Nasty Girls

This week’s other featured books, “Stop Thinking Thoughts That Scare You,” by Noa Shaw, “Rattlesnake Road,” by Amanda McKinney and “The Children in the Shed,” by B.M. Simpson, can be found by scrolling down below this post, or by clicking the author’s name on our Authors page.

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THE BOOK: Nasty Girls.

PUBLISHED IN: 2020.

THE AUTHOR: Lynne Bronstein

 THE EDITOR: Don Kingfisher Campbell.

THE PUBLISHER: Four Feathers Publishing.

SUMMARY: Poetry about women who defied sexual mores and other biases against women.

THE BACK STORY: The “Me Too” movement made me want to show how women through the ages have been blamed for their own sexuality. 

WHY THIS TITLE? The song by Vanity 6 — except that I am subverting it by mocking how people think women are “nasty” for simply owning their sexuality.

WHY SOMEONE WOULD WANT TO READ IT? To learn about what actually happened to some well-known historical women as well as learning about less well-known women who were also maligned for their behavior.

REVIEW COMMENTS:

“I thought it was phenomenal. Beautifully written and I learned so much about so many people I “knew” and so many I didn’t! I loved this: “But that was not courage, mes amis It was presence of mind.“ That sums up every time I’ve been “brave”! I’m glad the collection has been such a success for you!!” — Harker Jones.

AUTHOR PROFILE: Lynne Bronstein is the author of four poetry collections, Astray from Normalcy, Roughage, Thirsty in the Ocean, and Border Crossings. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in magazines, newspapers, anthologies, and on web sites, including Playgirl, Beyond Baroque Obras, California State Poetry Quarterly, VolNo, Electrum, Poetry Superhighway, poeticdiversity, Silver Birch Press, Chiron Review, Galway Review, Lummox, Spectrum, Voices from Leimert Park, The Art of Being Human, Revolutionary Poets Brigade, Free Venice Beachhead, Caffeine, OnTarget, Subtletea, The Stone Bird, and Al-Khemia. In addition, she has been a journalist for five decades, writing for the Los Angeles Times and other Los Angeles area newspapers. She adapted Shakespeare’s As You Like It as a contemporary Valley-speak spoof which was performed at the Studio City and Hollywood public libraries. She has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes for poetry and for four Best of the Net Awards for poetry and short fiction. She won a prize for her short story “Why Me” and two prizes from Channel 37 public access for news writing. She has taught poetry and journalism workshops for children at 826LA and for the Arcadia Library and was cited by the city and county of Los Angeles for her mentoring work with Jewish Vocational Service. She has also published a short story in the crime fiction anthology Last Resort from Sisters in Crime. A native New Yorker and LA transplant, she lives in Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley and has three cats.

AUTHOR COMMENTS: Please read my book. It is indeed an E-book. But this is the future, right?

SAMPLE:  

Anne Boleyn

Henry

Was such a typical guy.

Before we married

He was plaintive,

Courteous,

Courtly,

Expressing his love in song,

Willing to change

The local customs

And even the church of his nation

For the love, and winning, of me.

But he never changed himself.

After he had made our bed groan

With the consummation

Decried by the hating crowd

Outside the palace,

It was as if he joined the hating crowd

Shouting along with them

“No Nan Boleyn for us!”

He ordered the sharpening

Of the Calais executioner’s sword

All for the hatred, and losing, of me.

Until they get you

They love you.

After they get you

They get someone else

And send you to the scaffold,

And that

It seems,

Is the way of the world.

LOCAL OUTLETS: To purchase go to PayPal.me/LynneBronstein. Or, my VenMo address is VenMo@Lynne-Bronstein

WHERE ELSE TO BUY IT: I can’t afford the fees yet for Amazon et al.

PRICE: $4.00.

CONTACT THE AUTHOR: tanysare@earthlink.net