tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582709.post7084151725897442256..comments2024-02-21T10:23:37.299+00:00Comments on Fluttering Butterflies: Guest Post: Susie Day on the books she writesMichelle Fluttering Butterflieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793681725475475156noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582709.post-56359419148971412022011-02-21T23:07:05.432+00:002011-02-21T23:07:05.432+00:00TY, Luisa and Laura (smoking indeed! :D).
Simmone...TY, Luisa and Laura (smoking indeed! :D).<br /><br />Simmone - I do feel epic anxiety about the whole 'erasure of difference' question, because we still need books that shout their agendas and tackle those realities head-on. I'm just glad that other people are writing them already. ;) Haven't encountered Horniman - will check her out.Susiehttp://www.susieday.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582709.post-26571580349874695872011-02-21T22:50:16.652+00:002011-02-21T22:50:16.652+00:00yay susie. Its interesting what you say about the ...yay susie. Its interesting what you say about the 'erasure of difference' ...because it seems to me like a future world in a way, or a parallel world where people are just more accepting of the fact that we're not all the same (and yet in a way we are) ...hmmm. I love your books! I love that the issues to the characters are multifarious ...anyway. I'm feeling inrticulate. Have you read the oz author Joanne Horniman? - she writes these beautiful books where characters are not just sexuality but so much more. If you can't get any I will send you some!simmonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09410070490992751751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582709.post-2351876567441925752011-02-21T20:46:11.655+00:002011-02-21T20:46:11.655+00:00What an ace post, great topic discussed and I can ...What an ace post, great topic discussed and I can confirm that both Beyonce and Dean W are SMOKING hot.SisterSpookyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03455482753356400363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582709.post-77246315271385459582011-02-21T18:32:17.744+00:002011-02-21T18:32:17.744+00:00Wonderful wonderful post. Thank you, Susie!Wonderful wonderful post. Thank you, Susie!Luisa at Chicklishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02205583360149476191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582709.post-49875489898758091212011-02-21T17:57:51.078+00:002011-02-21T17:57:51.078+00:00Jenni - Thank you! Ahh, Dean: pretty, broody, Dean...Jenni - Thank you! Ahh, Dean: pretty, broody, Dean... :D<br /><br />Vivienne - hugs all round! Love It Gets Better. There's an amazing youtube of people who work at Pixar: defy anyone to watch it and not feel teary and hopeful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a4MR8oI_B8Susiehttp://www.susieday.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582709.post-35456330084927699772011-02-21T13:22:03.021+00:002011-02-21T13:22:03.021+00:00What an awesome post. I want to give Susie a big h...What an awesome post. I want to give Susie a big hug for writing such a fantastic post. I am intrigued by the 'It Gets Better' project.serendipity_vivhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07156013023056026525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582709.post-43338338657440786852011-02-21T12:24:51.478+00:002011-02-21T12:24:51.478+00:00Thank you so much to Michelle for inviting me to c...Thank you so much to Michelle for inviting me to contribute to LOVE month!<br /><br />@Keris: personally I'd rather tokenism than invisibility. And yes, the 'gay bestie' is a cliche - but you're not a cliched writer, so you can find a way around that. Does it have to be the best friend? Or indeed a bloke? Or only one of them? Just don't let panic that you'll 'do representing all gay people ever' wrong hold you back, because no one is actually expecting these characters to do that. :D<br /><br />@Liz - I'm the same about pink books, or was until I realised I was writing them. (I spent my teens thinking fantasy was 'proper books' and compulsively reading Judy Blume on the sly.) Would love it if you linked to your pink books post!<br /><br />@Caroline - thank you, and yep: I wonder too how different my teen years might have been. I'm so thrilled there's a real range of representation in YA now, though in smaller bookshops and libraries you still might not see it. We're getting there, slowly...:)Susiehttp://www.susieday.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582709.post-69150575925352609162011-02-21T12:17:17.249+00:002011-02-21T12:17:17.249+00:00Brilliant post, interesting and inspiring. I think...Brilliant post, interesting and inspiring. I think I'll be thinking about what you have said for a while.<br /><br />(And at a very shallow level seeing Dean Winchester looking all pretty and broody made me smile a lot).Jenni @ Juniper's Junglehttp://junipersjungle.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582709.post-42769212015792064802011-02-21T12:08:42.343+00:002011-02-21T12:08:42.343+00:00I absolutely love this article!
Thank you so much ...I absolutely love this article!<br />Thank you so much Susie for sharing your thoughts on this!<br />I would have loved to have read one of those pink books with LGBT characters inside when I was a teen. It probably would have made me see that I am not a freak and that other people are like me and we're basically just like everybody else rather than different (in that negative sense it always seems to have when you're a teen).<br />Will definitely go read your books soon :)Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18270606510325274092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582709.post-78833256093351879252011-02-21T12:03:08.831+00:002011-02-21T12:03:08.831+00:00What a fantastic blogpost! I applaud Susie wholehe...What a fantastic blogpost! I applaud Susie wholeheartedly and think that maybe, just maybe the world could be ready for that pink book.<br /><br />I've long ago learned that pink books - the actual covers - turn me off. I've also learned that I'm stupid and should look past the pinkness to the amazing writing, characters and achingly honest real life anxieties beneath as well as the laugh out funny moments in these pink books. I even wrote a blogpost about it. Because I am so sad, I know. <br /><br />Great article, you guys! And thanks to Susie for popping by and chatting to us, to let us know that being different isn't being that different, after all.<br /><br />PS: I had to delete my first comment as I kept calling Susie, Sarah. Sigh.Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11505919558970094338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582709.post-87756093549260084592011-02-21T12:01:46.002+00:002011-02-21T12:01:46.002+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11505919558970094338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21582709.post-81132328265823706262011-02-21T12:01:25.222+00:002011-02-21T12:01:25.222+00:00Thank you for such a wonderful post, Susie and Mic...Thank you for such a wonderful post, Susie and Michelle. <br /><br />Susie, I've been thinking about having a gay character in my next book, but I was worried about a) tokenism and b) that the gay best friend (tho mine is a brother, not a best friend) is such a chick lit cliche. I'd love to hear your opinion on it.Kerishttp://dellasays.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com