Leah Price's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading" (2019), p. 23:

"Perhaps print is to digital as Madonna is to whore: we worship one but use the other."

The First Outlander Printing Post No One WantedAll screencaps are from 3x07 "Creme de Menthe." So, remember how the last post was about everything they got right about printing? Well, this one is about everything they got wrong ( Read more... )

(Found at Todd's behest.)

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*dreamy sigh*

I have waited three years to make this post, ISTFG ( Read more... )

So a friend of Todd's is selling off his printshop, so we're going in together to buy some type and other stuff. So this is part of the conversation we had this morning ( Read more... )

GEORGE R. R. MARTIN’S SISTER: THE ECONOMICS OF BEING A WRITER

These economic realities are a huge challenge to both fairness and diversity for authors. Yet, while the debate on diversity and representation rages in the genre - in particularly in the US - almost no one is discussing the how economics of being an author silences the working class ( Read more... )

Scott and I started inadvisedly coming up with printer pick-up lines ( Read more... )

It's still in storage but I took Scott out to visit it today, because it is lonely and wants attention ( Read more... )

This is a chapter for my printerfic novel I've been revising for my creative writing class. You know, the seventeenth century one about the girl who wants to be a printer so she crossdresses (as happens) and runs into hijinks (as happens) and prints (as happens if I'm writing it). Anyone with some spare time and the will to concrit will be LOVED ( Read more... )

So yeah, hi, been a while. Here's a wicked round-up of lots of things.

marthawells's new book is out!! Go get it!!

reena-jenkins did an awesome podfic of one of my Avengers fics. Give it a listen and feel holidaysey!!!!

A friend has a tutorial on woodcutting and letterpress printing holiday cards that is exceedingly cool. I added a link to Jen's blog for Anise Press ( Read more... )