eek - second paragraph should read "The issue of female CHARACTERS" - apologies!

Simone leaving Fury of Firestorm is supposedly by choice, so I don't know that we can blame DC for that, but regardless of that the stats for their female creators are straight up shameful. They have brought Ann Nocenti on to write Green Arrow (which I will be checking out) but the situation is pretty grim.

Well said!

I join you in the land of stupidest comment ever.

haha. Hearted for using one of my favorite expressions ever. I'd honestly be curious to hear what you think if you read the piece on him from Jez/Daily Mail.

That's me, ruining thing for people since just about ever! ;)

Also (and I don't mean to harp on it...but I just have huge problems with this movie) this film had an uphill climb with me from go as one of the opening lines (if not THE opening line?) is:

And here's the link...to the Jez piece which also has a link to the original interview.

Yeah, as I said to @Clare116 - I might have been able to accept that in the film if not for an interview I read (that I found originally through Jez back in the day).

I might have been able to buy that if I hadn't read an interview/article with the writer that made it abundantly clear that he in no way did anything that nuanced on purpose.

I liked Roberts in that film but could not stand Diaz, so it ended up not working for me...but I agree that it's a similar theory. Didn't work for me, but same idea.

Yeah, I don't think progress here should be defined as "female versions of the man-child". I'm all for layered flawed nuanced characters (male and female). I'd love to see more of that and I'd also just like to see a wider spectrum of characters - for the horrible to the saintly and everything in between - but the…

Oh man. This made me seriously happy. I think I'm even tearing up...which is...not really a thing I do. I'm either even more tired than I thought or this is just that great.

Ironically the agent thing was kind of easy for me (well, in comparison to many stories I've heard)...but we worked together on my book for 2 years before deciding to shelve it temporarily. We in part shelved it because of my resistance to change stuff that I thought was important but kept it from being "YA enough". …

Man, I love the optimism and happiness of the younger one. Such a good sport, finding the silver lining in everything. Wish I could bottle that. Sadly, then and now, I'm more the girl with the onion.

Shut up Hollywood.

Interesting. So did you actually self-publish your book? If so, where can I find it?

Man, this is the third article about wildly successful self-publishing that I have read in as many days.

But it's SO hard to separate them!

AHHHHH! I knew about many/most of these, and am surprised by only a few.