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(1) NOT A NEW PHENOMENON. [Item by Anne Marble.] If the article quoted in Seanan McGuire’s thread is any indication, the people marketing "romantasy" seem to think they're the first to publish fantasy novels for women. Or maybe they know better -- but they don't care because they're trying to market romantasy/romantic fantasy. Bluesky thread

(1) NOT A NEW PHENOMENON. [Item by Anne Marble.] If the article quoted in Seanan McGuire’s thread is any indication, the people marketing "romantasy" seem to think they're the first to publish fantasy novels for women. Or maybe they know better -- but they don't care because they're trying to market romantasy/romantic fantasy. Bluesky thread

(1) CURATOR TAKES SIDES, GETS CANCELLED. An Afrofuturism-themed exhibit “chapter” is the casualty when "German Museum Shutters Curator’s Contribution Over Pro-Palestine Instagram Activity, Igniting Censorship Outcry" reports ArtNews. … On Monday, writer, professor, and curator Anaïs Duplan, who goes by the pronouns he/they, posted screenshots on Instagram of an email sent to them from Museum Folkwang director

(1) CURATOR TAKES SIDES, GETS CANCELLED. An Afrofuturism-themed exhibit “chapter” is the casualty when "German Museum Shutters Curator’s Contribution Over Pro-Palestine Instagram Activity, Igniting Censorship Outcry" reports ArtNews. … On Monday, writer, professor, and curator Anaïs Duplan, who goes by the pronouns he/they, posted screenshots on Instagram of an email sent to them from Museum Folkwang director

(1) MAYBE “COYOTE” ISN’T DEAD YET. “I’m feeling better!”Deadline reports “Coyote vs. Acme: Warner Bros Showing Pic to Amazon, Apple For Acquisition”. Screenings are being set up this week for streamers Amazon Prime Video, Apple and Netflix to check out and potentially acquire Warner Bros‘ axed Looney Tunes movie Coyote vs. Acme after the studio’s phone ran off the hook the entire weekend

(1) HOPE FOR THE JAMES WHITE AWARD. Gareth Jelley, editor and publisher of Interzone, responded to the comments about the James White Award in yesterday’s post "Are These Awards Dead or Just Pining for the Fjords?" Thank you for the interesting post today on awards. Funnily enough, I'm becoming a big fan of James White's

The 2023 Dragon Awards Ballot came out yesterday and collectively the nominees kept up the trend of becoming more organic year by year -- books that are widely talked about, and some even up for other awards in the field -- an impressive accomplishment in the face of award instructions that encourage writers to campaign

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