Monthly Archives: November 2013

Your flame lights mine (queer female couple celebrating Chanukah)

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Shira

Happy Chanukah from Shulamit and Aviva, and from their creator, Shira Glassman. (Characters are from The Second Mango, a fantasy novel with an all-Jewish cast, drawn here by Ceili Braidwood and inked by Jane Dominguez.) 11/29/2013 only: get 25% off the … Continue reading →

Posted in Mangoverse | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Well, that’s one way to light the shamash!

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Shira

Happy Chanukah from Rivka and her dragon, and from their creator, Shira Glassman. Characters from The Second Mango, a fantasy novel from Prizm Books with an all-Jewish cast, drawn by Erika Hammerschmidt

Posted in Mangoverse, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Feet in the water on a hot day

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Shira

Cillaid has drawn this adorable “cheeb” (as she calls them) of Shulamit and Aviva, the queer female couple from The Second Mango.  Shulamit is the princess (well, queen by the time the book begins, but there’s backstory) who’s got multiple food … Continue reading →

Posted in Mangoverse | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Show and tell

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Shira

Rivka showing Queen Shulamit the inscription on her sword, which used to be Isaac’s spare. Shulamit, ever the intellectual, carefully studies the foreign text trying to make out the words for herself. Artwork by Rebecca Schauer. Keep it for now. … Continue reading →

Posted in Mangoverse | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Mighty One

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Shira

When he first agreed to teach this bold young woman how to swordfight, he didn’t know she was going to get so good that he’d fall in love with the hero she became. Rivka and Isaac from The Second Mango by Shira … Continue reading →

Posted in Mangoverse | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Queer women daydreaming together

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Shira

Shulamit and Aviva from The Second Mango by Shira Glassman; also available on Amazon. Artwork commission drawn by Jeanine Sybico. It’s important to me that we in same sex relationships get to see ourselves represented not only sensually or sexually but … Continue reading →

Posted in Mangoverse, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Climbing the Date Palm: the Mango sequel coming out summer 2014!

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Shira

I’d already written a sequel to The Second Mango before I shopped it around to publishers, so after its release, I sent it over. The title is Climbing the Date Palm and while it centers on our friends from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Mangoverse, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Win a free eBook!

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Shira

Click here to read a short guest post about my queer feminist fantasy novel The Second Mango, and also an excerpt from the end of chapter three that hasn’t been posted online yet. In The Second Mango, my fantasy novel recently published by Prizm … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Roundtable discussion: Interactions between female characters in fiction and their effect on real-life relationships between women

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Shira

The Bechdel test is a simple test that determines whether or not a movie is giving equal time to women’s interactions with other women. Is there more than one woman in the movie? Do they talk to each other? About something … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment