Amanda Ramirez
…found families. I’m chomping at the bit for more all-female casts and emotionally vulnerable male friendships. Take your favorite 80s-early aughts romcom and turn it into a book. I gravitate…
…found families. I’m chomping at the bit for more all-female casts and emotionally vulnerable male friendships. Take your favorite 80s-early aughts romcom and turn it into a book. I gravitate…
…completely reject them in your fiction–for that work that is the gold standard of “Familiar but with a twist” (which is what, for whatever reason, seems to work so well…
…is key) felt not only fully rational AND surprising, but which made complete contextual sense and didn’t feel like a cheat. The characters don’t get miraculously saved at the last…
…like YELLOWFACE, MAAME, PINEAPPLE STREET, THE OTHER BLACK GIRL, or LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY. I’ve been especially loving books with a genre twist lately — PORTRAIT OF A THIEF comes to…
…all have their strengths, weaknesses, and quirks and each are wholly unique in their own ways. Also, COVENS. I’m looking for an achingly bittersweet queer love story with thriller or…