In my former review of Nia King’s work, I mentioned her media presence, via her website, tumblr, and her podcasts...
"[...] Sigmund and Anna Freud were enmeshed in the prejudices of a different world, one in which lesbianism was still thought of as a hysterical illness." Read More
Michael Cunningham: On Writing Sex, the Creative Process, and Why New York City is (Not) for Writers
"Eroticism is difficult to write about, I think, because everybody’s sense of the erotic is so personal, and so private. What’s hot to me might very well be repellent to you, and vice versa." Read More
"We’re not always in the best place to judge our own work. There’s a lot to be said for just making the book as good as you can, sending it out into the world and not worrying about it." Read More
"[...] writing fiction is indeed different from writing criticism. The process feels a lot less intentional. This will sound horribly mystical, but with fiction I’m not always aware exactly which part of me is making the decisions, which can be a little unsettling." Read More
"[...]I know for me, as a genderqueer writer, questioning established forms isn’t a question of transgression or challenging the reader, but of survival." Read More
"Life will proceed without you, and there is 'no ending,' per se, to anything. The only way to wrap-up a story that involves a dozen or more people would be to drop a bomb on them." Read More
"I'm not buying into 'we were all heroes' and 'we changed the world' and all that stuff. That's just too rah-rah and simplistic; we deserve a more nuanced understanding of those times and how it affected us, what motivated us then and what the outcomes are today." Read More
"I like writing about sex, and in particular, writing about real sexual and sensual experiences. Partly because I think the reality of sexual experiences is often elided in writing into something less ambiguous or ambivalent than sexual experiences often feel." Read More
"I’d suggest building a base in social media before you start planning on self-publishing a book. Then do your homework. There’s a lot to learn about book production and marketing, and there are plenty of self-published authors who have been there, done that, and are willing to share their experience." Read More
