Talk:Sub Rosa (novel)

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Sub Rosa Project

This page is a work in progress. As part of a UBC Edit-a-thon focusing on CanLit, our group has chosen to work on a page for Sub Rosa by Amber Dawn. Our goal is to focus on underrepresented groups, and there is no page at all for Sub Rosa. As a book that won the Lambda award we feel it deserves representation as a Canadian LGBTQ* novel. Work will be ongoing in our group sandbox for the duration of the project during March 2017. Please feel free to contribute by posting on this page's talkpage, and follow our progress at this sandbox: User:Nsyguo/sandbox OlaL101 (talk)

Sources for Sub Rosa:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/review-sub-rosa-by-amber-dawn/article1315650/ Karol.pasciano (talk) 23:04, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

http://www.straight.com/article-331310/vancouver/book-review-sub-rosa-amber-dawn Karol.pasciano (talk) 23:04, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Amber Dawn has an article in this anthology which might mention the book: http://webcat1.library.ubc.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=28246&recCount=100&recPointer=1&bibId=8526604 Karol.pasciano (talk) 23:04, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Literature Resource Centre. Good summary of Amber Dawn and a subsection on Sub Rosa specifically: "Amber Dawn." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2012. Literature Resource Center, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&u=ubcolumbia&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CH1000203285&asid=af5839aa25349037121f6fa8d1cbb93b. Accessed 7 Mar. 2017. OlaL101 (talk) 23:08, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Suggestion for sections - Plot - Main Characters - Reception - Reviews - Prizes - See also

Karol.pasciano (talk) 22:55, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Team Sub Rosa - your draft article is looking good. I have just a couple of small suggestions. First, you might want to consider expanding the intro section (above the table of contents) a bit. If someone is only going to scan that section of the article, what summary information about the book is important that they take away? For me, I might want to know that it has won awards, is the author's debut novel, and maybe a sentence about the key theme. You've also done a nice job of linking to other Wikipedia articles, but don't forget to link to the Amber Dawn article (and once your article is published, you can go to that page and create a link to your article). You may also want to change the name of the Reviews section to Reception or Critical Reception and in that section change the tense to past tense ("The Globe and Mail’s Jim Bartley remarked"). Cheers! Will (talk) 18:58, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Will, thank you for your suggestions and for your help in improving this article. I've reviewed the previously titled "Reviews" section and changed its name too. Our team will be working on the into to the article in the next few days. The plan is to have a polished draft by Tuesday afternoon, prior to another Edit-a-thon session. Cheers! Karol.pasciano (talk) 03:53, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Sounds good - after it's published, you might want to consider adding a book cover image to the infobox and I can help out on that today. Cheers, Will (talk) 18:41, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Category question

I haven't read the novel myself, so I don't know if Category:Novels with lesbian themes would be an appropriate or accurate description of its content or not. Are there specifically lesbian themes in it, or would it be better described as "bisexual" or "queer" (which don't have dedicated categories yet even though they probably should)? Bearcat (talk) 21:56, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Although Amber Dawn is a lesbian writer, I think the novel focuses more on a straight relationship, as Little appears to be female and Arson appears to be male. As well, it also seems to have heterosexual relationships between johns and the prostitutes. I think queer themes might be more accurate. This article gives more insight if you're interested! https://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/hello-world/ Thanks for all your help so far! OlaL101 (talk) 22:17, 21 March 2017 (UTC)