Eh, it mattered enough for you to write back. Either way, if you actually read Milan tweets,

I feel like I’ve read that article before, but it didn’t show up in my browser history. I have MS, so my short-term memory is 50-50, but I guess Kelly’s article and others I have read over the last year or so culminated in that Guardian piece (that or I forgot I read it somewhere else). It was a good read, and as an…

Milan is a gem. I read one of her books a few weeks ago and during the deflowering scene (always one in victorian novels) the girl told her new husband that he did sex wrong.  It was amazing.  She then showed him how to do it right and then the next time it was better. 

Speaking of losers, look at the brand new account who’s only here to defend the RWA and whine about women/non-whites being added to video games.

Agreed, and definitely check out the Guardian article linked above because it’s also excellent. My jaw literally dropped several times while reading it.

Thank you so much Kelly for writing about this! I’ve been following along on Twitter, and it’s been a shit show since day 1. I honestly don’t know how the RWA is going to survive this and suspect that it will have to close down soon. 

Co-signed, I came here to say this specifically.

Psst, I’m part of the RWA, and I wrote about it here, with links to the people who are involved,and my twitter also shows a pretty good timeline of how the board of the online suspense chapter, KOD, essentially decided to dismantle the chapter rather than put out a statement taking a stand against racism and…

None of this surprises me. My wife and are friends with a couple of RWA members, and were friends with another. As writers ourselves (non-romance) we’ve been to a handful of RWA events with our RWA friends and there is an odd sort of toxic pleasantness that the writers seem to exhibit towards one another. The way they…

Yeah, this was one of the best and most thorough rundowns of the whole controversy I’ve seen. 

This was a very good read. Thank you, Kelly.

I didn’t have a lot of time so I only scanned this story.

I love Milan and Cole both as humans and as authors. Thank you for unwinding all this madness, I was having a hard time following everything on Twitter.

thank you Kelly for this piece! i saw the initial tweets during the holidays about RWA, then the mainstream outlets started posting explainers of what was really going down behind the scenes, and it’s just...fascinating to get a look into an org/world I’ve never really considered, I guess

22. When will Poe and Finn kiss?

Particularly since they’re kids’ shoes. They’re going to grow out of them in like 45 seconds. So no, these shoes are not OK. $90 shoes for kids are not OK in pretty much any context. 

Fucking bullshit.

Why does “me too” have to be “we too” before people are investigated? When will single accusations be heard and treated with respect?

Perotta leads the reader to think that most of the main characters will have sort-of happy endings and then ruins it for most of them in the last chapter. The worst (SPOILER FOR ANYONE WHO MAY CARE) is that at the start of the book Eve gets some anonymous obscene texts that say “you’re my milf” etc, but nothing is…