#reader letter

[alex--london]

Hey hi!! Hope you’re doing well! I met you and got signed copies of both proxy and guardian when I was in middle school. It was too gay for my little conservative, christian heart back in the day but now I’m a trans adult and I just read proxy in full for the first time and it broke me in the best way possible.

Great story and it will always hold a special place in my heart for how it waited for me. I grew into the person I needed to be to properly appreciate it, and it was so patient with and kind to me. It took me a long time to come back to it, but it was ready for me, waiting with open arms.

Well now I'm crying. This is the nicest note to get from a reader and what a true statement about books. We don't have to read them all the moment they come out and sometimes we aren't ready to. I am so glad you stuck around to give it a chance!

Thank you thank you thank you for coming back to my book, thank you for letting in to your heart, and thank you for letting me know about the experience. I often get sad that this book I love is fading into oblivion in a crowded book market after a decade and then a note like yours arrives. You have no idea (or maybe you do?) how much you have made my day.

Thank you for your kindness and for being you.

And thanks for reading.

[sephiraallen]

  Dear Reader,

It seems a bit silly to talk about serious themes in a book that features frost giants driving dune buggies, foul-mouthed fairies and a beer-swilling bogle—and yet, there is one. One of the delights of paranormal fantasy is that it allows us to view the familiar through the lens of the fantastic. The town of Pemkowet, where the Agent of Hel series is set, is based on my hometown of Saugatuck. We really do have miles of Lake Michigan coast and acres of spectacular dunelands threatened by development, just like Hel’s demesne is threatened by… well, you’ll find out.

The idea that preserving the few wild places left in the world is essential to preserving the existence of magic is central to Poison Fruit; but it’s something I believe, too. There’s a sense of wondrous suspense in not knowing what lies around the next bend, whether it’s a shy dryad or a doe with her fawns.

Poison Fruit is also a book in which my hell-spawn heroine Daisy is forced to confront her worst fear. Granted, it’s more extreme than anything those of us without infernal parentage have to contend with, but I think a lot of people can relate to the idea of a fear so deep and dark, it’s scary to even voice it.

Of course, there are thrills and chills along the way, too. There’s a creepy predator on the loose, and Daisy’s love life is more complicated—and hotter—than ever.

This trilogy has been a tremendous amount of fun to write, and I hope everyone has enjoyed the ride. Just remember to keep your limbs inside the vehicle on the descent to Little Niflheim…

Best wishes,

Jacqueline Carey

[omisspearl]

Reader Letter: Embracing Femdom As A Beginer

Reader Letter: Embracing Femdom As A Beginer

So this question popped up in my fetlife feed, and with the original author’s permission I reprinted.

So, I have a lot if issues. I’m new to all this and really need a mentor in general. [To keep things short] I’m going to try my best to narrow things down and hopefully find some help that way.

For one, I’m kind of shy. I like to get to know people before I’m comfortable enough to act “dommy”…

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[omisspearl]

Crazy Messages: Why Ronald Gill will never find a femdom

Crazy Messages: Why Ronald Gill will never find a femdom

So a couple of weeks ago, I got another contender for the spot currently occupied by “Jeremy Smith”. For a little while I hesitated to publish this for a number of reasons. First of all, the challenge with getting crazy, entitled messages is that the people who send them probably know better already. As I’ve stated in my FAQ, abusive messages result in naming and shaming. I don’t feel…

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[omisspearl]

Reader Letter: More From Crazy Jeremy!

The guy who sent random hatemail last time appears to have become a regular fan- this time with thinly veiled rape and death threats from the comfortable anonymity of the internet, apparently after reading this scene wrap up:

(From “Jeremy Smith”…

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[scrumtruelescent]

I call this reader letter, "Lita & Lucifer," from the December 1984 issue of Hit Parader.

[eschergirls]

yellowis4happy submitted:

I was looking through your blog, and I noticed something interesting: Guillem March, who is the man responsible for the atrocity that is the New 52's Catwoman, amongst other things, is all over the place, but only has one thing submitted under his tag! I thought that deserved to be fixed, so I went through your DC submissions and picked out all the other stuff I recognize to have been drawn by him, including all the Gotham City Sirens stuff that's up here, and the recent Huntress miniseries. :)

Yeah, sometimes I don't know who drew a picture, so I don't tag it.  Also, my tags have expanded over the course of the blog, and I haven't had time to go through everything and tag them yet :\  Thank you so much for helping me with this!  If anybody else wants to help me find posts where I should be adding a particular tag to them, any help would be welcome. :)

[eschergirls]

Just wanna say, love this blog. But... Can you please explain the issue with the Bionic woman one? She actually looks realistic to me, I kind of thought it was a redraw at first. I think maybe the shirt line throws you off? Or am I in the wrong? Just want to clear it up.

She's showing boobs and butt.  (It's black on black so you have to look closely, but both butt cheeks are clearly drawn)  I know it's not extreme, but IMO it still qualified. :)  The other way to look at it, as my friend pointed out, is that the spine is fine, but they gave her a weird butt tumor on the other cheek.