Please Forgive Me And My Slacker Ways

First off, I must apologize because it feels like a million years since I’ve updated my site. Every week, I swore that I’d write a post all about my latest goings-on, but then something would inevitably get in the way—i.e. a hike, a trip to the grocery store, or a “Battle of the ADAs” marathon of Law And Order: SVU on the USA Network—and I would get distracted, leaving my laptop to remain unopened on the dining room table. While... Read More

Is 2011 The Year Of The Geek Girl?

Reason #189654789345 I love my editor, Stephanie: She writes amazing columns for YourItList.com pondering the possibility of 2011 being “The Year of the Geek Girl.” Not only is my book, Geek Girls Unite, included in her argument, but she also mentions an exciting event going down in Seattle this October. It’s called Geek Girl Con and it’s going to be off the chain! How do I know? Because I may or may not be involved with it. (Nod,... Read More

More about Leslie Simon

Leslie is the author of Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks and Other Misfits Are Taking Over the World, out now through It Books. She is also the author of Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes and co-author of Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture. She currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.