Gina Misiroglu's Blog

• Gratitude

  November 26, 2009

  • In honor of today's blog topic, "Gratitude," I will have to unreservedly say that I am grateful to live in America. With all the anti-American sentiment spinning around the globe these days, I am grateful to live in a country that, among other things, honors the entrepreneurial spirit, freedom of speech, and basic human rights. Happy Thanksgiving to all the Red Room authors that have ...
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• Superheroine Revolution

  November 11, 2009

  • Warrior women—from Wonder Woman to Elektra to Xena to Ripley—have won a die-hard fan following among women in the last decade because, in addition to being sexy, they are strong, in control, smart, and successful. Lara Croft may have originated as pure male fantasy—a buxom video game character with impossible proportions—but on the big screen, she is, as one critic put it, ...
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• The Ever-Popular Femme Fatale

  March 3, 2009

  • As I was reading USA Today's discussion of the upcoming spy thriller Salt, and Angelina Jolie's starring role in it, I was reminded how much I love the femme fatale, a major archetype in The Supervillain Book and a leading lady in my next project. Celebrated in media from the comics to Hollywood blockbusters to tabloid pages, the femme fatale (“deadly woman” in French) is adept at love, ...
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