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It takes a village

It takes a village

The wild success of Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter holds lessons for building a resilient fan community
By Andrew Liptak Mar 14, 2022
Amazon's roar

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.
By Andrew Liptak May 28, 2021
Endless Universes and Genre Soundscapes

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
By Andrew Liptak Jul 17, 2020
Endless Universes and Tales of Two Worlds

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
By Andrew Liptak Jun 9, 2020
The decade in 8 stories

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
By Andrew Liptak Dec 30, 2019

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