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The Gatekeepers of Units and Readers
I’m opting out of my usual “this post originally appeared…” tagline to introduce the following. It did in fact appear on my previous blog on January 11 of last year, but I’m sharing it now because the discussion is still relevant, and perhaps even more so in today’s publishing environment than it was a year ago. The article was written January 8 of 2015 by Daniel Menaker, a fiction writer and editor, and is entitled “The Gatekeepers.” This morning I found myself weeding through a week’s worth of Google Alerts in my inbox, and promised myself yet again that I would keep up daily with the alerts I subscribe to. Although…
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2015: A Review
Here it is – the last week of the year. Now is the time to revive those old new year resolutions and try to cram them in during the next few days and become a better person than you were last year [and throughout this year]. Or, maybe it is the time to look back on all of the changes you made, and commend yourself for adding more happiness and satisfaction to your life. Or, maybe you’re fully ready to say f*** it to the past three-hundred sixty some-odd days and plow full speed ahead into 2016. I fall under the umbrella of each of these, and as many others like…