Tuesday, January 22, 2013

At Large Free on Kindle Jan 22-26 ... free is good...

To celebrate Healthy Weight Week we're offering the Kindle copy of At Large, the 3rd Jo Fuller Sleuth of Size mystery Kindle Jan 22-26 At Large on Amazon You can read it on any computer with the free Kindle Reader software.

Friday, January 18, 2013

As time, and ex-husbands go by....

Josephine Fuller's third adventure, At Large, has just been reissued as an ebook and in trade paperback. The first line is a nod to Casablanca: Of all the women's job skill centers in all the towns in all the Pacific Northwest, he walks into mine. To read the first two chapters click At Large sample

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

I'll drink a cup to Fat Friendly Fiction in 2013!

This year I'm collaborating with Pearlsong Press to put out a Fat Friendly Fiction list. The blog is in progress with information and links to all the titles. Eventually an ebook version wil be available. But I want to start by posting the authors by genre. Please feel free to visit Fat Friendly Fiction for more info or to comment.

Email me at murraymade@yahoo.com for a one-page printable Word version of the author list.

Here it is for your reading pleasure! FAT FRIENDLY FICTION

CHICK LIT & HUMOR

Backauskas, Staci

MacAfee, Stephanie

Murray, Lynne

Palmer, Liza

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Carlson, Nancy

Corum, Ann Kondo

Ka, Olivier

CURVY EROTICA

Armstrong, Mechele

Brown, Leila

Blank, Hanne

Davis, Justine

Hunter, Adriana

James, Karolyn

Lane, Gretchen

Lee, Marilyn

Lovell, Christin

Moore, Alexis

Scott, J. S.

Verdenis, Angelina

Wick, Christa

FANTASY/PARANORMAL/VISIONARY

Bertauski , Tony

Fox, Andrew

Murray, Lynne

Owen, Lauri J.

Pratchett, Terry

Price, Susan

Truant, Johnny B

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE

Ballard, Pat

Biggers, Earl Derr

Carr, John Dickson

Chesterton, G.K.

Collins, Wilkie

Dickens, Charles

Dickson, Carter

Langton, Jane

Le Carré, John

Lorens, M.K.

Lovesey, Peter

Lovett, Charlie

McKevett, G.A.

Mortimer, John

Murray, Lynne

Smith, Alexander McCall

SHORT STORIES

Bagshaw, Judy

Ballard, Pat

Blank, Hanne (Ed.)

Chesterton, G.K.

Irving, Washington

Jaffarian, Sue Ann

Jarrell, Donna (Ed.)

Koppelman, Susan (Ed.)

Ira Sukrungruang (Ed.)

UNCATEGORIZED

(LITERARY/PLAYS/WOMEN'S etc.)

Adams, Essa

Dickens, Charles

Shakespeare, William

Stinson, Susan

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

Bellairs, John

Bennett, Cherie

Berk, Josh

Bethancourt, Ernesto T.

Healy, Karen

Hoffman, Nina Kiriki

Lovett, Charlie

Newman, Leslea

Purtill, C. Leigh

Rex, Adam

Strickland, Brad

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Reviewing Hot & Heavy, Conversing on an Alternate Fat Friendly World

I had a good time reviewing Hot & Heavy, an anthology edited by Virgie Tovar. "Fierce" is a very useful attitude when navigating a world that quite literally aims to belittle us! I'm also tickled that the editor and guiding spirit of this book is a fellow San Francisco State graduate and she has a Masters degree in Human Sexuality--a degree only offered at SFSU.

Did I mention I love San Francisco for just this type of cultural enlightenment?

Today, Sun 11/11/12, I'm joining a Pearlsong Conversation with Tracey L Thompson author of Fatropolis, where life as a fat person is a positive experience! Life is good!

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Traumatic brain injury and healing poetry - Louise Mathewson's A Life Interrupted

I posted over at Body Impolitic about Louise Mathewson's powerful book:

In A Life Interrupted: Living with Brain Injury Louise Mathewson has written a small book of poems that resonate profoundly. The poems tell the story of reclaiming her life. She has brought back these words from a time of silence that followed a tremendous trauma caused by a serious auto accident.

The whole post is at:

Healing through Art, Louise Mathewson’s Life Interrupted: Living with Brain Injury

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Some thoughts on Amateur & Professional Eye-Candy

My name for the way television culture skillfully and constantly tells us what’s beautiful, sexy, and hot–and what isn’t–is “Team Entertainment-Fueled Eating Disorders,” a team whose only goal is to dominate and destroy our traditional cultures and our own personal perceptions, which I call “Team Just the Way We Are.” Continued on Body Impolitic

Image of Camryn Manheim from Curvy Her