Posted in feminism, publishing on Sep 18th, 2008
from publisher Debbie Rasmussen:
First the bad news: The print publishing industry as a whole is staring into a void. Across the board, newsstand magazine sales are in a slump, subscriber numbers are down, and paper and postal costs continue to rise. But it’s not magazines like US Weekly or Vogue that you’ll see disappearing from [...]
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Posted in publishing on Jul 8th, 2008
Kasia writes:
Debauchette and I are finally coming to the point of being able to launch a project we’ve been working on over the past couple of years. We’re in LA, staying at the Chateau Marmont, in the suite that Helmut Newton lived in to put the last touches on and move forward to our debut.
Here’s [...]
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Posted in erotica, publishing on Jan 22nd, 2008
Title: Best Women’s Erotica 2009
Editor: Violet Blue
Publisher: Cleis Press
Deadline: May 1st, 2008
Please note: Publisher has final right of refusal on all submissions. Payment is upon publication, plus 2 copies of the book; pub date is November 2008.
Best Women’s Erotica is a legendary and groundbreaking yearly series, and is the best-selling women’s erotica collection, period. Every [...]
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Posted in publishing, queer, radio on Jan 22nd, 2008
Edited by: Sassafras Lowrey**
Publisher: Homofactus Press
Deadline: March 1, 2008
Kicked Out is an anthology, which chronicles the experiences of former queer youth and current queer youth who were forced to leave home as minors because of their sexuality and/or gender identity.
Kicked Out tells our collective stories of survival, weaving together descriptions of abuse, and homelessness with [...]
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Posted in book, gather.com, publishing on May 10th, 2007
Remember that short story I posted, The Great Passover Rebellion of 1963 about working mothers who weren’t going to take it anymore?
Candy Korman, the author, wrote me to thank me for linking to her story. She also let me know that she is a finalist in Gather.com’s First Chapters Writing competition. It’s kind [...]
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Posted in media, publishing, sex on Mar 4th, 2007
…It wasn’t so long ago that the male collegians of America hid their copies of Playboy deep inside their sock drawers, and the naked women tucked therein were glamorous, unknowable princesses from a media empire far, far away. These days, when anyone can run a virtual media empire out of a dorm room, student-generated sex [...]
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Call for submissions: Best Sex Writing 2008To be edited by Rachel Kramer BusselPublication date: November 2007Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2007
Email: bestsexwriting2008@gmail.com
Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel is looking for personal essays and reportage for inclusion in the 2008 edition of Best Sex Writing, which will hit stores in November 2007. Seeking articles from across the sexual [...]
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Editor: Maria AngelinePublisher: Merge PressSubmissions Deadline: March 15, 2007Anticipated Publication Date: Spring 2008
Femmes are still invisible. Society can’t see past our heels to hear our stories, so we must continue to build platforms for our voices. Visible: A Femmethology, a forthcoming anthology about the power and complications in presenting femme as a gender and breaking [...]
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