This rant is apropos of nothing. Also, just kinda ranty. ( Hidden for your friends-page pleasure )

Dear Phone-call Aficionados ( Read more... )

On Scott Eagan's blog today, he talked about social media and the publishing industry. I follow his blog, but I also follow a large number of other publishing and writing blogs…and Twitter streams, etc.

His top points were:

• Social media is "a necessary evil" for book promotion
  
• You need to maintain with daily posts and updates -- he struggles with ( Read more... )

Dear Washington State ( Read more... )

The drama has me going back months and years and reading a slew of essays on the nature of fanfic - social, sociological, economic. (Heck! I wrote a linguistics paper once on the exclamation points in things like Kitty!Avon and Angry!Snape ( Read more... )