Author Archives: Pat Bowne

Last week I read a Facebook discussion about the Pronoun Issue. Someone chimed in to say that you didn’t need to know people’s preferred pronouns. When did you really need to refer to somebody by a pronoun? this commenter asked … Continue reading →

My Facebook friends are probably tired of my posting links to Freddie deBoer pieces. I do it because he says exactly what I would say if I had his progressive street cred.  Here he is on the progressive takeover of … Continue reading →

A few things I’ve been reading lately caused me to reflect on a double standard I hold regarding Women’s Work in fiction. I’m a fan of Women’s Work, as behooves somene who grew up on Louisa May Alcott and Laura … Continue reading →

Months ago, before the enslatening, I posted in support of the Sad Puppies. It wasn’t because I read their kind of fiction, or cared who won the Hugos, or wanted less diversity in the field; it was because something about … Continue reading →

I had an attack of angst about my WIP. Who’s going to fall in love with these characters? Who’ll turn the page just to find out how their problems get solved, make up fanfic about soothing their fevered brows, etc. … Continue reading →

Lots of talk in fannish circles this year about big bad message fiction, and how it’s either corrupted the field or always been embedded in the field. Talk about fiction in service of a message (BAD), as opposed to fiction … Continue reading →