It takes a village
The wild success of Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter holds lessons for building a resilient fan community
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Amazon's roar
Amazon announced that it's acquiring film studio MGM. The move is part of a larger trend of media consolidation, and it could have some worrisome impacts on MGM's creative legacy.
Endless Universes and Genre Soundscapes
Hello!
It’s been a fun couple of days. If you’re on Twitter and have Verified status,
you probably found that you couldn’t post the other day for a while. Twitter
experienced a major security breach
[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-access-panel-account-hacks-biden-uber-bezos]
, and it seems
Endless Universes and Tales of Two Worlds
Hello!
It’s been a weird week, hasn’t it? I spent the weekend getting away from home
for a couple of days by visiting my parents in upstate New York. (Fortunately,
Vermont has relaxed some travel restrictions, allowing us to go out to
low-impact counties and return without having
The decade in 8 stories
It’s been a long ten years.
As the end of the year approached, I toyed with putting together some sort of
“best of the decade” list, only to realize that that’s a nearly impossible task:
stories are subjective at the best of times, and such a list simply