{"id":1208,"date":"2008-10-07T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T15:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2008-10-07T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T15:11:35","slug":"top-10-reasons-to-visit-gwp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/10\/07\/top-10-reasons-to-visit-gwp\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Reasons to Visit GWP&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Oh&#8211;wait!\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re already here.\u00c2\u00a0 YAY! But in case anyone missed it, here&#8217;s the message from the GWP quarterly e-blast sent yesterday, chock full o links.\u00c2\u00a0 Just wanted to share&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8211; Deborah<\/em><\/div>\n<p><div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Dear Friends,<\/div>\n<p><div style=\"text-align: left\">With great pleasure, I share the news that starting in October 2008, my blog <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=pk6mcscab.0.0.ei84e8bab.0&amp;ts=S0371&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fgirlwpen.com&amp;id=preview\" target=\"_blank\">Girl w\/ Pen<\/a> has more regular columnists, more issues, and more of you!\u00c2\u00a0 Traffic has gone up, up, up.\u00c2\u00a0 Our posts get circulated around the Net.\u00c2\u00a0 But you still gotta go to GWP to see it first.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline\">Top 10 Reasons to Visit GWP:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1.\u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold\"> We&#8217;ve cloned! <\/span> Instead of just me, you can now read weekly musings from my fellow scholarblogger in sociology, science, history, psychology, business, women&#8217;s studies, and international women&#8217;s development&#8211;as well as insights from a book editor and a blogging maven with tricks of the trade to share.2. My new co-GWPenner-in-chief Kristen <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">blogs like nobody&#8217;s business<\/span> about public conceptions of the <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=pk6mcscab.0.0.ei84e8bab.0&amp;ts=S0371&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fgirlwpen.com%2F%3Fp%3D1089&amp;id=preview\" target=\"_blank\">hook-up generation<\/a>&#8211;aka, her own.<br \/>\n3. Jacqueline, a PhD in couple and family therapy,\u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">tells it like it is<\/span> in her recent post on <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=pk6mcscab.0.0.ei84e8bab.0&amp;ts=S0371&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fgirlwpen.com%2F%3Fp%3D1103&amp;id=preview\" target=\"_blank\">heteroflexibility<\/a>.<br \/>\n4.\u00c2\u00a0 <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">We don&#8217;t cat blog.<\/span> Only sometimes we do.\u00c2\u00a0 But only <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=pk6mcscab.0.0.ei84e8bab.0&amp;ts=S0371&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fgirlwpen.com%2F%3Fp%3D81&amp;id=preview\" target=\"_blank\">once<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=pk6mcscab.0.0.ei84e8bab.0&amp;ts=S0371&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fgirlwpen.com%2F%3Fp%3D798&amp;id=preview\" target=\"_blank\">twice<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Ok, ok, maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=pk6mcscab.0.0.ei84e8bab.0&amp;ts=S0371&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fgirlwpen.com%2F%3Fp%3D1129&amp;id=preview\" target=\"_blank\">thrice<\/a>.<br \/>\n5.\u00c2\u00a0 Virginia was among the <span style=\"font-style: italic;font-weight: bold\">first <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">in the whole wide blogosphere<\/span> to post on <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=pk6mcscab.0.0.ei84e8bab.0&amp;ts=S0371&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fgirlwpen.com%2F%3Fp%3D1097&amp;id=preview\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Palin as American Idol<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s right.\u00c2\u00a0 You heard it on GWP <span style=\"font-style: italic\">first.<\/span><br \/>\n6.\u00c2\u00a0 Elline, author of the hot forthcoming Seal Studies book on Girls and Feminism, serves up <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=pk6mcscab.0.0.ei84e8bab.0&amp;ts=S0371&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fgirlwpen.com%2F%3Fp%3D1144&amp;id=preview\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=pk6mcscab.0.0.ei84e8bab.0&amp;ts=S0371&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fgirlwpen.com%2F%3Fp%3D1061&amp;id=preview\" target=\"_blank\">reviews <\/a>with <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">style<\/span>.<br \/>\n7. Laura, the <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">amazing editor who teaches MediaBistro&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=pk6mcscab.0.0.ei84e8bab.0&amp;ts=S0371&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediabistro.com%2F&amp;id=preview\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Secrets Behind Writing and Selling Your First Book,&#8221;<\/a> hips GWP readers on things like what<a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=pk6mcscab.0.0.ei84e8bab.0&amp;ts=S0371&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fgirlwpen.com%2F%3Fp%3D747&amp;id=preview\" target=\"_blank\"> editors really look for in proposals.<\/a><br \/>\n8. Courtney and I regularly <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=pk6mcscab.0.0.ei84e8bab.0&amp;ts=S0371&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fgirlwpen.com%2F%3Fp%3D1188&amp;id=preview\" target=\"_blank\">rap about bridging generational difference<\/a> among feminists, and our partner-in-crime Gloria Feldt makes<span style=\"font-weight: bold\"> frequent appearances<\/span> here at GWP too.<br \/>\n9.\u00c2\u00a0 <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">A host of new columns<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=pk6mcscab.0.0.ei84e8bab.0&amp;ts=S0371&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fgirlwpen.com%2F%3Fp%3D1138&amp;id=preview\" target=\"_blank\">XY Files<\/a> (myths and facts on a new generation of men), Girl Talk (truths and fictions about girls), <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=pk6mcscab.0.0.ei84e8bab.0&amp;ts=S0371&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fgirlwpen.com%2F%3Fp%3D501&amp;id=preview\" target=\"_blank\">Nice Work<\/a> (social science in the real world), Global Exchange, a column on gender and science&#8230;oh my!<br \/>\n10.\u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold\"> All of YOU<\/span>!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The GWP readership is gosh darn brilliant, \u00c2\u00a0doggonit.\u00c2\u00a0 As such, we&#8217;ll soon be posting some of your comments as posts titled &#8220;Your Ink&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 So stay tuned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Meanwhile, may the Fall season find you nestled into your projects with renewed commitment, sipping pumpkin lattes, canvassing for Barak Obama, and, as always, pursuing your wildest dreams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Warm wishes,<br \/>\nDeborah (still your girl with the pen)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh&#8211;wait!\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re already here.\u00c2\u00a0 YAY! 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