Another wonderful article by Jess DeCourcy Hinds and I am happy to see so many librarians that I’m honored to know, being recognized!
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Image shows a stack of P.A. Cornell’s retrofuturistic novelette SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL next to an antique typewriter.
TEXT READS: Want to know a way that you can help your favourite author without it costing you a cent? It’s easy, just request that your local library carry their books. This is especially helpful in some countries, including the one where I live. Here, the Canada Council for the Arts has a program called the Public Lending Right (PLR) that supports both our libraries and Canadian authors like me. How it works is that whenever someone borrows one of our books from a Canadian library, we get a small amount of money—at the end of the year, the Canada Council for the Arts sends us the total payment. But this doesn’t just mean a little extra money in our pockets, it also tells us that people are reading our work, which is priceless! Just today I received a cheque for my book LOST CARGO which is no longer even in print, but since it is available in some libraries—thanks to readers who requested it—I’m still earning a little money for it. Now that SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL is published, it would be extremely helpful to me if readers request that their library carry it. Even if you don’t live in Canada, getting my book in libraries anywhere in the world helps readers find me and my work, which is wonderful for helping me grow my audience. This is one of the best and simplest ways to encourage an author to keep writing. My thanks to those who have done this for my work. And thanks in advance for anyone who does this for my current book.
A few words on how to help an author out without spending any money…
Would love some stickers.
Poetry.
Shout out to your totally tubular dance parties on JoCo.
I'm sure there's been frustration with genre labels when it was only bookstore shelves, but in the SEO era it feels really difficult to introduce a story to the world when it's the First of its Hashtag.
Y'all should read this piece by @mollytempleton.com exploring the blurriness of genre definition.
Blurring even further is very much what we're trying to do with each issue.
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We want stories that are speculative but literary but strange but playful but familiar but odd but timey wimey but fantastical but grounded but character-driven but plot-focused but mythical but serious but wondrous but philosophical but breathless but deep but romp-y but wild but post-genre but
This is fantastic. Genre labels can be helpful for navigating to my next read, but are misleading (sometimes poisonous) as artistic categories. Some of this is reflected in how many lit mags seek out misfits. There are more "misfits" out there than people might think!
part who-knows-what of an ongoing conversation with myself, in column form! these are not final, authoritative thoughts, partly because I am just not that interested in final, authoritative thoughts, but I do authoritatively feel that an us vs. them approach to genres is a mistake
A partial list of the songs mentioned in @cornellwriter.bsky.social's coming-of-age emotion-bomb "The Soundtrack of My Afterlife":
Right Here, Right Now by Jesus Jones
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper
Where Is My Mind? by Pixies
+ a lot more
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One was a hive of bees, one was an enchanted cutlass, and one was a digital screen prototype made by the Waterbury Clock Company.
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
Cover for March issue of Locus, with a shadowy landscape with strange trees wreathed in mist under a sky with a huge satellite or other planet.
My latest short fiction review column is in the March issue of Locus Magazine: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...
Poetry.
One was a hive of bees, one was an enchanted cutlass, and one was a digital screen prototype made by the Waterbury Clock Company.
There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now
My short story, "With Her Serpent Locks," receives the deep dive treatment on a recent episode of @writingexcuses.bsky.social. Listen here: writingexcuses.com/21-07-deep-d...
Ghosts don't sleep & therefore find it very interesting when human go to bed. This is fine and it is good for them to be curious about the living. Unfortunately, if they let themselves be seen, humans find them incredibly intrusive & creepy, which ruins their attempts at sleep, & angers the ghosts!
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
Happy #DeLaSoulDay! 3/3 🌼🌼🌼
Celebrate with us at the @npr.org Tiny Desk ☁️🏠⛅️ youtu.be/5AVYDHTOixU?... #TinyDesk #NPRTinyDeskConcert
I wrote a personal essay about my love for bittersweet endings and LOTR, via the awfulness of the year 2001. And uh I wasn't expecting history to be rhyming quite so hard this week but here we are 😓
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Going to AWP? See you at booth 442. Clarkesworld robot (head and shoulders) looks to the right, where the cover of issue #234 is located. Includes url clarkesworldmagazine.com in the lower left corner.
We're heading to AWP in Baltimore this week. If you'll be there, drop by booth #442 and say hi.
Word I had to add to my word processor's spellcheck dictionary because of @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social:
"ooo-OO-oooo"
So, I was on Speculative Sundays this past weekend, and it's now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8t0...
Akua, the host, asked me where my dragon love comes from.
. . . Anne McCaffrey's Pern. I was ALL about unicorns till I read the Harper trilogy at 11 or 12. It's been dragons ever since.
Hotel room number 1408. Like the horror movie featuring John Cusack
Lol I'm in danger
Hailey Piper holding up the new edition of her book No Gods for Drowning, cover art by Anna Chiara Stagi
My baby is back in print today 🥰
A woman trying to save her city has to slit a few throats to do it in this noir-inspired dark fantasy world, a story I wanted to tell that was the reason I became a writer.
NO GODS FOR DROWNING, out now from Bad Hand Books 🔪🌊
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TV screen set to a colorful test pattern with the words “keep on kissing” over top
World War II–era U.S. War Food Administration poster reading “YOUR VICTORY GARDEN counts more than ever!” in large blue letters at the top. The illustration features oversized vegetables—a pea pod filled with peas, tomatoes, onions, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, and radishes—arranged prominently in the foreground. In the background, two farmers tend neat rows of crops under a blue sky. The style is colorful and graphic, typical of 1940s American war posters.
Pretty sure this is gonna be the companion image to @ayidashonibar.bsky.social's story in Issue 2.
