Kathleen Smith is, by her own admission, an unabashed fangirl. In addition to being a licensed therapist and a mental health journalist, she runs a site called Fangirl Therapy, where she answers fandom-related questions and publishes pieces about her own fandom experiences.

She’s also a TMS contributor, having published a piece for us last year on Mental Health Awareness Week—and her new book, The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal, was just published by Penguin Random House! TMS caught up with Smith via email to dive into a discussion on her new book and how we can relate our fandom life to our IRL experiences.

TMS: What are your personal long-time fandoms?

KS: I lurked on the LOST message boards for a long time, but my first was definitely the Glee fandom. I hopped off after a few seasons, but I made a lot of lifelong friends. I was also obsessed with Battlestar Galactica, but I was mainly active in the “Mary McDonnell hair” contingent. My fandom experience usually revolves around actress worship rather than a show or story. It’s a long list of women who continue to both ruin and make my life.

Read the whole interview at themarysue.com and buy your copy of The Fangirl Life on Penguin Random House or Amazon (don’t forget you can use smile.amazon.com to purchase something and donate to a cause of your choice! Sinte Gleska University is also one of the choices.)

Take a look in the gallery for HQ stills of next episode of Major Crimes, titled Skin Deep.

When Flynn looks into purchasing a new home and seeks input from Provenza and Buzz, an unexpected turn of events leads to a new investigation for Major Crimes. Meanwhile, Buzz continues to look into the circumstances surrounding his father’s murder

Hello my dear followers.
We get to second podcast by Christine Rogers in which she discusses on Major Crimes episode 2 and 3 and Mary’s podcast.

Admin Note: This is a personal point of view, which doesn’t want to be an imposition of her opinions on yours. There are some points in this audio I don’t agree with and still Christine and I are friends. This is being said because we’d love to read your thoughts, you can comment here, under this post and we’d really love that BUT, every comment is moderated by me and I will not, under any circumstance, allow any bashing, or insulting, or anything against Christine and her thoughts. I want it to be clear. We can all have a discussion abotu how we feel in harmony and peace.

So listen and comment. Enjoy!

Take a look at a preview from next episode of Major Crimes. The episode will air not this Monday but the next one so in two weeks July 11th!

What an episode people. It was a very strong content and perfectly played and written. Such amazing!
Enjoy screencaptures from last night’s episode of Major Crimes.

Take a look at the video live chat that Mary and James did before tonight’s episode aired. Some interesting questions were answered.

Take a look for a still of Sharon and her boys from next week’s episode of Major Crimes!