Honestly, I’m thrilled for her. It seems like in interviews with her since The Host and Breaking Dawn were released, she was working on a different book each time (first it was a dark mermaid book, then a fantasy, then sequels to the Host). I started to get the impression that the popularity, backlash, and personal…

As a counterpoint, I just want to repost my original respose to this:

Full disclosure: In a past life I was pursing a career with the ultimate goal of editing YA novel, so I’m predisposed to like tehm.

THAT SAID, I had to put down the book after the blank chapters because it hit waaaaay too close to home for me. I had a few breakups where I considered getting out of bed in the morning…

Isn’t it funny how shitty male writers who achieve huge success never, ever seem to cop as much shit as Stephenie Meyer... or literally any other women. Hmmm funny how that works.

The posts of the past few days, about the woman selling towel clips or whatever, about Milania Giudice, and about the successful novelist here, not to mention the long line of posts about Lena Dunham, Amy Pascal, Gwyneth Paltrow, etc... What is the point of this level of wishing ill upon other women (and in the…

Stephanie Meyer is insanely beautiful. The Twilight books weren’t excellent (The Host was better) but I love her for some reason. She’s just so damn adorable to me.

Sorry Mark, Stephenie Meyer is my friend

MURTAGH FOR PRESIDENT.

"I personally didn't care for the wacky hijinks music, and hearing Ron Moore talk about how all the women in the writers room wanted to make the scene darker but were overruled made me suuuuuper ragey."

Ungrayed because this is a very thoughtful and articulate response and also this:

I feel so bad for Sam Heughan. The stuff people were tweeting to him on Saturday was beyond cray-cray! Like really inappropriate things that I may think in private or write on this blog but I'd never say let alone tweet to another person unless we were in a relationship!

I hated this scene in the book. I understand what she was going for but I think it's poorly written and large parts of it are OOC for both of them. It feels very much like Diana Gabaldon swinging her "I'm not one of those uncool PC authors" stick around and it's annoying.

I hadn't read the books when I gave the show a try. When I happened upon the book excerpt of the spanking scene, I knew I wasn't going to watch any more. I found it so, so, so fucked up. She's just been kidnapped and almost raped (TWICE if you count those soldiers in the field) and then the dude who's supposed to love…

So, as the world was gearing up for Outlanders return, I asked my Facebook feed if it was something I needed to watch. I've never read the books and even though everyone has been raving about the series, I never got into it. But I saw all the positive, feminist-y articles and when my Facebook feed shouted YES at me, I…

I have read a bunch of analyses of this scene this weekend and a few months ago after I read the book and no one seems to bring up the thing that bothers me the most about this whole thing.

To me she didn't need to include that bit seeing as she really did not research it to see if it was historically accurate, she said it was historically accurate and yes spousal abuse did happen back then but it was not as common as she said it was and she didn't have to romanticize it. . The author is an awful person…

I thought the only misstep in that scene was the music choice - it was bouncy and playful and made the whole thing seem playful. its a serious moment in their relationship, not two people engaging in a consensual act.

I started reading Jennifer Crusie in the last 6 years or so. I reread most of them at least once a year. I liked the age and attitude of the protagonists. I also liked that the men were like real men, they were flawed and made mistakes and were many times, just a bit shady. :)

In terms of movie adaptations? Yeah. Hollywood is far more likely to adapt straight genre SF than straight genre romance. Now, basically EVERYTHING in Hollywood has romantic elements, but that's not the same thing as a genre romance novel, which means something very specific.

I think the popularity of some of these works, whether they're good or bad, points to something that's lacking in the current movie market. It seems like there were plenty of romantic dramas in the 30s and 40s. I don't know when they went out of style, but they were mostly gone by the time I was a kid in the 80s.…