Violet Blue now writing a sex column at the Chron!
Not just 'plucked' from the blogosphere to freelance for a 141-year-old mainstream media institution; Phil Bronstein hand-selected me to be their frontline sex writer, with a column and everything that comes with it. I just got home from the Chronicle building -- today was the final meeting with the PR department, and to set the launch date (I wore my Laughing Squid shirt to the meeting). At one point David Wiegand said, "We're just making sure it's okay before we plaster your face on buses." I don't remember my reaction to this, though my memory tells me I shrieked like a little girl and ran in tight little circles with clenched fists tight against my sides in the middle of the circled chairs of Chron/SFGate staff. I think I actually said "yikes" in an extremely composed way. I'm pretty sure he was teasing. Ulp.
My column launches on September 21, the day before my birthday. It will be every thursday, and I'll have an RSS feed for you to subscribe to. The Chronicle is planning all kinds of crazy publicity for the launch, and the column is called "violet blue: open source sex". Nothing else will change; my blogging, my work, my snarkiness torwad MSM and the Chron, none of it. Yay!
I am, in fact, totally freaking out right now. This was the big news I've been alluding to for the past few weeks. If you want to hear the whole story, what I'm up against, how important I feel this is for local sex culture and online media, how fierce my deal is with them and what I think about being a blogger writing for a paper I'm extremely critical of, it's all after the jump.
Violet Blue is one of my blogging heroes. I love the way she covers sex in her blog, and also the myriad of other topics that appear there, like politics, pictures, YouTube links. It's exactly the right mixture of the personal and the topical.
This is extremely awesome for her and for all of us readers.
