Stop resorting to AI! Here are 5 things you can do instead
Below I’ll share with you five common reasons I’ve come across that folks not much different from you or I might feel the need to turn to AI. Do remember,…
Printing Money: The Economics of Small Press
We’re obviously in a really strange time for the arts in general: you’ve got a crap economy, everything costs more money, arts funding has dried up, and nobody has a…
The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy
The Free Press has documented a closed-door Pentagon meeting in which a senior Trump official lectured Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador on American military supremacy.
How to install fonts on Linux Mint that you’ve downloaded
You can install fonts that you've downloaded, in several ways
George Garside – “The Jester” (unreleased cassette) 1985
Lying casually in a box in Garside sleeve designer Peter Jolly's attic space,was recently found George's abandoned follow up to "Oasis", provisionally entitled "The Jester".
How Old is ‘Haha’? The Sound of Medieval Laughter
Surviving in multiple copies, Ælfric’s work is not only the oldest Latin grammar written in English (or, indeed, any vernacular language), but it’s also been described as ‘one of the…
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF
To start, one of the problems with the Must Read Magazines business model is that any progress achieved by a single author doesn’t accrue to all authors. Each author must…
Preaching to the Perverted by James Bennett
Horror can be a source of release - our fears, our anger at the world’s injustices and also our hopes - to be seen, understood and accepted for who we…
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy
The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.