The Secret Loves of Geek Girls #1

All-star lineup of female writers and illustrators!

The Secret Loves of Geek Girls is a nonfiction anthology mixing prose, comics, and illustrated stories on the lives and loves of an amazing cast of female creators. Featuring work by Margaret Atwood (The Heart Goes Last), Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer), Trina Robbins (Wonder Woman), Marguerite Bennett (Marvel’s A-Force), Noelle Stevenson (Nimona), Marjorie Liu (Monstress), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), and over fifty more creators, it’s a compilation of tales told from both sides of the tables: from the fans who love video games, comics, and sci-fi to those that work behind the scenes as creators and industry insiders.

Features comics written and drawn by Margaret Atwood.

Cover by Noelle Stevenson (Lumberjanes).

Foreword by Kelly Sue DeConnick (Bitch Planet).

Contents

• Breather
• Geek Girls Bonding
• Note From the Editor
• Foreword
• Introductions
• Comics
• Minas Tirith
• Settings
• The Control Systems of Desire
• Lungerella
• Anne of Linux Pine
• Waxing Moon
• How Fanfiction Made Me Gay
• A Divorcee's Guide To the Apocalypse
• Cherry
• Bemused
• Both Sides of the Table and Between the Sheets
• Babes On A Bike
• Fanfiction, F/F. Angst
• Cosplay Love
• URL > IRL
• Shipping
• Leveling Up Your Dating Profile
• Read: 1:19 A.M.
• Mashing Our BUttons
• Mechanism
• I'm Your Biggest Fan
• Yes, No, Maybe
• How Fanfic From An American Girl Captured An English Boy
• They Bury You In White
• A Different Kind of Fantasy Role-Play
• Nerd Love
• Giant-Sized Regrets
• Puzzled Over Pints
• Four Fictional Happy Endings
• Menage A 3/Sticky Dilly Buns
• Ghost Stories
• There's Nothing Wrong, It Must Be Love
• We Weren't Even Dating Yet
• Girls With Slingshots
• Rise of the Late Bloomer
• None the Wiser
• Heard It Through the Grapevine
• Regards To the Goblin King
• Never Kiss A Writer
• Why I Know My Partner Is Really A Superhero
• Armor
• Ghost
• Pop Culture Metaphor
• A Geek Girl Room of Your Own
• Kids These Days
• May I Admire You Again Today?
• Montreal, 1993
• Love In the Time of Ethernet: Geeks & LDR
• A First
• The Vulcan In Me
• Better Than Fiction
• Popping The Heat Sink
• Geek Girls