“There have been infights, there have been fissures, but also people are really becoming aware of what they value in a book and how that measures with what they value in reality. “Over the last decade, and particularly the last four years, there has been the same fight for diversity, equality, inclusiveness going on internally in Romancelandia that has been happening in the United States,” she says. And we vote.”Ĭole added to the chorus of voices unsurprised by the coherence between romance and politics. Romance authors and readers are accomplished, intelligent, diverse, and engaged in our communities and our democracy. “I would say the attention surrounding Stacey Abrams is letting the world see what’s been true all along. “I wouldn’t say romance writing and politics are two worlds just now coming together,” says writer Tessa Dare, who auctioned off numerous items, including a virtual tea that went for $3,750.50 and a role-playing game involving characters from her popular series Girl Meets Duke. So combining it with politics-that is part of the norm for us.” “There are a ton of lawyers, along with marine biologists, physicists, surgeons, women who work for NASA, engineers, waitresses, stay-at-home moms, Shakespeare Fellows who write romance. “Name a profession, and most likely there will be a romance writer there,” says Beverly Jenkins, a superstar in the genre, who auctioned off signed copies of her book as well as a one-hour conversation. Her podcast, Fated Mates, mobilized its listeners to phone-bank in the months leading up to the election and continues to do so now. “Happily ever after-and who gets it on the page-is political.” MacLean auctioned off a manuscript critique, which went for just over $4,000. “Romance is a political genre,” says writer Sarah MacLean, whose historical romance novels have been translated into more than 20 languages. Their daughter, Arrow de Wilde, is the lead singer for the Los Angeles-based band Starcrawler.While the runaway success of their auction may have been a bit of a surprise, the happy intersection of politics and Romancelandia (as the community is often known) does not surprise the writers. Footage from their wedding appeared in the music video for "By Your Side" by Beachwood Sparks. Personal lifeĭe Wilde was married to drummer Aaron Sperske. In 2022, De Wilde photographed Florence Welch for Vogue UK ahead of the release of Florence and the Machine's album release Dance Fever. She previously directed segments of the HBO documentary Six by Sondheim. It included her one-of-a-kind Polaroid photograph from the Impossible Project/Decemberists series, and a 72-page hardcover book with over 250 of her Polaroid photos and illustrations by Carson Ellis.ĭe Wilde made her directorial feature film debut with the 2020 film Emma., adapted from Jane Austen's novel of the same name, starring Anya Taylor-Joy. In 2011, her work was extensively featured in the limited edition deluxe box version of The Decemberists album The King Is Dead. In 2010, de Wilde provided commentary on a series of reissues of the back catalog of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, appearing in the accompanying documentaries entitled "Do You Love Me Like I Love You". In 2007 Chronicle Books released a book, Elliott Smith, that includes de Wilde's photographs of musician Elliott Smith as well as handwritten lyrics, interviews with close friends and family, and a bonus CD of a live performance. She has also documented couture designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte. Her photos have appeared on the cover of Spin magazine and in the pages of Rolling Stone, Filter, Nylon, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times. Her live concert documentary work includes The Flaming Lips, Spoon, and the Arcade Fire. Her portrait subjects include Willie Nelson, Sean Watkins, Ryan Adams, Sonic Youth, Tegan and Sara, and Wolfmother. She has directed music videos for Beck, The Decemberists, Elliott Smith, Florence and the Machine, Spoon, Ingrid Michaelson, The Raconteurs, Rilo Kiley and Death Cab for Cutie. Careerĭe Wilde has photographed CD covers for Miranda Cosgrove, Elliott Smith, She & Him, Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, The Raconteurs, The White Stripes, Fiona Apple, Beck, Built to Spill, Wilco, Monsters of Folk, New Found Glory, and a number of other musicians. She received no formal photography training, but learned it from her father Jerry de Wilde, an art and commercial photographer most noted for his photos of Jimi Hendrix and other musicians at the Monterey Pop Festival, and other icons of the 1960s. De Wilde was born in Woodstock, New York.
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