by Cooper West | Jun 27, 2013 | Editorial, Health, Modus Operandi
I’m going a little OT with that headline, I know. Bear with me. Recently my friend Sarah Madison wrote a very powerful essay about the power of self-acceptance and self-love, which focused heavily on her body image issues. To say I related to that whole...
by Cooper West | Jun 14, 2013 | Editorial, Modus Operandi
What we tell ourselves is our own persuasion. It’s the stuff we repeat over and over in the dark, lying in bed, making the decision that tomorrow will be different. Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn’t. I’m at the point where I have to admit...
by Cooper West | Jun 9, 2013 | Editorial, Writing Update
I was recently talking by email with my friend and fellow author Sarah Madison about current projects and upcoming releases. She has gotten some fantastic reviews for her excellent book Boys of Summer, which she self-published, and she’s busy working on new M/M...
by Cooper West | Jun 2, 2013 | Editorial
In the space of a few days I’ve spent money I don’t have on going to the movie theater to watch Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness. No spoilers here, just me flailing a little at the awesome! Not that either movie is perfect, but then kind of like most...
by Cooper West | Sep 14, 2012 | Editorial
A while ago I posted about how I really liked the fact that Joss Whedon kept Avengers free of any romantic sub-plots. Oh sure, you can read something into the relationship between Hawkeye and the Black Widow…or not. It’s pretty ambiguous, and looking at it objectively...
by Cooper West | Sep 10, 2012 | Editorial
My life as a fangirl started early – which came first for me, Star Trek or Star Wars? Hard to say; I was seven when Star Wars: A New Hope came out, but even by then Star Trek was a reliable rerun on the five or six television stations that came in clearly. (Yes,...
