by Cooper West | Dec 30, 2011 | Announcements!
Miss me? I have. It’s been four weeks now since I was first laid low by whooping cough (NtS: never again!) and I’ve pretty much been an invalid for this whole time. That’s not actually an understatement, as it should be in most other circumstances:...
by Cooper West | Dec 15, 2011 | Modus Operandi
I came down with whooping cough. I know, I didn’t think it existed outside of Dickens’ novels either, but it does. Oh, it does. So for two whole weeks I’ve been coughing like a consumption victim, unable to sleep, and drinking codeine cough syrup...
by Cooper West | Dec 4, 2011 | Review
Title: BULLIED Author: Jeff Erno Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages: 158 Characters: Multiple (short story collection) POV: Mostly first-person Sub-Genre: Contemporary Blurb: Every day, all over the country, teenagers struggle with the realities of bullying....
by Cooper West | Nov 29, 2011 | Editorial
I am one of the Muppet generation. The Muppet Show launched when I was about seven years old, ended when I was thirteen, and stayed in heavy re-run rotation all the way up until I went to college. It was absolutely formative. So I was predisposed to like the new...
by Cooper West | Nov 20, 2011 | Editorial, Writing Industry
I am not a yaoi expert, nor even a bona fide fan. I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read and I’m a regular reader of Teahouse, but on the whole I’m outside of yaoi in fandom. I can wax poetic about Manchester in 1973 (and believe me, that takes work) but...