Author: Taylor Ramage

Don’t Travel Through Pants: How Dungeons and Dragons Helps Writers Solve World Problems

In the six months since I’ve started playing Dungeons and Dragons, I have learned to…

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Gendered Book Covers and the Need For Empowering Femininity

I recently found a fascinating article about Maureen Johnson’s Twitter project examining what would happen…

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YA Fiction and Underlying Gender Expectations

          Mainstream Young Adult (YA) fiction contains some of the most…

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Interview with Jo Marshall, author of Twig Stories

­ Hey folks! Today we have the honor of hearing from author Jo Marshall about…

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Leaf & The Sky of Fire

One season after recruiting the giant beavers to build a dam on the flooded river,…

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Leaf & The Rushing Waters:

Twigs are stick creatures that live in trees deep in the forest. They gather nuts,…

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Obligatory NaNoWriMo 2012 Post

In the past, I’ve made NaNo posts after the event, but never before. This is…

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Well, look who got tagged for a neato blog award.

Me.   I don’t ever have occasion to make posts like this, but Jeanette S…

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My Pink Wand and Skirts Make Me Strong: Sailor Moon and Feminine Feminism

 Sailor Moon is heralded as an iconic 90s anime and for good reason. Besides being…

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Sailor Moon Returns in 2013: 3 hopes and dreams for the new series

According to Anime News Network, a new anime adaptation of Sailor Moon is set to air…

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