The 2012 VIDA count has been out for more than a month now, and now Strange Horizons has released their 2012 count for science fiction and fantasy. The numbers do not look good, kids. More here. I’ll be helping with CWILA’s 2012 count this year. I’ve just received my instructions. I’ll keep you posted as …
Largely Literary Linkage: The Tardis library, zines, and poets Read more »
Goth is all but gone from Queen West. Bookstores are closing. Rob “the Jerk” Ford’s approval rating is rising. (Seriously?!) What is my poor city coming to? Forget it. Escapism. That’s what the Internet’s for, right? At least in part? So, change your Twitter language settings to lolcat, and…Oh, wait. Most of these links are …
Though it can seem like it sometimes, the world’s not all bad. Apparently whales are learning to speak human, or at least trying, and that’s pretty awesome. Maybe once they get the hang of it they can advise us how to live better. Canadian publishing is about to get smaller with Douglas & McIntyre filing …
The death of literature (yes, again…), poetic dendrophiliacs, and other bookish stuff Read more »
Oh, man. Where did the month go? Never mind that, where did the year go? All the years?! Two years ago this month I quit my job. Some things have changed in that time – I’m getting more poetry acceptance letters, I’m slowly starting to creep out of my writing cave and meet other people …