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Blinks: Read and Recommended : The New York Publishing State of Mind
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Blinks: Read and Recommended. Wednesday, February 24, 2016. The New York Publishing State of Mind. Titled "The Open Refrigerator" which gives an overview of the state of mind in New York publishing among editors and publishers like Howard. I recommend it, if that at all interests you. You can find the essay here. Here's a short article. From four years ago that discusses some aspects of this unfortunately common phenomenon. Douglas A. Anderson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow this blog by email.
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Blinks: Read and Recommended : January 2016
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Blinks: Read and Recommended. Monday, January 25, 2016. Journals and publishers setting sights on the unwary. This graph shows an explosion in the number of so-called predatory publishers and journals in the past five years. Douglas A. Anderson. Friday, January 8, 2016. Though Pullman writes of England, what he says is true all over. Philip Pullman: professional writers set to become 'an endangered species'. Read it all here. Douglas A. Anderson. The State of Authorship. Saturday, January 2, 2016. They w...
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Blinks: Read and Recommended : It's time to stand up to greedy academic publishers
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Blinks: Read and Recommended. Tuesday, April 19, 2016. It's time to stand up to greedy academic publishers. How should research travel from the notebooks, hard drives and laboratories of researchers to the desks of their peers? Who should get access? And who should pay? Full article at The Guardian. Douglas A. Anderson. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow this blog by email. Enter your email address:. Douglas A. Anderson. Is the author of The Annotated Hobbit. 2003) and Tales Before Narnia. What B...
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Blinks: Read and Recommended : What Big Publishing Consolidation Means for Authors
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Blinks: Read and Recommended. Saturday, April 2, 2016. What Big Publishing Consolidation Means for Authors. All true. Full article here. Douglas A. Anderson. Labels: The State of Authorship. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow this blog by email. Enter your email address:. Douglas A. Anderson. Is the author of The Annotated Hobbit. 1988; revised and expanded edition 2002). He is currently Book Reviews Editor of the peer-reviewed online Journal of Tolkien Research. 2003) and Tales Before Narnia.
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Blinks: Read and Recommended : December 2016
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Blinks: Read and Recommended. Wednesday, December 28, 2016. I find it a bit ironic that this 792 word article by Thomas Vinciguerra about the need to be paid for one's writing should be online, for free, at the website of the Columbia Journalism Review. Read it all here:. Want me to write for free? I’ve got two one-syllable words for you. Douglas A. Anderson. Want Me to Write for Free. Sunday, December 18, 2016. English Majors’ Twilight: The reality and mythology of an English major". 2008) More Tales Be...
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Blinks: Read and Recommended : February 2016
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Blinks: Read and Recommended. Wednesday, February 24, 2016. The New York Publishing State of Mind. Titled "The Open Refrigerator" which gives an overview of the state of mind in New York publishing among editors and publishers like Howard. I recommend it, if that at all interests you. You can find the essay here. Here's a short article. From four years ago that discusses some aspects of this unfortunately common phenomenon. Douglas A. Anderson. Monday, February 22, 2016. Read in full here. Which highligh...
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Wormwoodiana: March 2015
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This blog is devoted to fantasy, supernatural and decadent literature. It was begun by Douglas A. Anderson and Mark Valentine, and joined by friends including James Doig and Jim Rockhill, to present relevant news and information. Saturday, March 14, 2015. Leslie Barringer's Lost Book. A "Late Review" from Wormwood. No 23 (Autumn 2014), newly illustrated:. Cartmell, Esmé. Rescue in Ravensdale. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [February 1946]). Illustrated by Drake Brookshaw. 1928) and Shy Leopardess. 1993)...
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Wormwoodiana: The Last of Aickman?
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This blog is devoted to fantasy, supernatural and decadent literature. It was begun by Douglas A. Anderson and Mark Valentine, and joined by friends including James Doig and Jim Rockhill, to present relevant news and information. Saturday, August 8, 2015. The Last of Aickman? Possibly the last writing Robert Aickman did for publication was a foreword to a book of canal poems, Echoes of a Canal Travelling Man. I came across this when I picked up a book of poems called Excalibur Immersed. The Lost City of Z.
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Wormwoodiana: November 2014
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This blog is devoted to fantasy, supernatural and decadent literature. It was begun by Douglas A. Anderson and Mark Valentine, and joined by friends including James Doig and Jim Rockhill, to present relevant news and information. Friday, November 28, 2014. Was the Novelist Phyllis Paul also an Illustrator? An article I wrote for the recent issue of Wormwood. First, is the monogram used to sign some of the artwork, incorporating the artist's name:. 1928) by Mary Gervaise:. By Sibyl B. Owsley:. Is now avai...
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Tolkien and Fantasy: April 2012
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Musings on Tolkien and modern fantasy literature. Sunday, April 22, 2012. Academic publishing is at root a kind of scam. The publishers get away with not paying academics (or paying them very little) because academics mostly need the publishing credits and the exposure which is vital to their academic survival, and they are (supposedly) earning a living by teaching. This was the traditional model for the bulk of the twentieth century. With regard to an academic journal, like Tolkien Studies. 8220;Academi...
