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What makes a good romance?

by Malinda Lo on April 22, 2010

in Writing

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I‘ve never considered myself a romance reader, but lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes a romance work. This is because there is a romance in Huntress, and initially, it totally did not work. Over the course of several drafts I had to fix it. I started out by reading a some YA [...]

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Queerness

by Malinda Lo on November 30, 2009

in Ash,Queer Stuff

I’m preparing a blog post about YA books that include room for queerness, and in thinking about that, I began to think about the word queer itself. I know that for some people, queer is still an epithet, a put-down. For me, it is not. It is part of the LGBTQ acronym — lesbian, gay, [...]

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