✅ In PKP's "Archipelago" - "The Publication Facts Label: Put your journal's integrity in black and white"

"The #PFLabel will inspire #editors and #authors to comply with #PublishingStandards... (and) for editors, keep an eye on days-to-publication and pursue #indexing opportunities...

The first 500+ journals have it in place and the number grows every day. The more widely it is used... the better it serves as a trust marker..."

https://pkp.sfu.ca/2026/03/31/publication-facts-label/

#ScholComm #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

"It becomes a race. Get it done already. In my notes for one course I did, taught by an Australian novelist, I have: 'HOW LONG DOES THE READER HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL SOMETHING HAPPENS??'"

Jane O'Sullivan for The Sydney Review of Books: https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/how-to-begin

#Longreads #Writing #Fiction #Novels #Literature #Sentence #Authors #Writers

We asked Ibram X. Kendi: Sound or silence?

"I love the loudness of silence, as an introvert."

The CHAIN OF IDEAS author answers this week's Longreads Questionnaire: https://longreads.com/2026/04/15/questionnaire-ibram-x-kendi/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Writing #Reading #Authors #Writers #Race Racism #Antiracism #Interview

One of my favourite things about mastodon is when authors talk about their books and I pre-order them and then forget and a surprise appears at some point. I've had awesome #solarpunk anthologies, a book about airline maps, a wonderful book about communication methods, a book about fediverse and more.

I don't think I have anything pre-ordered right now - let me know if you've got something brewing which I can queue up...

#book #authors #publishing

"Ideas and turns of phrase shake loose on a long run. It’s thrilling."

In this week's Longreads Questionnaire, New Yorker staff writer and LONDON FALLING author Patrick Radden Keefe shares what he's reading, where he does his best thinking, and more.

https://longreads.com/2026/04/08/questionnaire-patrick-radden-keefe/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Authors #Writers #Books #Nonfiction #Reading

In this week's Longreads Questionnaire, best-selling author R. O. Kwon shares what she's reading these days, the word she overused in her first novel, and more.

https://longreads.com/2026/04/01/questionnaire-r-o-kwon/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Writers #Authors #Books #Writing #Reading

In "Good Writing," Neal Allen shares 36 tips to improve your sentences—and Anne Lamott weighs in on each one.

They bring that same dynamic to this week’s Longreads Questionnaire: https://longreads.com/2026/03/18/questionnaire-neal-allen-anne-lamott/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Writing #Writers #Authors #Interview #Reading #Books

I got in a row the other day with a woman, who shared a post with her opinion about the toxicity of persons critical of Mary Sue characters.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/15/encounter-with-mary-sue/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
After much pushback, she turned off the ability to comment, so she forced my hand to respond otherwise. I resorted to my blog – and here.

#philosophy #writing #blog #critique #scriptwriting #authors #movies #novels #storytelling #bollox #language #perception #marysue

In this week's Longreads Questionnaire, Julian Brave NoiseCat shares the writers who inspire him, what's shaped him most, and where he does his best thinking.

https://longreads.com/2026/03/11/questionnaire-julian-brave-noisecat/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Writing #Creativity #Reading #Storytelling #Writers #Authors #Indigenous #Native

For our latest questionnaire, Rebecca Solnit, author of The Beginning Comes After the End, talks about jackrabbits, her own “informational hypervigilance,” and the one word she won’t stop using
https://longreads.com/2026/03/04/questionnaire-rebecca-solnit/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #interview #RebeccaSolnit #longreads #authors #writing

Dennis Lehane, whose best known books like Gone Baby Gone and Mystic River are set in #Boston, expertly described local tone and humor:

"I was in Miami for graduate school, and I remember worrying that I was losing the Boston voice. Right? So I went back home and I ran into a guy and I said, 'How you doing?' He’d been kind of a brawler.

"And he said, 'Uh, I’m good. You know, I got stabbed a couple months ago,' and I was like, 'What happened?' He tells me the story. He says, 'I was in Faneuil Hall and, and I got into beef with this guy. And anyway, he stabbed me.' And he said, 'I dunno what you’ve heard, but it really takes the fight out of a guy.'

"And I thought that’s it. That’s the voice. That right there, it’s, 'I don’t know what you’ve heard.' Like you may have heard that, you know, getting stabbed is kind of like a hot stone massage, you know? And then the incredible understatement — not 'I was praying for my God,' not 'it hurt so much.' No. 'It kind of takes the fight out of a guy.'

"That’s the Boston I know."

#dennislehane #writing #authors #massachusetts

About to dive into a collection of short stories by O. Henry (1862-1910). His birth name was William Sydney Porter. According to his Wikipedia bio, he was buried in North Carolina, and

"According to the cemetery, as of 2023, people have been leaving $1.87 in change (the amount of Della's savings at the beginning of "The Gift of the Magi") on Porter's grave for at least 30 years. The cemetery says the money is given to area libraries."

I thought you ought to know that.

#authors #stories #biography #cemeteries

[for your address book]

A Fediverse group for sharing your papers and preprints.

https://soc.octade.net/papers/

#Papers #Writing #Preprints #Authors #Research #Reading #groups #fedigroups #fediverse

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cartoon drawing of a feather quill standing in a inkwell

"Nothing can equal the ingratitude of the Public; who were never yet known to have the slightest compassion for those authors who have deprived themselves of sleep, in order to procure it for their readers."
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author Rev. C.C. Colton, 1837

#authors #insomnia #writing #quote #selfawareness