Ottawa writer Deborah-Anne Tunney has a short story collection coming this fall. Enter at GoodReads to win a copy of The View from the Lane. Also this fall: a call for Making Contact: Circulating Small and Micro Press Poetry in Canada organized by Cameron Anstee. There’s also calls for postmodernism, Women Writing North by Alana […]
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Cost per Hour of Reading
New Thinking on Digital Book Pricing – BookNet 101 – Nathan Maharaj. Fascinating stuff. 2/3 of Kobo books 3 months after purchase were never opened. Charts of anonymized top selling books compared for open-rate, completion rate, and number of reads it takes to either finish or give up. And he shows cost per hour of […]
News roundup
Yesterday’s Sneha & I were onClick Here with Mitchell Caplan. You can listen at that link. Did you see Michael Jacobson’s asemic piece at NationalPoetryMonth.ca? Here’s a whole gallery of asemic writing The New Post-literate “I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won’t have to fool around with it any […]
Word Tools
You already know about Reverse Dictionary which is a kind of an online thesaurus and RhymeZone but did you notice Rhyme Zone now has not just perfect rhymes, near rhymes, similar sounding words but in the same drop down “find word in poetry excerpts“. I’m pretty sure that’s new. Also new is an oulipo of […]
On the radar
For those who don’t follow me at twitter or who get swamped in the deluge that is twitter, here’s some poetry things I found interesting lately, A comic guy made a guide for setting up a book table! Great for any small press fair. Buy a Versefest festival pass by March 23 and be in […]