women – Rachel Heston-Davis

Trekking Through the Rockies

ByRachel October 5, 2009 9 Comments

I just finished up my long trek to Colorado for the inaugural year of the Sirens conference, and boy oh boy was it a week of adventure! It was an exercise in socializing, networking, intellectualizing...and survival. The altitude alone took some endurance. Crammed into the car with my husband and parents (our luggage practically spring-loaded the trunk), we made the ear-popping climb to Vail, CO,...

Publications of all sorts

ByRachel September 30, 2009 0 Comments

I got another article published over at Friends of Lulu. If you've ever wanted to know the five most important things about creating graphic works, read it here. Things are getting exciting around here! I'm checking out contests for a couple of my short stories, querying FLYNN, and a friend of mine just launched a small publishing company which is desperately seeking submissions. Just what every...

Life Imitates Art

ByRachel August 19, 2009 0 Comments

This is too weird. I just read EON: DRAGONEYE REBORN by Alison Goodman about a girl posing as a boy to win a competition. Then today I stumbled on this Yahoo story. In Goodman's story, Eon and her master believe she can excel in the Dragoneye competition. But it's closed to girls, so they pass her off as a young boy. As they suspected, she wins the competition. Throughout the book, others...

Female graphic novelists

ByRachel July 23, 2009 6 Comments

I'm having a heck of a time finding published female graphic novelists! I've been asked by two different sites to submit reviews of graphic works by women. Both sites are female-centric groups who recognize the sad truth: there aren't enough women in the comics industry! Think about it. How many of your Sunday paper comics are written by women? How many by men? Go into any Borders, go the...