Category: advice
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Ask the Question
There are so many way that medical treatment can go wrong when people make assumptions.
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Can a Mystery Novel Save Your Life?
Have you ever started something new – a job, a project – and immediately felt like it was going to kill you? That’s what the last week and a half were like for me as I took on the role of department chair at work. The fault was partly my…
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How to have fantastic sex without feeling sexy.
If you want sex with someone who wants sex with you, why should you have an extra burden of needing to feel sexy?
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What Does Writing A Book Have to do with Hating My Body?
The other day I tweeted about something intensely personal: the feelings of body dysmorphia I’ve been struggling with over the last year or so. For me what this means is that frequently if I catch a glance at my body in the mirror while getting dressed (I generally try not…
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Can you help me support indie bookstores?
If you’ve been thinking about preordering Bound but haven’t done so yet, let me ask you two questions: Do you have an indie bookstore in your area? If so, please consider asking them to order the book for you instead of ordering it through Amazon*. If you don’t have an…
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It’s Not Actually a Cat Video, but Don’t Let That Stop You
Recently I had the pleasure of working with Melissa of Universal By Design on a book trailer for Bound. If you’ve never worked with Melissa, I can tell you that she is a force of nature and she will not rest until you are happy with what you are getting.…
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How to Be Seen
We need to do much better for young people in general, for queer youth specifically, and even more particularly for bisexual youth. We can start by not making assumptions of heterosexuality when we talk to young people.
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3 Things That Make Self-Promotion Hard and 5 Things You Can Do About Them
The thing that makes it hard for me to promote my work is the same thing that makes it hard for me to ask for what I need or want in other situations: a combination of fear, shame, and self-doubt. Specifically, shame around the need itself, fear that it won’t…
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An Introvert Ponders Self-Promotion
One of the first books I read about unconventional sexuality as a young adult was called Exhibitionism for the Shy, by Carol Queen. It was exactly what the title would lead you to expect: an instructional guide to an exciting kind of sexual expression for exactly the kinds of readers…
Elizabeth Anne Wood, Ph.D. 