by Cooper West | Sep 8, 2012 | Editorial
Body image – it’s a hot topic, all the time. I’m not sure we can ever escape it. Honestly I think objectification is a natural impulse that we will definitely never escape. That in and of itself isn’t a bad thing; what can go bad is how we as a...
by Cooper West | Jul 31, 2012 | Editorial, Writing Industry
I really don’t want this space to become yet another blog about writing; there are plenty of excellent ones already out there, and I don’t feel qualified to teach/lead people in their writing careers, and I’ve got plenty else going on in my life to...
by Cooper West | Jul 27, 2012 | Editorial
In my role as a professional archivist I come across interesting things sometimes. Recently I was processing (identifying, sorting, and describing) a bunch of letters written in the late 1990s by people who were describing their personal experiences of WWII. Most of...
by Cooper West | May 21, 2012 | Editorial, Writing Industry
In all the talk going on about agency pricing and legacy publishers and indies and self-publishing phenoms, one aspect that generally gets ignored is the psychological affect that the legacy system had on newbie writers. Now, this isn’t a rant about how unfairly...
by Cooper West | May 18, 2012 | Editorial
Hugo award winning author John Scalzi recently wrote a post titled Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is, which pretty much blew up the Webz (at least in my corner of the world). Because of all the backlash he got over the post, he also posted a...
by Cooper West | May 15, 2012 | Editorial
If you aren’t a writer, you probably missed the guest post by Tom Schreck at Joe Konrath’s blog, A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing. I think if you aren’t a writer, on the whole it might not interest you, but there is one section where Tom talks...
