missed the entire point of human advancement through peace and knowledge in favor of explosions and lensflares.

I write romance. Condom use is a constant quandary in the same-sex romance circles as well as in the heterosexual ones. There are arguments that it throws the reader out of the story, that it's preachy, that readers just don't want to be bothered with the less fun things about sex. Then you get into paranormal and SF…

There's a story that deals with that in Alan Ryan's Vampyres anthology. (I also strongly recommend The Mindworm and Shambleu from it) and of course, Eccarius' Last Days of Christ the Vampire

actually for me the response is "This god just killed 1/3 of everyone, made 70 lb hailstones fall out of the sky, caused famines and plagues, and instigated a bloodbath that left a 200 mile stain, with high-blood marks of 4'? And he wants me to LOVE him? No thanks. I don't do psychopaths."

I think a year is a better gauge, especially with seasonal stuff. No, I haven't worn my my Halloween socks or tee-shirts in 6 months. But I will come fall. (of course that falls under "fits and looks great")

Now I need to go watch it for the leather jacket and shades and "It's just body work" scene.

I still have the Star Wars sheet like the one that dress is made out of. (I used to keep it in my sleeper berth when I drove for Falcon.)

My son is 13Mike and he loves giving the 88Ms static. But not too much, because Mama's an old trucker herself. 3D food printers. Sigh.

We're not terribly organized. Check Fangs for the Fantasy, they're a social justice blog for the genre community. (I got knocked for having one character think of his sons as finding Ms Right or Mr. Right Now)

Check your small presses: Apex, Jupiter Garden/Pink Petal, Parker Publishing, Inkstained Succubus. Apex's…

I firmly agree. However, I'm feeling rather cheated by NOT having feelies and orgy-porgy sessions and plenty of gammas, deltas and epsilons to look down on.

I am a former Dominionist. Believe me when I say there are people actively working toward this future, at every level, from local churches convincing girls the Pill is an abortifacient (A line I first heard in 1987) to several prominant rightist voices questioning whether women should even vote.

Some of us consider having the counter-lists to hand—including women in SF—as part of the counter-offensive on the cultural hegemony.

Yes, we—women, people of faith, disabled, etc—are underrepesented. And those of us who care ARE working to correct it. But the fact remains that western publishing and media are owned…

I use it for a variety of things: recipes, crafts, writing tools, tracking the books and movies I consume and the crafts I make each year. I use it as a photo album for novel-casting, and to find weird and unusual ideas for stories. I use it to find new and interesting things about my faith. I like Pinterest a lot.

I use my middle initial in my formal signature. But my first name is 7 letters, as is my last, and that's a lot of name for a writer.

I looked at it sideways, I'll admit. Heimdall is a Norse god, still worshiped. Casting a black actor in the part seemed analogous to casting Papa Legba as Chinese or Kali as a freckled redhead. I had to approach the movie as pure fiction (let's face it, Hiddleson is not the Loki I know and quarrel with either). And…

The list is not exhaustive, or worldwide. This is me, white-girl small press writer in the South, coming up with titles off the top of my head, in less than 5 minutes. I don't know where the writers of color are. Writing literature or romance (Urban romance is a BIG genre)?

Steamfunk would be a place to start with African/Afircan American characters. Orgy of Souls by Maurice Broaddus and Wrath James White. West of Sunset by Dennis Upkins.

I edited the book with the immigrant elves... And my pixies were about to ride corgis (ordinary ones) on a Wild Hunt. I'm a little chagrined.

I have always been confused by the idea that Middle Easterners and Jews aren't white. This idea keeps taking me aback. The EEOC backs me up, They're ethnic white, the same way Celts and Norse and Slavs are ethnic, but I've never understood them as anything else. Maybe it was growing up with half-Lebanese stepsisters.…

Oh, absolutely!