cityofrockfordillinois asked:

Hello! Was Last Night at The Telegraph Club ever published with a matte dust jacket like A Scatter of Light? I love both and would like to have them match on my bookshelf if possible. Thank you for all of your great writing and for sharing it with the world!

Hi! I’m so happy to hear you loved both books! In the US, the hardcover edition of Last Night at the Telegraph Club has a shinier dust jacket, whereas the US hardcover of A Scatter of Light has a more matte dust jacket. Is that what you’re talking about? I don’t think there’s any plan right now to issue a new dust jacket for the US hardcover of Telegraph Club, but the paperback has a matte cover. Usually once a publisher publishes a hardcover book, that’s the only hardcover edition that will ever be published. Paperbacks sometimes get their covers changed, but that’s also pretty rare. Thanks for writing in!

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not enough people are talking about the fact that andor has the first on screen main openly gay characters in star wars. no more lesbians in the back of TROS, no more “canonized in the books.” they’re two lesbians in the rebellion with complex stories of their own and an interesting relationship. it’s a huge deal. two women, one of them non-white. like….andor is for the gays. we won this time. we actually won.

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Ruby Cruz as Princess Kit & Erin Kellyman as Jade in WILLOW (2022 - PRESENT) Season 1, Episode 1: The Gales

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EPISODE 1 (ONE!!) of the new Willow series on Disney+. I literally screamed!

So, when I was a kid, I loved the Willow movie. I can’t remember much about it though except that I was kind of obsessed with Sorcha and her black armor. So color me shocked out of my mind when I watched episode 1 of the new Willow series and this happened! With Sorcha’s daughter! I literally could not believe it.

Also I think I wrote an entire fantasy novel when I was 13 that was pretty much ripped from the plot of Willow (the movie) except it focused entirely on Sorcha.

(I haven’t watched the original Willow movie since I was a kid so I have no idea if the movie was actually about Sorcha or not … I suspect it wasn’t … but in my memory it was the Sorcha movie. Val Kilmer was a sidekick. I don’t even remember who Willow, the title character, was!

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I really can't get over Twitter people being like 'it's time to bring back tumblr' as if it were dead.

Like opening their long abandoned dumpster and finding a vast racoon society thriving.

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Is it weird that when I came back here I immediately felt a familiar sense of cozy homecoming? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ABOUT ME

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Since the beginning of October, I’ve visited so many great bookstores, not only for events but also to sign stock. Which means you can buy signed copies of A Scatter of Light, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, and some of my other books too at many places across the U.S. Some of these bookstores will even ship internationally. And the holidays are coming! I humbly suggest that a signed book (by me) would make a great gift for that girl you want to impress! Here’s where you can get them:

Porter Square Books — This is the only place where you can get personalized copies. All you have to do is add your personalization request (e.g. “To Aria”) in the comments field when you order. Be sure to order from PSB by Dec. 2 if you want a personalization! After that I will go to the store to personalize them.

Signed copies of my books are also available from:

Please note that stock is not guaranteed; please check with each individual bookstore to find out what’s available.

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“Butch is a trickster gender—and so, in a similar way, is femme. Lesbian gender expressions do not emulate heteropatriarchy, they subvert it. Femme removes femininity from the discursive shadow of masculinity and thereby strips from it any connotation of subordination or inferiority. Butch takes markers of “masculinity” and divests them of their association with maleness or manhood. Butchness works against the gender binary—the masculine/feminine paradigm—and reclaims for women the full breadth of possibilities when it comes to gender expression.”

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Caroline Narby, “On My Butchness” (The Toast)

I thought this was so spot-on, thoughtful, and well-written.

malindalo

People have been reblogging this since 2014! Which amazes me and also I clicked on the link and I’m sad the original essay is gone because now I want to reread it.

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For people who want to read the full essay, it was captured on the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160520063417/http://the-toast.net/2014/09/22/on-my-butchness/

malindalo

^^^ I knew someone would find it somewhere! Just reread it and it was worth it.

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“Butch is a trickster gender—and so, in a similar way, is femme. Lesbian gender expressions do not emulate heteropatriarchy, they subvert it. Femme removes femininity from the discursive shadow of masculinity and thereby strips from it any connotation of subordination or inferiority. Butch takes markers of “masculinity” and divests them of their association with maleness or manhood. Butchness works against the gender binary—the masculine/feminine paradigm—and reclaims for women the full breadth of possibilities when it comes to gender expression.”

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Caroline Narby, “On My Butchness” (The Toast)

I thought this was so spot-on, thoughtful, and well-written.

malindalo

People have been reblogging this since 2014! Which amazes me and also I clicked on the link and I’m sad the original essay is gone because now I want to reread it.

jennenen asked:

As a teacher, I always like asking authors what’s the last book you totally geeked out about and what are you dying to get your hands on next?

Also, thank you for your beautiful books..

Aww, thanks! Let me tell you about YERBA BUENA by Nina LaCour. you may know Nina’s YA novels (WE ARE OKAY) already, but this is her adult debut. It’s about two women and their relationship over a period of several years. It’s also about connections to family (there’s a wonderful grandmother in here), survival from trauma, and also has just plain beautiful sentences. I loved it!

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FROM BESTSELLING AND PRINTZ-AWARD WINNING AUTHOR NINA LACOUR, PERFECT FOR READERS OF WRITERS AND LOVERS“A study of complex, modern love…Expe
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