We want black America to know we stand tall today. We will not be silencjoin the thousands of Americans using reverse mortgage as a safe, effective financial tool.

They think Kasich is “far right,” because they never venture outside and actually talk to people.

Hate to break It to you, but reality has a well known liberal bias. (I know that is a Stephen Colbert quote.) I'll leave it at that.

Tea part is far right.

Sanders supporters aren’t all that different from Ron Paul supports circa...oh...2010, before the Tea Party coopted the whole lot.

See, that’s the thing about Gawker commenters: they have no sense of what the rest of the country (or world) is like. They thing they are the happy-medium, right in the middle, and that anyone right of them is rightwing. In reality, they are in the left-most 5% of the body politic, and are completely wrong about where…

America doesn’t know what the left looks like. We think a person who doesn’t devote the majority of their time to legislating against abortion is axiomatically a leftist.

You know who had those hecklers removed? Barack Obama. If she has done that all manner of shit would’ve happened. Again, whether or not she was heckled as brazenly ISN’T THE POINT?!

For the last time: HILLARY HAS THE FUCKING SECRET SERVICE. Her events are screened much more than any other candidate. And why would you get angry that she actually sat down with BLM and held a conversation with them? That makes no sense. So your issue doesn't even seem to be about the way they did it, it seems to be…

“there are few legit agents who are men...the women agents gravitate toward what they like (and what will sell to their audience), which is either romance, sob stories, or other things under the “chick lit” banner.” As someone with 30 years of experience as an acquiring editor in trade publishing I can only say: what…

Because no one “serious” reads “women’s fiction” and everyone rolls their eyes at the “basic bitches” that do.

As some people know, the symphonic music world had a big problem getting women into the ranks of any major orchestras. Then, orchestras began implementing “blind auditions” where auditioning musicians played from behind screens. Orchestras became 50-50 men/women very quickly. (European orchestras who don’t use blind…

Because they aren’t writing books that would be accepted under classic ‘women’s fiction.’ The publishers would reject them as having written a book of a type they don’t sell.

Then you get stuck in the “women’s fiction” ghetto. “Women’s fiction” is not taken as seriously as a genre compared to “literary fiction” or just plain “contemporary fiction”, even though almost all “women’s fiction” basically is lit fic or contempo fic, only with girl cooties.

My name is Remi. Can go either way but it’s predominately male especially in Europee. When I went on vacation there and was making reservations I was treated far better by the places that referred to me as Mr. Remi (who I corresponded with only through email). Room upgrade, early check in, etc. Mrs. Remi was told if I…

I never tried short fiction. Every story inevitably grows. I'll look into this. Thanks!

I have four novels I’m working on, three of which are the first of a series. I never planned on putting my own name on any of them, except the children’s book. I always intended to use a name that could be a woman but would most likely be taken as a man. When I first decided to do this, it was more for privacy than…

The short fiction, lit mag and self publishing scene is WAY more inclusive. Mainstream however is not. If you want to break into mainstream, you almost HAVE to go undercover. I submit poetry and creative non fiction under my maiden name. When(if) my novel is finished my white good ol’ boy name is ready to slap on the…

As a woman writer with a very feminine name who is trying to make strides in the literary world, who is already overwhelmed and intimidated by finding representation and submitting to publishers, this was a fucking grim read. >:<

Well if it was good enough for George Sand and S.E. Hinton...