Chicks Unravel Time - Table of Contents!

I love when an anthology's full Table of Contents is published.  Not only do you get to see, for the first time, the framing structure of a book, but also the veil is finally pulled back and you get to see all the writers in a collection.

I couldn't be more excited about Chicks Unravel Time's TOC.  We have an absolutely stunning group of essayists - they are smart, funny and fierce.  You will laugh, ponder, nod your head in agreement and, in some cases, vehemently disagree with their critiques of Doctor Who.  And that is just how it should be. If a Table of Contents is the spine of the book, its contributors are its heart and this book's heart is true.

From the Mad Norwegian Press Website

Chicks Unravel Time Table of Contents

Introduction

Regeneration - Shaping the Road Ahead by Barbara Hambly

The Doctor’s Balls by Diana Gabaldon

A Dance With Drashigs by Emma Nichols

No Competition by Una McCormack

Identity Crisis by L.M. Myles

The Still Point by Anna Bratton

For the Love of Tom by Sarah Lotz

Donna Noble Saves the Universe by Martha Wells

I’m From the TARDIS, and I’m Here to Help You:

Barbara Wright and the Limits of Intervention by Joan Frances Turner

I, Robot, You Sarah Jane: Sexual Politics in Robot by Kaite Welsh

Between Now and Now by Juliet E. McKenna

What Would Romana Do? by Lara J. Scott

The Women We Don’t See by K. Tempest Bradford

The Ultimate Sixth by Tansy Rayner Roberts

Maids and Masters: The Distribution of Power

in Doctor Who Series Three by Courtney Stoker

Robots, Orientalism and Yellowface: Minorities

in the Fourteenth Season of Doctor Who by Aliette de Bodard

David Tennant’s Bum by Laura Mead

Superficial Depth?: Spirituality in Season Eleven by Caroline Symcox

The Problem With Peri by Jennifer Pelland

All of Gallifrey’s a Stage: The Doctor in Adolescence by Teresa Jusino

All the Way Out to the Stars by Iona Sharma

Build High for Happiness! by Lynne M. Thomas

Nimons are Forever by Liz Barr

Ace Through the Looking Glass by Elisabeth Bolton-Gabrielsen

Hey, You Got Science in My Fiction! by Laura McCullough

Seven to Doomsday: The Non-Domestication  of Earthbound Doctor Who in Season Seven

  by Mags Halliday

The Sound’s the Star by Emily Kausalik

Ace Through the Looking Glass by Elisabeth Bolton-Gabrielsen

Hey, You Got Science in My Fiction! by Laura McCullough

Seven to Doomsday: The Non-Domestication

of Earthbound Doctor Who in Season Seven by Mags Halliday

The Sound’s the Star by Emily Kausalik

Harking Back and Moving On by Jenni Hughes

Anything Goes by Deborah Stanish

How the Cold War Killed the Fifth Doctor by Erica McGillivray

Waiting for the Doctor: The Women of Series Five by Seanan McGuire

Timing Malfunction: Television Movie + the BBC

Eighth Doctor Novels = A Respectable Series by Kelly Hale

Guten Tag, Hitler by Rachel Swirsky

Reversing Polarities: The Doctor, the Master and False Binaries in Season Eight

  by Amal El-Mohtar

While some of these essays may appear irreverent (where else can you find an anthology with essay titles referencing BOTH the Doctor's balls and David Tennant's bum?) they are sharp, concise and fresh critiques on all of Doctor Who.  I can't wait to see it in print!

Autumn

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird

I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

George Eliot

Autumn is finally here and good riddance to summer.  Although I'm sure we'll be on the receiving end of a few more summer-like scorchers before we get dragged into the delicious gloom. I always feel cheated when I turn the calendar to September and the weather doesn't immediately comply with crisp mornings, apple-scented afternoons and shivery nights.  But after a summer of busy, sometimes frustrating, activity, I'll take autumn on whatever terms it's offering.

On the writing front, Chicks Unravel Time is being prepped for the printer for its November release.  After going over the final PDF file of the manuscript, and reading a fantastic email from my co-editor, I've fallen in love with the book all over again.  Anyone who has ever worked on a long writing project knows the "sloggy middle" and "the bit where you never want to see this book again" but that is only temporary and gets pushed aside when it's all polished and pretty and the heart of the thing is opened for everyone to see.

I'm also very pleased to be a part of Outside In edited by Robert Smith?

If you are a Doctor Who fan I can almost guarantee you know someone in this book. While I think Robert is absolutely insane for working with 160 writers I have to admire his chutzpah and his vision. But mostly his chutzpah. ;-)  I'm really looking forward to reading all the contributions. (My perspective was on "The Claws of Axos" - Jo Grant's knickers, Bill Filer's sideburns and delicious Master snark - j'adore!)  Also noteworthy - this is the first book from the fledgling ATB Publishing. I wish them all the success with this and future projects!

As always, autumn feels like a new beginning. I can't wait for what comes next.