Have you heard about the kerfuffle surrounding the new SFX edition about horror and the lack of female representation?

(Excuse me while the chorus warms up for the familiar refrain)

The Irish horror writer and blogger, Maura McHugh (splinister) initially pointed this out, and the Guardian's blog picked it up, as well as The F WordApparently the editor is ( Read more... )

So, today I found an email from Proinsias De Rossa (an Irish MEP) in my inbox and, as it had been ten months since I'd fired off my email to him, I had to scratch my head for a moment to remember what had annoyed me so much that I'd actually pressed the send button on my email ( Read more... )

Ack! they've deranked one of my favourite books ever: Virginia Woolf's Orlando

Where's my pitchfork?

Via 1_mad_squirrel

http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11369.html

Amazon has ripped the rankings from all the their books that has 'gay adult content' because, and I quote: In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude "adult" material from appearing in some searches and best ( Read more... )

During the last week, I’ve been reading the many thought provoking posts and essays on my friends list, discussing the latest kerfuffle involving 6A/LJ and fandom. I’ll not go into the many points raised in regards to Livejournal’s rather random usage of their TOS; other people have discussed this matter and have phrased it better than I ever could ( Read more... )

As a lot of people know on my flist, I'm in the middle of finishing up a media course at the moment, part of this course involves journalism and I've found myself researching and interviewing a variety of people as a result.My articles vary from the geeky (Gaelcon, anyone?) to the political (the M3 motorway through the Tara-Skyrne valley - who's ( Read more... )