Hi, everyone. Australia is burning, and we’re on the brink of World War III, so, whatever, let’s just list the most influential graphic novels I’ve never read. Yes, I’m ashamed. Hell, I even own some[…]
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Author: Jack Phoenix
OverDrive has just been bought…again.
There I was sitting comfortably on Christmas Eve, successfully ignoring my in-laws by reading an eBook borrowed through OverDrive on my Kobo, when I saw this press release. Now, I’m not knowledgeable enough in for-profit[…]
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I hired an indexer!
I learned a couple of very important things recently, things any new writer should be aware. Indexing is difficult and tedious work. Freelance indexers exist. There is an entire society of them. A friend of[…]
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Toronto Public Library may be the finest library I’ve seen
I’m here in beautiful Toronto. It’s my first time since high school, so it’s my first really experiencing this city. Is it cold? Duh. But holy cow does this place a-shimmer with Christmas lights. First[…]
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Spring 2020 – The upcoming books that have me aquiver
Hello, everyone! I hope you had a wonderful Turkey Day (in our case, it was a goose day, since turkey is dry and joyless but goose is mouthwateringly tender). Before the holiday, I had the[…]
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I made a meme, please steal it.
Hi! I’m just hopping on to say that I made a little meme. This little meme right here. Should it go viral, please let me know, since this represents how I feel aptly right now.
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Guess what, okay I’ll just tell you, I’m in a game!
A new game is out right now from a new group called Grown Men Games. It’s called Space War: In Space!! (strange fact: as far as I can tell, the Chicago Manual of Style and[…]
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Library non-troversy of the week…
Okay, look, there’s not much to say about this situation which sees artists pulling their display from a library because the library objected to sexual material in publicly-viewable spaces. In this week of actual library[…]
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Really, Macmillan…really?
I mean, really? REALLY? It’s not like I have anything to say that my library colleagues have already expressed elsewhere on the Internet, but really? You came to this conclusion after you spoke to library[…]
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Comics readers are snubbing superheroes, and I’m sad (with no disrespect to Raina Telgemeier)
“Evolve or die!” This is true for comics as it is any other medium. According to a recent article by Forbes, data is showing that, for pretty much the first time since the 10-Cent Plague,[…]
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