In this episode Hope Nicholson gets real about relationships.
Topics include the lens of fandom, non-answers to dating, sharing exes, the Grapevine, being a late bloomer, make the thing you want to read, Kickstarter budgets, smutty fanfiction, sex is weird, first kiss stories, Canadian comics, Miracleman, finding old comics, and what she’s reading!
DISCLAIMER: We’re all adults here, right? Right. We talk about sex in this one, folks. Put your headphones on.
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Kara : Welcome back to comiXology Conversations, your premiere source for interviews of people within the comics industry with your hosts, Slim and Kzam.
Matt : Hello.
Kara : Hi.
Matt : Welcome back.
Kara : Welcome back. We are here today with Hope Nicholson who edited the Secret Loves of Geek Girls as well as contributing a story. Welcome.
Hope Nicholson: Hi.
Kara : Secret Loves of Geek Girls, to those who don’t know, is an anthology of women who are geeks who are just talking about love and relationships and sex in the context of their geek fandoms. I identified with this book, like, so hard. It’s one thing to realize that other have similar shippy nerd interests as you and another thing entirely to read their introspective stories trying to sort out of these feels mean. Did you find during editing or compiling that was difficult getting contributors to open up or was the opposite occurring?
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