Dena Hankins

Dena Hankins (born 1975) is an American novelist and short story author, best known for queer and transgender erotic romance. Her short stories have been published in several erotica anthologies, including Best Lesbian Romance of the Year 2015 edited by Radclyffe.

Hankins’ work is part of a growing trend to feature queer romance that is outside of the “issues” books that were once more common.[1] Publisher’s Weekly called her novel Blue Water Dreams, featuring a love story between a queer cisgender woman and a transgender man, an “exciting debut”,[2] and Lambda Literary Review included Blue Water Dreams among “new and noteworthy” LGBT books.[3] Literary blog Out in Print: Queer Book Reviews[4] chose Blue Water Dreams for inclusion in its “Best of 2014” top ten list. The American Library Association found her book to be “well within the expectations of the romance genre, albeit with an aypical male lead.”[5]

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Pierre-François Hugues d’Hancarville

Pierre-François Hugues, known as ‘baron d’Hancarville’ (Nancy 1719 – Padua 1805) was an art historian and historian of ideas. Pierre Francois Hugues was born in 1719 at Nancy, France, the son of a bankrupt cloth-merchant. He himself later added the title of ‘baron d’Hancarville’ to his name. Read: Robert Silverberg

Meilin Miranda

Lynn Siprelle, better known by the pen name MeiLin Miranda, is the American author of the fantasy series An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom.[1] She is also the author of the online fantasy western serial Scryer’s Gulch. She co-authored the shared steampunk fantasy series The Drifting Isle Chronicles. Her fantasy and science fiction novels […]

Paride da Ceresara

Paride da Ceresara (10 February 1466 – 1532) was an Italian humanist, poet, alchemist and astrologer. He was born in Ceresara and was descended from the Ceresara, a noble family. He was in the service of Isabella d’Este in Mantua and came up with the mythological, allegorical and celebratory themes for at least two of […]

Emily Morse

Emily Hope Morse (born June 2, 1970)[1] is an American sex therapist, author, and media personality. She is the host of the long-running podcast, Sex with Emily and is also known for her 2012 recurring reality television appearance in Bravo’s series Miss Advised (2012).[2][3] Morse has appeared as a guest expert on many radio and […]

Ion Creangă

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