I like, I love it, I want more of it! Recap: Marla, played by Rosamund Pike, is a court appointed guardian for the elderly and she uses this position to drain retirees of their remaining funds and funnel the money into her own pockets via the usual kickback chains. She has a doctor who sends new "clients" her way who sends her someone seemingly too good to be true. Turns out this new mark isn't who she seems and badness ensues. I watched this movie last night with my girlfriend after we started and quit on Aquaman after 20 minutes. She had work to do and I planned to dink on my phone, b
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Knights of the Old Republic #TBT

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Knights of the Old Republic #TBT Game I'm going all the way back to 2003 for this one. The woman on woman content is...limited, but it was a step in gaming and an important one. The first, and most of the attempts afterward, toward LGBT representations in Triple A gaming was made by Bioware. They jumped in fully with Jade Empire and then decided same sex relationships were worth regular inclusion in the Dragon Age and Mass Effect franchises. The fact that there are way more LGBT characters in Star Wars video games than in the movies is irritating. How many more? Infinity percent more since there are some in the games and none in the movies. But that's a rant for later. The gameplay is fun, not quite turn based strategy, although you can turn that feature on if you'd like, but it's also not a true real-time action game. In traditional RPG fashion, you kill monsters, complete quests, gain experience, upgrade stats, gain new skills, and improve gear. There'
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Karen Memory

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Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear Book **Disclaimer: I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm not a book blogger. That particular job requires a lot more work and dedication to a specific media than I'm willing to do. So please, please, please, please direct review requests to the actual book bloggers, which is not me.** I'm a reader and I'll do what I call reviewing on the things I've read if they match the blog's stated purpose of guiding women who love women to content that matches that description, and Karen Memory fits! Full disclosure, I am into steampunk, and I am part of a prestigious steampunk writing lineage, so I do have some clout in the genre based on who I was trained by, but also a built in bias for the genre . While you're all in awe, or confused and wondering who taught me to write, I'm going to proceed to lavish a fair amount of praise on this book. The story follows Karen Memery (not a typo--the charact
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Choices: Stories You Play

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  Choices: Stories You Play Tablet/Phone Game from Pixelberry Studios If you're Gen-X you'll probably remember the joy of Choose Your Own Adventure books. They were short, fun, and gave you a strange sense of license over reading, which is normally a passive experience. Sure, most of the choices led to grisly deaths, but that just meant I got to use TWO bookmarks like holding an old save game file back in case of emergency. I've always loved collecting and using bookmarks. Total win-win. Choices is one of roughly a billion apps trying to recreate the experience of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. There are Episodes and Chapters and Experiences and...I'm really not going to play and review all of them, mostly because that would take time out of playing Choices. Emily, coming in hot! Let's talk gameplay! ...yeah, there isn't much, but who cares? It's a reading game. There are a few timed thingies, memory tests, and matching, but these
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Below Her Mouth

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Below Her Mouth (2016)  Movie I'm not going to full on review or rate this movie since I didn't finish it. I guess that would make the rating:   As for why I didn't finish it...I don't like Ethan Zuko characters. If that name doesn't mean anything to you, that's okay, it shouldn't... yet . It's my own term that I use for a lesbian character that could easily be replaced by Ethan Hawke from any mid 90s movie role and/or Danny Zuko from Grease and the movie or TV show would be functionally unchanged, thus, an Ethan Zuko. An Ethan Zuko is basically what a teenage boy thinks is the coolest thing to be. They typically don't care about anything, but are super into telling everyone they don't care, they wear a lot of black (often the same clothes/underwear waaaaay too often), they'll have a ride that would be considered super cool by a 16-year-old boy trying to get his license, random tattoos of varying importance, a mop of hair th
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Imagine Me & You #TBT

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Imagine Me & You (#TBT) 2005   I'm going to admit my fangirl joy over this movie. I'll admit it's fluff, stars two gay-for-pay actresses, it's directed by a man, but I don't care, because it's classic romantic comedy in the Billy Wilder mold and that's something fun and enjoyable. Women are the primary consumers of romantic comedies so shouldn't there be great romantic comedies for women who like women? Or even mediocre ones? Does every movie have to push some envelope somewhere? To answer in order: hell yes!/ if we can't get the great ones / Michael Bay wouldn't have a job otherwise If you haven't seen the movie and don't want anything spoiled. Stop now, watch the trailer if you're not sold, and then go enjoy the film. Let's talk cast... The Ladies: Piper Perabo (Rachel) + Lena Headey (Luce)--this is really where all the magic happens. There's some other stuff with the parents and the friends and random
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