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Press for Robot Hearts: True & Twisted Tales of Seeking Love in the Digital Age
SheWrites.com
“When Amazon’s CreateSpace and DIY Culture Collide”
By Shawna Kenney & Cara Bruce
“Writing is one thing. Publishing is a different animal altogether. Both of us have both been published by major and independent presses, we have separate agent representation for our individual writing projects, but we started our own indie press as a natural extension of things we were working on together—teaching online writing courses and booking literary events. ”
Encore
“Digital Love: Exploring the Stories and Nightmares of Online Dating”
by Tiffanie Gabrielse
“Robot Hearts: True and Twisted Tales of Seeking Love in the Digital Age reads as more than a simple collection of love gone right or terribly wrong. It’s more than an attempt to depict how some meshed and how others got scammed in that intangible frontier beyond the modem. Instead, Bruce and Kenney’s work is written proof of the progress technology has made concerning the ways we develop relationships with others around the world.
“Robot Hearts will make readers LOL, cry with empathy and identify with individuals they have never met. Moreover, it will remind them that their love/hate courtship with the Internet may always have some amount of scandal. Personally speaking, the authors helped me stunningly recognize how the Internet’s rhythmic lifeline constantly pumps blood into my marriage. My husband and I forever seek to shrink the vast ocean between us. Robot Hearts portrays an honest look into the quest many have taken to find our basic human need: love.”
Star News Online
Bookmarks: A Site for All Things Literary
by Ben Steelman
“A surprising number of the “Robot Hearts” essayists turn out to be 40-somethings and 50-somethings, many of them re-entering the market after long marriages ended in divorce or death. At least a couple of these tales date back to the Commodore 64 era, floppy discs and 100-pound modems. The moral: True love and true hearts are as hard to find in cyberspace and real space, and the relationships are just as fraught with embarrassment and hilarity.”
AbiolaTV.com
“Robot Hearts: New Anthology about Love, Tech and Internet Dating”
Interview with Cara Bruce & Shawna Kenney
by Abiola
“Both of us met our husbands before the whole internet dating thing, but were fascinated with stories of people connecting in this new way. Even our own friendship was rekindled through Facebook. We thought it’d be fun to gather these kind of stories together in one place. We have a line of nonfiction anthologies planned—this is just the first.”
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Press for Pinchback Press
Critic’s Pick in Baltimore City Paper
Join authors Shira Tarrant, Shawna Kenney, and Cara Bruce for an evening of Feminist Sex. Reading from their latest work, these authors explore what it means to be both anti-sexist and sex-positive.
Excellent article in the Wilmington Star News Online.
Here’s a nice article that appeared in the Style Weekly promoting the March, 2009 reading.
We were featured on YoungMoney.com.
“Turn Your Passion Into an Online Business.” YoungMoney.com, June 2009.