#Publishing

Liberal, Not Lefty

liberalnotlefty

“Haralson said none of the questions were sexual, but she did feel uncomfortable at times, especially since she says she was upfront about the fact that she was only 19”You

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dabi_hawks

The "is fanfic literature?" debate is annoying and pointless but it's so funny to me that people frame it as "fanfic is mostly garage unlike REAL LITERATURE" as if the

Dr. Kerri Pratt

ArcticKerri

.@Atmosphere_MDPI is choosing speed over quality - a thread about why I suggest not to publish, review, etc for them (beyond @MDPIOpenAccess President's stance on #BlackLivesMatter ). In May, I

Scott Stein is writing a Great American sequel

sstein

Over the past 23 years, I've had and lost 3 literary agents... 1/16 (tagging some writers in case anyone thinks worth sharing @Jacopo_della_Q @gabehudson @alex_segura @denishaughnessy @Gabino_Iglesias @ericsmithrocks @mjseidlinger @chan

Sarah Kersey

sk__poet

OK. This has me coming out of my Twitter hiatus. @TaylorByas3 is one of the most generous people on Poetry Twitter, and @CleaverMagazine, you’re coming for her? Not on my

Candice Marie Benbow

CandiceBenbow

#RedLipTheology is grounded in the belief we are whole beings. Our spiritual and sexual selves are not at war with each other. We are whole. We are good creation. #RedLipTheology

Michael Head

michaelghead

SAGE have now put out a statement, highlighting that segmentation (trying to reach #herdimmunity by letting the virus rip through a population) is not a good idea. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/a

Daniel Beizsley

DanielBeizsley

There’s been a fair bit of coverage on the £200k donation to the Tories given by Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of Russian oligarch and former Russian finance minister, but little

Peter Suber

petersuber

Since the pandemic shutdown began, journal submissions of co-authored papers, with women among the co-authors, are slightly up, and solo-authored papers by women are significantly down.https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/21/early-jo

Dogs don't have thumbs

MorlockP

1/Most of the SF being published today is not just garbage, it is a very narrow type of garbage, written by people who are more familiar with movies and videogames

Jason Sanford

jasonsanford

Been a rough week in the science fiction and fantasy genre. Heck, a rough year everywhere. To put forward some SF/F positivity, here are the genre books I’ve read in

Cami Ryan, PhD

CamiDRyan

Solicitation by predatory journals via Twitter? That’s a new one for me, but it’s happening. My story follows. Warning: its a long thread! @RetractionWatch @Jeffrey_Beall @fake_journals @TomSpears1 1/n Over the

Eerke Boiten

EerkeBoiten

Here's the @NHSX app - blog by @matthewsgould and project lead @GeraintLewis. https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/blogs/digital-contact-tracing-protecting-nhs-and-saving-lives/Message 1: "you can choose to allow the app to inform the NHS which, subject

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

Iyervval

1n The @IndianExpress has put out a piece today, quoting verbatim from a CLASSIFIED & PROPRIETARY report prepared by some colleagues 1 week back. Curiously the quoted report also conclusively

U.S. OGE

OfficeGovEthics

Prior to an election, the Presidential Transition Act requires executive branch agencies to prepare to promote the orderly transfer of power in the event that a President’s term expires. As

Lou Anders is Staying Home

LouAnders

Seeing a lot of "@DnDBeyond should give us the books for free/discounted" going around. This is nonsense. I worked in publishing for 10 years. When we converted books into ebooks