Woman on Woman on Content

  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...

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...