![]() ![]() Meaker died only a few months ago, and before she went i hope she was able to see the golden age of sapphic romcoms we're in right now. (sadly, her note mentions a memoir she was working on titled remind me, which seems to have been unfinished and/or unpublished) love that she made her writing dream happen despite the obstacles, and that her pseudonyms gave her the freedom to write about queer characters without consequences. ![]() ![]() she says she was unable to find an agent, so she became her own agent, writing prolifically under various pseudonyms as clients within different genres. ![]() Meaker's author's note at the end of the book is lovely. i read spring fire not long ago, and i wanted to see how the author's style shifted when she moved from scandalous lesbian pulp of the 1950s to realistic YA fiction of the 1990s. kerr, is none other than lesbian pulp novelist vin packer. While i have a lot of old school gay novels on my list, i wanted to read this one sooner than later because the author marijane meaker, or m.e. it's about a missouri farm family living in an insular and very religious rural small town, so not a particularly progressive community. this 1990s lgbt+ classic actually holds up really nicely, though it often feels like it came from an earlier decade. ![]()
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