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I will not look at social media today. I will NOT look at social media today. I WILL NOT look at social media today. I WILL NOT look at social “media” today. I WILL NOT look at “social” media today. I “WILL NOT” “LOOK” AT “SOCIAL MEDIA” TODAY.

• OPEN LETTER ALERT! Oh, wait, it’s a good… 200 writers support trans lives;
• Weston Prize finalists;
• What’s the diff between Thriller and Horror;
• Ms. Potter changed her name to Ellen after spending most of her life sharing her assigned name with the main character of a noted TERF’s book series… Congratulations, Ellen!;
• Reminder: CBC Short Story Prize is open for submissions;
• Industry organ PW signs deal to care for its digital archive;
• Michael Rosen dishes on his time with Covid;
• Check your bookshelves: books from before authors were discovered to be horrific bigots might now be worth something;
• The Coronavirus erotica that no one asked for or wanted;
• On being Brown in a White romance world;
• Goodbye Books Unlimited in Saskatoon;
• Asian SciFi is hot right now, esp if you have the greatest SF author name of all time: Neon Yang;
• Cover design from Sept 2020;
• The Jack Reacher franchise is worth over $1B despite being attached to a cuckoo Scientologist;