Further to my last post and the lack of data to determine what’s going on there, I wondered how Seven by Twenty fares in terms of gender parity. I don’t believe I’m particularly biased (although of course I’m a product of my culture and some biases are inherent there) and I don’t think I pay [...]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
The Count 2010 counts female and male authorship in various influential publications (via Jenniey Tallman‘s Facebook feed). These numbers are pretty depressing – just as a sample, London Review of Books reviewed 68 female authors to 195 male authors in 2010; Tin House published 73 women to 226 men; only Poetry crept over the 50% [...]
Instead of posting here and doing other things I’d also like to be doing (like writing, or playing fetch with the dog) I’ve been doing three things: working (we’re down a staffer at work so I’m putting in a lot of overtime to make up for it), playing Words With Friends (if you’d like to [...]
Saturday, January 8, 2011
I’ve been working for Demand Studios since May 2010. I wrote 149 articles in 2010, earning a total of $1012.50. I mostly wrote two kinds of articles – $3 “Tip” articles which were one- or two-sentence answers for questions on sites like Answerbag.com, and $15 “About” and “List” articles which were longer (500 [...]
(Also, in writing news, my short story “Seeing Red” was accepted into the P&W Speakeasy anthology which we members are putting together as a fun project so we can all read each other’s work. I’m a co-editor but I edited the poetry.) 2010 The Year in Review 1. What did you do in 2010 that [...]
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Watch short film “Idiot with a Tripod” on Roger Ebert’s site (via).
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
I downloaded 68 books last night, including the complete works of Jane Austen, a lot of P. G. Wodehouse, and five or six each of G. K. Chesterton and H. G. Wells. Also a few cookbooks and a lot of random stuff. Somebody on the Amazon forums recommended jungle-search, which allows you to specify the [...]
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
My three-pronged defense against zombie invasion: 1. I lock my doors. 2. Alister will bark at the slightest provocation, so he would surely raise the roof at a zombie incursion. 3. Zombies don’t exist. Stupid hind brain.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Rachel from the P&W Speakeasy linked to this article about which literary journals are read by agents: A Public Space, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, Electric Literature, Fence, Gigantic, Glimmer Train, Granta, Hobart Pulp, Mississippi Review, n+1, New Yorker, No Colony, One Story, Oxford American, PANK, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Subtropics, Tin House, Words [...]
