How Tumblr/WordPressDOTcom Selling Your Data to AI Changes The Website Game
Note: This blog refers to WordPressDOTCOM which is their free website hosting platform. WordPress dot org remains free and open source and is not included in this. I’ll be blogging more about this, I’m sure, as it’s a topic I’ve been trumpeting...Authors Should Care About The 2023 Hugo Awards
A report was recently released on File770 and the Genre Grapevine that begins to hint at what happened with eligible works being left off the 2023 Hugo Awards ballot. At best it looks like the committee exercised self-censorship so as not to run afoul of China’s...
Three Things to Know Before Submitting a Story
Now that I’m looking at short fiction markets again, I’m starting to look at a lot of publishing house websites. There’s a lot of good information out there about things to check for before submitting your work such as the rights requested, the...
Who are you letting into your online “living room”?
Recently I heard an excellent analogy that our online social media profiles are like an online “living room”. You wouldn’t open the door and let just anyone into your physical living space, so why would you do it online? It made sense to me and...