My name's Mary Borsellino, and I'm currently a freelance media and fiction writer in Australia. I'm a Jill-of-all-trades when it comes to words: if you want it written, I'll do my best to write it, and I'm always interested in talking to people who can in some way help me avoid growing up and getting a real job.

 

Music

I enjoy doing music-related journalism very much. You can sometimes find interviews by me in Tsunami, a free street press mag, or on the site FasterLouder. Some of the music interviews are:

Case #183(a) is an information resource about the music video for Fall Out Boy's A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More 'Touch Me'.

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Books, Film, and TV

Super Interviews is a comprehensive archive of the interviews I've done with people involved with the horror/drama television show Supernatural. These include:

  • Cast members
  • Script writers
  • Directors
  • Producers
  • Composers
  • Storyboard artists

Nowhere Elaborated is an information resource about, and cultural analysis of, Rosie Cotton, a character from The Lord of the Rings.

Pretty Good Year is a fanfiction story set between the paragraphs in the final scenes of The Lord of the Rings. Site also includes artwork, fiction by other writers, and translations.

Some articles I've written about books, film, television, and other pop media:

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Comics

Girl-Wonder.org is a feminist activism website I co-founded and participate in.

I'm a regular contributor to the comics webzine Sequential Tart, where my articles have included:

EvenRobins.net is a site I run about some of Batman's less fortunate sidekicks.

An essay by me about some of the gender tensions present in the character of Robin is archived at Girl-Wonder.org. Read it here.

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In Print

Batman Unauthorized: Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City is an anthology of analysis centred about Batman and his chums, and includes an essay written by me about the Wayne family.

The Neil Gaiman Reader is a collection of essays about the work of Neil Gaiman, including my piece Pink and Blue: Gender in 'the Sandman'.

Watch it for the Plot is a collection of essays about Supernatural, and includes a feminist critique / comparison to Buffy of the show by me.

Five Minute Fantasies (volume 2) is a collection of short erotic stories and includes First Time For Everything by me.

Lotripping 2004 is a perfect-bound fanzine which includes my story Eleven ways not to start an autobiography.

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Interviews with me

The Spring 2007 issue of Bitch magazine includes the article "Cold Shoulder: Saving superheroines from comic-book violence", which contains a number of quotes from me. Read it here.

The Spring 2008 issue of Bitch includes "Whack Attack—Giving the finger to blog bandits", an article which quotes me. Find out more here.

The CW Source has done an article about my Supernatural interviews. Read it here.

YEN magazine ran an article about sexism in comics, which they interviewed me for. See a scan here.

Sequential Tart ran an interview with me, focused on my comics academia. Read it here.

Sequential Tart also featured a round-table interview with a number of the Girl-Wonder.org staff. Read it here.

A Mythlore paper, "Reimagining Rose: portrayals of Tolkien's Rosie Cotton in twenty-first century fan fiction", includes an analysis of my stories. Read it here.

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Contact

If you really must, you can add me on facebook or myspace.

Your best bet is email.

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