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Whedonistas: Celebrating Joss Whedon

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Published on November 30, 2010

Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them
Whedonistas
Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them

From the editor and publisher of Chicks Dig Time Lords comes another geekgirl project of epic proportions! Mad Norwegian Press presents Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon By the Women Who Love Them, edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Deborah Stanish.

Like Chicks Dig Time Lords did for Doctor Who, Whedonistas invited female sci-fi/fantasy writers as well as women who are active in fandom to contribute essays about their relationship to the Whedonverse. It goes on sale to the general public on March 15, 2011, but will be officially launched and available for purchase at Gallifrey One this year!

In addition to featuring exclusive interviews with Jane Espenson and Juliet Landau, the volume features essays from some of the most exciting voices in sci-fi and fantasy, including Seanan McGuire, Lyda Morehouse, Caroline Symcox, Catherynne M. Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, Teresa Jusino…

That’s right—my essay, Why Joss is More Important Than His ‘Verse, is included in this tome. Something I’m more than honored by. Squeeful about, even.

While the book won’t be released until March, it can be preordered! If you’re in the process of going holiday shopping for the Browncoats in your life, look no further than this book! And you can expect to hear more from me about it in the months ahead. And while I’m on the subject of Joss Whedon, I’d just like to say: No Joss, No Buffy.  Thank you.


Teresa Jusino was born the same day Skylab fell. Coincidence? She doesn’t think so. She is a freelance writer in New York City who is a regular contributor to websites like ChinaShop Magazine, Pink Raygun, and Newsarama. In addition to her geeky online scribblings, she also writes prose fiction and screenplays. Her fiction has appeared in the sci-fi magazine, Crossed Genres, and her non-fiction is being published in Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon By the Women Who Love Them, to be released March 2011 by Mad Norwegian Press. Teresa is the author of a chapbook of short stories called On the Ground Floor, and she is working on a webseries called The Pack, coming in 2011. Get Twitterpated with Teresa or visit her at The Teresa Jusino Experience.

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Teresa Jusino was born the day Skylab fell. Coincidence? She doesn't think so. A native New Yorker, Jusino has been telling stories since she was three years old, and she wrote a picture book in crayon in nursery school. However, nursery school also found her playing the angel Gabriel in a Christmas pageant, and so her competing love of performing existed from an early age. Her two great loves competed all the way through early adulthood. She attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she majored in Drama and English Literature, after which she focused on acting, performing in countless plays and musicals in and around New York City, as well as short films, feature length independent films, and the one time she got to play an FBI agent in a PBS thing, which she thought was really cool, because she got to wear sunglasses and a dark suit and look badass. Eventually, producing was thrown into the mix. For four years, she was a company member and associate producer for a theater company called Stone Soup Theater Arts. She also produced a musical in which she also performed at Theater For the New City called Emergency Contraception: The Musical! by Sara Cooper, during which she ended every performance covered in fake blood. Don't ask. After eight years of acting, Jusino decided that she missed her first love – writing – and in 2008 decided to devote herself wholly to that pursuit. She has since brought her "feminist brown person" perspective to pop culture criticism at such diverse sites as Tor.com, ChinaShop Magazine, PopMatters, Newsarama, Pink Raygun, as well as her own blog, The Teresa Jusino Experience (teresajusino.wordpress.com), and her Tumblr for feminist criticism, The Gender Blender (tumblwithteresa.tumblr.com). She is also the editor of a Caprica fan fiction site called Beginning of Line (beginningofline.weebly.com), because dammit, that was a good show, and if SyFy won't tell any more of those characters' stories, she'll do it herself. Her travel-writer alter ego is Geek Girl Traveler, and her travel articles can be followed at ChinaShop while she herself can be followed on Twitter (@teresajusino). Her essay, "Why Joss is More Important Than His 'Verse" can be found in the book Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon By the Women Who Love Them (Mad Norwegian Press). In addition to her non-fiction, Jusino is also a writer of fiction. Her short story, December, was published in Issue #24 of the sci-fi literary journal, Crossed Genres. A writer of both prose and film/television scripts, she relocated to Los Angeles in September 2011 to give the whole television thing a whirl. She'll let you know how that goes just as soon as she stops writing bios about herself in the third person.
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