December 2010
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Roy Orbison, “Uptown”
(Putting my...
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Are we terrible (making money off books)
God, we could have kept so much more of the money you helped us raise for Coming & Crying than we did.
At the very beginning, the concept was an intervention on publishing. I joked that one of the leading figures/punching bags in indie book publishing would never deign to put out a book on sex unless they could give it some twee title, like “Coming & Crying.” Why was I even...
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“The compilation of MELiSSA technologies remains work in progress. As research...”
– MELISSA (via meaghano)
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“Melissa Gira Grant used the micropatronage website Kickstarter to publish a book...”
– Start Me Up, on Coming & Crying by Emily Gould in/behind the paywall at the Technology Review. (Is 1200 books sold in 3 months or so “small”? Who knows anymore! But definitely ardent. Somewhat to her credit, Emily didn’t factcheck sales figures with us.)
Christmas. It will be like this, and making pies...
Christmas. It will be like this, and making pies...
Watch“Group of Sex Workers Calls for End to Violence” (story on International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, Dec 17 2010, NYC, by NBCNewYork)
note-a-bear:
I’m trying to figure out a respectful way to say this that doesn’t usurp anyone’s struggles.
Short, hastily thought out form: I feel incredibly privileged and honored to have just been at the International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers Vigil in NYC as someone who is attempting to be an ally.
So, yeah, there’s that. This will probably be all I say on it as I have a place...
rickwebb:
Wow. Okay. This is kind of amazing. I read Selena Kitt. She’s kinda fun. I even actually purchased one of these books that Amazon has banned and pulled from the kindle. I had no idea until reading this that something I purchased from Amazon has been TAKEN BACK FROM ME.
What’s even more amazing is that the book - Under Mr. Nolan’s Bed - WAS RECOMMENDED TO ME BY...
“When some of my readers began checking their Kindle archives for books of mine...”
– The Self Publishing Revolution: Amazon in the Book Banning Business
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“We all have feelings and we all like to fuck. How that looks is going to be...”
– Samhita, at Feministing
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“Winter Wonderland,” Cocteau Twins
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The opposite of Bookscan on Amazon (and you don't...
We would just get emails from Sam at McNally Jackson every few weeks saying, “We’ve sold out. Can we have another box?”
So that’s part of how we sold 1200 books: 651 in pre-sales over 45 days (Jan 15 - Mar 1) and the rest Sept 1 - Dec 9.
Hey let's write what we know (like the boys in...
Um, what if? What if repeated requests for non-reciprocal oral sex from dudes has been, for a lot of us who date dudes, a big and common reason to be angry about gender injustice? What if being with a guy who expects you to tend to his emotional and sexual needs, but neglects yours, is a common and frequent experience of gender injustice itself? What if this — having a partner with awesome...
“Love, Anonymously is intended to be a space for people to talk about the messier...”
– Some Notes on Love, Anonymously and Writing About Love and Sex Online, Racialicious (via cory silverberg)
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be-kavalier asked: Are there still editions of Coming & Crying left? I sent a lovely letter out a couple of weeks ago and I'm really excited to (perhaps) see a copy arrive at my door!
The name is Gaetan, just wondering if you got my letter!
Cheers.
The name is Gaetan, just wondering if you got my letter!
Cheers.
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These are the people I only see once a year, when I go out to pay tribute to myself in the form of saying hello to [former editor], which I call “paying tribute to myself” because I adore him and the time of my life in which I knew him, but truly, it is a nostalgia trip, unexpectedly threaded through with some of the people out doing the same. And some of them are quite lovely. I never...
“Frankly, if making “gender” a textbox puts some people off Diaspora entirely …...”
– David Gerard (via Dopp Juice)
I am (ed.: also) FB Friends with Melissa Petro...
sheilamcclear:
Oh, come on: if former-stripper-and-hooker—but more importantly, Bronx teacher—Melissa Petro is threatened with being out of a job for writing/blogging about her former exploits (paid or unpaid), then half of us girls should be out of a job.
“City officials are seeking to terminate hooker-turned-teacher Melissa Petro, who, while employed as a Bronx public school educator, openly...
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