Emily Lauer

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August book releases are going to rock your summer reading, friends. Here are four of my favorites coming out next month! womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2024/07/augu...

August Books to Get Excited about Now - WWAC %womenwriteaboutcomics.com Whether you want a teen murder mystery set at a summer job, engrossing sci-fi full of future tech, or a teenaged bad girl hell-bent on revenge, there are great options headed your way this August. Dea...

I’m reading all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books in chronological order! Want to join me? womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2024/07/a-ye...

BOOKS: A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: Introduction - WWAC %womenwriteaboutcomics.com Diana Wynne Jones was a prolific and celebrated author of British fantasy novels, writing about kids with magic powers in boarding schools before that was cool. Starting in mid-July, I am going to rea...

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I'm proud to have worked with editor @emilylauer.bsky.social and @wwacomics.bsky.social on my essay "Nature and War Memory in Machiko Kyō’s Cocoon," a heartbreaking graphic novel about the Pacific War with an animated adaptation scheduled for Summer 2025. womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2024/07/mach...

A really lovely one from Kathryn Hemmann!

ESSAY: Nature and War Memory in Machiko Kyō’s Cocoon

ESSAY: Nature and War Memory in Machiko Kyō’s Cocoon - WWAC %womenwriteaboutcomics.com Machiko Kyō uses nature imagery to tell a harrowing story about fantasies of patriotism during the Pacific War in her landmark manga, Cocoon.

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Honoured Kirkus gave LONG LIVE EVIL a STARRED review, calling it an adventure of tremendous wonder, laugh-out-loud, & heartbreaking. LONG LIVE is funny & weird, & I want people to take it seriously & have a GREAT time. This means so much.

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"We are the people we've been waiting for" isn't just for politics, it's also for cat tours. And also for politics. (The article only briefly alludes to how much political stuff John coordinates, organizes, and promotes.)

I absolutely loved reading Long Live Evil by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social and I’m already looking forward to listening to the audiobook!

WWAC Reads Books! Summer Society Edition

WWAC Reads Books! Summer Society Edition - WWAC %womenwriteaboutcomics.com Read on for our summer reading recommendations from sociological nonfiction, appreciation of Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar, to speculative fiction.

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Today is Everything Happens So Much day, the day on which in 2012 horse_ebooks tweeted "everything happens so much"

The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internetwww.theatlantic.com A cryptic utterance from a supposed spambot never lost its relevance.

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Self

Consciousness of Shock by Victor Brauner, 1951 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137666

This book is VERY good. I stayed up all night and read the whole thing at once.

🌺 Preorder Campaign! 🌺 PAYAL MEHTA’S ROMANCE REVENGE PLOT comes out in exactly three months, which means you have three months to get a signed book plate and an incredible sticker sheet (designed by @heeral.bsky.social). Just go to bit.ly/PayalPreorder and fill out the form!

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🌺 last day to download PAYAL MEHTA'S ROMANCE REVENGE PLOT on netgalley if you want an exclusive early read! 🌺

Are you a netgalley member?? If so, between June 20 - June 21 you'll be able to download PAYAL MEHTA'S ROMANCE REVENGE PLOT as part of a PRH NetGalley Feed Your Reader promo! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plotwww.netgalley.com NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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*checks WIP against bingo card* Uh-huh…uh-huh…yep, one of those…

Are you a big @tkingfisher.bsky.social reader? check out @emilylauer.bsky.social 's T. Kingfisher BINGO card and stay for some spoiler-free reviews of What Feasts at Night and A Sorceress Comes to Call!

T. Kingfisher Bingo! (And spoiler-free REVIEWS of What Feasts at Night and A Sorceress Comes to Call) - WWAC %womenwriteaboutcomics.com If you’re a fan of T. Kingfisher a.k.a. Ursula Vernon, you may have noticed that some motifs show up repeatedly in her work.

If you’re a fan of @tkingfisher.bsky.social , you might enjoy T. Kingfisher Bingo! womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2024/06/t-ki...

Starting in July, I'll be reading all of Diana Wynne Jones's books in publication order in a year! This project is based largely on a pal's "Year on Discworld" readthrough in 2023. I'll be writing about it every month over at @wwacomics.bsky.social and if you want to read along, let me know!

Whose Names are Unknown is a fantastic novel - beautiful writing, interesting plot and characters, and also: it’s short.

#TIL that Sanora Babb's research on Dust Bowl camps was shared without her knowledge or permission, to John Steinbeck, whose novel The Grapes of Wrath made it to the shelves before her Whose Names Are Unknown . . . and as a result, hers was shelved and not published until *2004*.

#womenonpanels

In March I’ll be cochairing this roundtable at the NeMLA conf! Visual Revolutions: Comics and Speaking the Unspeakable. We seek participants who look at visual narrative through lenses of gender, sexuality, feminist, and transgender studies. cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S... ; www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html

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Wow, Occulted is one of Women Write About Comics' favorite comics of the year! Thanks, @wwacomics.bsky.social

I wrote about Evil Eyes Sea! Looking at a bunch of these roundups at once, apparently I thrive on extremely tense graphic narrative?

WWACommendations: Les Normaux, Evil Eyes Sea, Flying Kites and More

WWACommendations: Les Normaux, Evil Eyes Sea, Flying Kites and More - WWAC %womenwriteaboutcomics.com In the latest WWACommendations, we recommend Les Normaux, Flying Kites, Evil Eyes Sea, and Kowloon Generic Romance.

I wrote about how much I enjoyed Sheine Lende by @littlebadger.bsky.social and Bury Your Gays by @chucktingle.bsky.social !

WWAC Reads Books: Genre-Busting Edition

WWAC Reads Books: Genre-Busting Edition - WWAC %womenwriteaboutcomics.com This Spring, we at WWAC are reading everything from lyrical fairy tale retellings to sob-fest memoirs, to Absolute Classics!

This is my con diary from NYCC back in October! My fave as usual lead cosplay admiring, Spider-People cosplays especially this year.

CON DIARY: Braving New York ComicCon on Friday the 13th!

CON DIARY: Braving New York ComicCon on Friday the 13th! - WWAC %womenwriteaboutcomics.com At New York Comic Con 2023 WWAC skipped the big events to hang out with the cosplayers and artists in Artists Alley!

I wrote about Occulted, a truly anxiety-producing memoir of a childhood in a cult, published by Iron Circus!

WWAC’s (Belated) Favorite Small Press Comics of 2023! womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2024/04/wwac...

WWAC's Favorite Small Press Comics of 2023! - WWAC %womenwriteaboutcomics.com It’s March?? Well, it’s never a bad time to read a list of our favorite comics from small presses, indie presses, and creators who self-publish! Specifically favorites — best-of lists promise a lot, a...

I loved Punk Rock Karaoke by Bianca Xunise!

WWACommendations: Frieren, Punk Rock Karaoke, Little Miss P and More!

WWACommendations: Frieren, Punk Rock Karaoke, Little Miss P and More! - WWAC %womenwriteaboutcomics.com WWAC contributors review Frieren, Punk Rock Karaoke, Little Miss P, and other exciting comic book and manga titles.

Welcome back, Jenna!

From the Desk of WWAC’s Interim Editor-in-Chief

From the Desk of WWAC’s Interim Editor-in-Chief - WWAC %womenwriteaboutcomics.com WWAC welcomes Jenna Ledford to our editorial group as interim editor in chief.

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Are you bursting at the seams to tell the world about a new fave? Do YOU have thoughts about X-Men '97 that you can't contain? We'd love to hear them! Hit us up: editors at wwacomics dot com

I wrote about my experience writing and editing for @wwacomics.bsky.social as public-facing scholarship! americanstudier.blogspot.com/2024/04/apri...

April 6-7, 2024: Emily Lauer on Comics Analysis & Editing as Public-Facing Scholarshipamericanstudier.blogspot.com [This is Emily Lauer’s fourth Guest Post , making her the current leader in sharing her great ideas and writing here. Everybody else, time...

It was a lot of fun to chat about this great cover!

For this month’s Cover Girl feature on @wwacomics.bsky.social, we’re talking about the new Harley Quinn Annual cover by Erica Henderson!

Cover Girl: Harley Quinn 2024 Annual #1 by Erica Henderson! - WWAC %womenwriteaboutcomics.com Harley Quinn and Zatanna are up to fashionable hijinks in this fun cover of Harley Quinn Annual #1 by artist Erica Henderson!

My kid and I both love this super cute book about microbes by Elise Gravel!

REVIEW: Club Microbe by Elise Gravel Adorably Introduces Our Tiniest Neighbors

REVIEW: Club Microbe by Elise Gravel Adorably Introduces Our Tiniest Neighbors - WWAC %womenwriteaboutcomics.com Club Microbe by Elise Gravel is an adorable and informative look at the microbial world. I could see this functioning well as a read-aloud for toddlers, while an interested independent reader could ea...

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We need to stop calling it AI. Its not a fact bot. Its a generative language machine. Just making things that look like an answer. No fact checking involved. Thats not how they are programmed. People need to learn this.

@tkingfisher.bsky.social I’m reading an arc of A Sorceress Comes to Call (and it’s FABULOUS) and noticed that both it and Nettle & Bone mention an embroidery stitch called a cranefly knot! What? Is? A cranefly knot????