Travel Tales
Review of the best travel reads whether you are dreaming about your next adventure in your lovely abode or camped out on a beach or by a lake.
10 Queer Book Festivals Worth Traveling For
These Book Festivals Will Send You Soaring With The Latest Inspiring Page Turners by Heather Cassell I love fall and winter. The seasons give me the perfect excuse to curl up under a blanket in front of the fireplace with my latest read cracked open in front of me and a hot chocolate next to […]
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5 Photo Books That Will Keep Your Wanderlust Satisfied
These Travel Photo Coffee Table Books Bring Distant Lands Vividly To Life And Double As Travel Guides From Your Sofa by Heather Cassell Summer vacation beyond the borders of the United States and possibly the state we live in clearly has been forced to pull off the road with the pandemic this year. The coronavirus, […]
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Women Of Napa Valley Book Raises Funds For Wildfire Relief
Book Celebrates Women Of Napa And Raises Support In The Wake Of The Northern California Wildfires That Devastated Napa And Sonoma Valleys by Heather Cassell Napa is strong and so is its women. A new coffee table book, “Wine Country Women of Napa Valley,” coming to bookstores October 24, celebrates the diverse and empowering community […]
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These Globetrotting Gals Need A Vacation From The Vacation
It’s a dream life from the posts on Facebook and Instagram. Galivanting blogging women trapezing around the world and having the time of their lives and looking good while doing it, but the reality is further from the truth captured on the filtered images and carefully crafted captions.
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Real Love’s Fairytale
Love doesn’t have a formula and neither do relationships, says best-selling lesbian romance novelist K’Anne Meinel.
Unfortunately, relationships and love aren’t a romantic comedy or a dramatic love story that are neatly wrapped up in a happily ever after ending in your favorite lesbian love movie flickering before you in real life, but may be a little closer to “Fried Green Tomatoes.”
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A Fashionable Adventure: American Fashion Travel: Designers on the Go
Who says women like to keep it safe by staying at home? They haven’t met these women fashion designers who are intrepid traversing the world searching for the best textiles, fabrics and ideas to bring to the runway … oh, and along the way they learn so much more about our humanity that enriches them and their designs for the clothes we wear.
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The Wild Improbable Life of Beth Lisick
A longtime favorite on the spoken word circuit and the Bay Area literary scene, Beth Lisick’s career as a literati seems to be ramping up an extra notch as she cruises into her mid-40s.
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Women Shake, Rattle and Roll Litquake SF 2013
Seismic activity of the literary sort will top the Richter scale this week as women seem to be shaking up the Bay Area’s literary landscape as Litquake 2013 hits San Francisco, Oct. 11 – 19.
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Ski Diva’s Vermont Mysteries Take Readers for a Wild Spin
Self-described ski bum Stacey Curtis flees to a small ski resort in Vermont to get over a bad breakup, but ends up finding a corpse with a chainsaw chain wrapped around his neck in an empty condo. She covertly ends up investigating his murder. Within the first few pages of Double Black (Ski Diva Mystery), Wendy Clinch’s gripping debut mystery novel, we realize we are in the hands of a tough and unsentimental writer who knows this small New England town terrain all too well.
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Grrrl Rock It!
In the late ‘80s pop was filled with girls, but punk rock was a different world. Still a bastion of maleness, Joan Jett, who straddled punk and rock, was the only girl who pushed through the testosterone to make it.
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Guiding Women: Damron Women’s Traveller 2012
Don’t leave home without it. Damron Women’s Traveller: 2012 Edition Damron Women’s Traveller, the most popular travel guide for queer women, is back with all new and updated listings for 2012. Want to know where to go in Nashville? Damron Women’s Traveller will point you in the right direction. It is the must have guide for queer girls and their friends.
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Taking the Wheel: Nona Willis Aronowitz Drives to Discover Modern Feminism
Freshly minted college graduates, having brunch and Bloody Mary’s one day in New York City, childhood best friends Emma Bee Bernstein and Nona Willis Aronowitz concocted a plan to get out of their intellectual, liberal, urban bubble to find out what feminism in America means to women in the new millennium.
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