Perhaps one of the reasons I rarely deal in repeating characters is that I’d have to remember all the things that happened to them before.
Dialogue and Sex and Curious Readers
Nobody asks if you play the violin, can construct a 7-layer wedding cake, run marathons, create fine art, practice patent law, sing jazz, or solve quadratic equations for fun.
The Country of Lesbian Fiction – Bring Your Own Map
I know that some people mean it pejoratively when they say uber or fanfic, just as some mean it pejoratively when they say romance. I’d like to go on record that if I use those terms I’m only trying to clarify the landscape in question, not create unbreachable boundaries or imply tribal hierarchies.
To Publish or Tell a Good Story?
The woman who sees in my books an affirmation of who she is and her right to basic respect and hope in her life…
Becoming Jane, Thoughts
The film’s treatment of the basic questions that face writers, and especially women writers, is gently provocative.