Cait Corrain had an agent, a publisher and a promising career. Here’s how she shot herself in the foot. Goodreads failed to notice her review-bombing tactics (targeting other fantasies coming out around the time hers was) which has people suggesting Goodread’s time is done.
“Patriots is less an alternative history than an alternative Wikipedia entry. Evoking a sense of time and place, developing full-bodied characters, detailing complex chains of causality—things that can’t be copied and pasted from the news—are barely attempted.” — a look at one right-wing writer’s output.
Comics artist Colleen Doran tells about a publisher who tried and failed to impress her.
Much like people can engage with Marvel characters through movies instead of comics, Barbie the movie is some girls’ gateway into Barbie the doll.
The Michael Jackson estate got unreleased Jackson tapes pulled from an auction.
Setting up a fake news site is incredibly easy with AI.
Given its history, Germany is struggling with what criticism of Israel is acceptable from artists.
Are streamers yanking shows from their services to avoid paying residuals?
The right-wing freaks out over Jill Biden posting a Nutcracker Suite video. Just like Stalinists and fascists, they prefer art conform to Party doctrine.
A woman claimed Scholastic’s Drama got her addicted to porn (having read the book, I can say with certainty No Way!). By a strange coincidence she works for a rival publisher.
I’m not a sports guy but I’m all in favor of quality sports journalism. Unfortunately Sports Illustrated‘s current management apparently is not.
“I think the problem is not power, I think the problem is who you are, and whether you’re broken, and how you react to, and how you make that happen. So all of that kind of fed into the idea of an incredibly powerful being who was absolutely, in an awful lot of ways, screwed up, and could not get out of his own way.” — Neil Gaiman on writing characters as powerful as Superman.
The documentary This Changes Everything discussed how many times “after this movie’s success Hollywood will have to take women seriously!” has been a false prophecy. At Elle, Hollywood’s women creators say that’s still true.
Best Buy is about to stop selling DVDs and BluRays. The online record store Bandcamp is floundering under current management. This is bad news because physical media belong to us whereas Playstation (to use one example) is deleting content customers paid to own permanently.
Fred Clark on the awful writing of the Left Behind book series.
How romance comics taught the great Marvel artist John Romita to plot stories well.
Karen Smith, new Bucks County school board head, was sworn in on a stack of banned LGBTQ books.
Speaking of bans, just because a middle-school book has sexual topics doesn’t make it obscene — which will be news to police in parts of Massachusetts.
Speaking of sexual topics, porn performers are finding an upside to using AI in their work.
