Happy Pride Month, loves, to the out, loud & proud– and to the quietly queer, the bi & shy, and those who have never really liked labels or big public announcements, but know who they are (and love who they are), and just go on walking the world with their own saucy rainbow glow. …
While researching my novel Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair, set in a 1980s tattoo shop, I was lucky enough to interview a handful of trailblazing women who started tattooing in the 1970s, ’80s, and early ’90s—women with fascinating stories of what it was like to apprentice in the era before YouTube tutorials, bottled ink in 50 different …
If I’ve been posting seldomly, it’s because I’ve been living muchly. Expect some posts soon with juicy details on the following: Lady tattooers and bizarre coincidences. I’ve been overhauling my novel again. It’s about a young woman aspiring to become a tattoo artist in the mid-1980s, when there were few women in the field. Recently …