Greta Christina has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including atheism, sexuality and sex-positivity, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her mind. She is author of
The Way of the Heathen: Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life, of
Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God, of
Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why, of
Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless, and of
Bending: Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain, Power, Religion, Unicorns, & More, and is editor of
Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients. She has been a public speaker for many years, and many of her talks can be seen on YouTube. Her writing has appeared in multiple magazines and newspapers, including Ms., Penthouse, Chicago Sun-Times, On Our Backs, and Skeptical Inquirer, and numerous anthologies, including
Everything You Know About God Is Wrong and three volumes of
Best American Erotica. (Any views she expresses in this blog are solely hers, and do not necessarily represent this organizations.) She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid. You can email her at gretachristina (at) gmail (dot) com, or follow her on
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You know… I’m a huge fan of the bits on the inside of you books – you know, the words – but the covers? (Un)holy shit, your covers rock so hard.
Good luck! Don’t let the editor monster eat you.
*goes back to lurking*
I’m glad to hear you have another book coming out. I’m looking forward to it. I always enjoy your books on the topic of atheism.
If you don’t mind, I would like to ask a question that might seem a bit off topic. I ask you because you have written and published several successful books. Almost four years ago, I donated to this kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skepticsguidetoislam/a-skeptics-guide-to-islam/ by your fellow network blogger Heina Dadabhoy. I donated $25 in order to receive a print copy of the book. She claimed that she already had a contract with a publisher, and that the book would be out in late 2012/early 2013.
It is now 2016 and there is no sign of the book that many people have already paid her for. She has given a few sporadic updates claiming issues with her publisher, the last one claiming that there was a hard publication date of Dec. 2015. Obviously that date has passed. I have attempted to contact her through Twitter and get blog, and have received no response.
Are situations like this normal in the publishing industry? Have I been ripped off?
Congratulations on another project soon to be put to bed.
#2 Uh…this post isn’t about kickstarter, or Heina. I don’t see why Christina should know any more about this situation than you do.
It isn’t THAT big a delay from December, even if the accumulated stalling is annoying. Is there any identification given for the actual publisher? I would think that would be the place to start, since Heina has very little control over them and they are the ones who’ll actually print and ship.
You have a third book in the “angry” series coming out? Color me impressed. I sense yet another autograph request at some future con coming on…
I look forward to reading it.
I read the blurb for it at Amazon. It looks interesting. But I only wish to read it when it comes out in e-book form — I don’t want to load myself down with dead-tree books. I already have a lot of such books that I continue to hold on to because there are no e-book forms of them available, legitimate or otherwise.
“The way we deal with life — with love and sex, pleasure and death, reality and making stuff up —can change dramatically when we stop believing in gods, souls, and afterlives.” I am a lifelong atheist, and I’ve always believed in a metaphysical-naturalistic worldview, so my experience is a bit limited in that regard. I wouldn’t have as much to say as our host.
I also like that cover picture. In that and others, our host seems to like being portrayed as wearing flat-soled shoes. But what’s with the short skirt? Some feminists would consider that sexual exploitation, though they’d like the shoes. I note the shoes because some women grumble about how awkward and troublesome high heels are.
lpetrich @ #6: The book will be published as an ebook as well as a dead-tree book. All my books are available in ebook, audiobook, and paper formats. The ebook publication will probably be at the same time as the print publication.
Greta,
You gotta change that title! “Heathens” aren’t atheists, they are people who worship the Norse gods.