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Winning the Game of Thrones: The Host of Characters and their Agendas This book explores characters’ agendas, from Sansa’s secret schemes to Arya’s ultimate goal. What is Cersei’s true fear? What do trout or golden roses symbolize? Is the show a feminist success or a ma...

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Pop Culture in the Whedonverse All the References in Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Cabin in the Woods, The Avengers, Doctor Horrible, In Your Eyes, Comics and More All the references in all of Joss Whedon's projects: From Buffy to Firefly to Avengers to comics, and AA to zombies, shwarma to Star Wars, for the truly avid Whedon fans.

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Scots, Sassenachs, and Spankings: Feminism and Gender Roles in Outlander Diana Gabaldon explores much about modern gender construction. Her heroines shoot pirates while the Highlanders blend courtly gallantry with bloodthirsty battles. How the books and show address nudity...

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We're Home: Fandom, Fun, and Hidden Homages in Star Wars: The Force Awakens Star Wars: The Force Awakens is crammed with delightful references – there are stacks of easter eggs, famous cameos, nods to the Extended Universe and computer games. Here they’re all listed and descr...

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Games, Apps & Activities for Instructors and Homeschoolers Seeking games, activities, apps, and fun to brighten up online classes? From the hottest new online activities to century-old word games, there's lots of activities you can bring to the classroom. Thi...

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Henry Potty and the Pet Rock: An Unauthorized Harry Potter Parody Catastrophe strikes Chickenfeet Academy, and it’s not just the cafeteria food. Lord Revolting, murderous goldfish-flusher, needs Really Wimpy’s pet rock to conquer the world! Watch Henry Potty take on...

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📚Jane Austen and the Brontës 💻 Issue #40 Upcoming Virtual Events for Spring 2026 A list of virtual talks and presentations on Austen and the Brontës this spring.

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Who Tells Your Story? History, Pop Culture, and Hidden Meanings in the Musical Phenomenon Hamilton Hamilton, the hip-hop rap musical, has revolutionized theater. Along with themes, symbols, history, and deeper meanings, we’ll explore how the show hauntingly echoes today’s political climate and hott...

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Nonsensibility Or Finding Love, Freindship, Pride, Sensibility, Persuasion, Dilemma, and Creative Spelling in Mansfield Abbey: A Comical Mash-up of the Classic Jane Austen Novels A parody mash-up of the six Jane Austen novels. Six young ladies – five sisters and a country cousin – live their lives straight from trashy novels. Nonetheless, all must find husbands or spend the re...

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Wicked and the Heroine’s Journey Wicked the musical combines the heroine's journey and villain's journey to make something unique...especially in the films. Learn all the depth of Elphaba and Glinda's growth through the two movies.

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Scots, Sassenachs, and Spankings: Feminism and Gender Roles in Outlander Diana Gabaldon explores much about modern gender construction. Her heroines shoot pirates while the Highlanders blend courtly gallantry with bloodthirsty battles. How the books and show address nudity...

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Valerie Estelle Frankel

The 17th annual #Smashwords Read an #ebook sale is on, now--March 7. My books are FREE -- #Wicked & the Heroine's Journey, Winning the #GameofThrones, #Hamilton guides and much more! www.smashwords.com/profile/view... #ebookweek26 #booksky #freebook

Pre-owned Dive into a fast-paced, suspense romance with paranormal overtones and themes of love, loss, and secrets revealed.

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Smashwords – Secrets of Sleipnir

All single volumes in my Secrets of Sleipnir series are FREE until Mar 7 at Smashwords! (The 1-3 omnibus is 50% off 😉) #Smashwords #ebookweek26 #bookstodon #booksky #booksale #freebooks #indiebooks 🌶️📚🪐 💕📚💙
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Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain Explore this collection of fifteen speculative tales of queer life, disability, romance, power, defiance, and resilience by award-winning, Candian author Cait Gordon.

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Adele Buck A New Hampshire native, Adele still has membership card number 430 from her hometown library even though she has lived in the D.C. area for over 20 years with her fantastic husband and the requisite n...

Heyo - all of my self-published books (including my most recent release, Meet-Cat) are now 50% off at Smashwords for one week!

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Merman in the center and tropes on the outside. 0.99 on smashwords.

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Shadow of a Dead God Fans of Jim Butcher and Scott Lynch will love this snarky fantasy mystery. It was only supposed to be one little job - a simple curse-breaking for Mennik Thorn to pay back a favour to his oldest frien...

I had forgotten that I'd put Shadow of a Dead God in the Smashwords sale, but I apparently did, so you can get it for $1.49 or equivalent on Smashwords for the next week!

My ebook, 5 Tales, will be promoted on @Smashwords to celebrate Read an Ebook Week from March 1-March 7. I just fixed up the formatting in this book that was missing one of the stories, so now you will have a chance to read ALL FIVE stories! Did I mention that it's FREE? #ebookweek26 #Smashwords

Two of my science fiction titles are half off as part of Smashwords’ Read An Ebook sale. Check them out!
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Hmm. I think it's supposed to be original essays, but we might squeeze in a reprint or ask at least. What've you got? You can send anything (abstract, whole essay etc) to valerie@calithwain.com

Assembling Sidney: Escape Sidney's most liberating memory is of a very sharp and very bloody knife. One night, in a dark parking lot, police sirens approaching, Sidney is assembling the truth of their life story, the truth of ...

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Hi all! For an essay collection on #toystudies toyetic tv (TV shows based on toys like She-Ra), I could use an essay or two on modern videos (e.g. #Labubu and #PopMart) or other interesting pitches. email valerie@calithwain.com Thanks! #academicsky #booksky #cfp

Bridgerton Uncovered: Exploring the Scandalous, Salacious Gender Roles of Season One Amazon.com: Bridgerton Uncovered: Exploring the Scandalous, Salacious Gender Roles of Season One eBook : Frankel, Valerie Estelle: Kindle Store

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Corsets, Afros & Tailcoats: Exploring the Costumes, Adaptation, and Witty Self-Reference of Bridgerton Amazon.com: Corsets, Afros & Tailcoats: Exploring the Costumes, Adaptation, and Witty Self-Reference of Bridgerton eBook : Frankel, Valerie Estelle: Kindle Store

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Adapting Bridgerton: Essays on the Netflix Show in Context Adapting Bridgerton: Essays on the Netflix Show in Context - Kindle edition by Frankel, Valerie Estelle. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Adapting Bridgerton: Essays on the Netflix Show in Context.

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