What do you think he’s doing, right now? Actually, don’t think about it too hard. Chills my spine. It’s the mental equivalent of reaching blindly into a hole in a wall of an old house. Rusty nails, dead rats, spider colonies, slimy mold, Amontillado, etc. Who knows what you’ll find. See you on the other side, people.

- Get this kid a desk job! Alberta teen pens grant app for diversity;
- Want to diversify the writing world? Start teaching the craft differently;
- Hundreds of publishing professionals call on the rest to not give Trump a memoir platform, post election;
- For those crying “censorship” at this: 1) you’re stupid, and 2) shit will float;
- InstaPoet says dad was offed by Russian mob (should help with clicks);
- Moss from my beloved “IT Crowd” is doing a kids book;
- Toronto comics mainstay The Beguiling profiled;
- Use cutting edge technology to increase writing time… Ladies and Gentlemen: The Typewriter?;
- RIP: Storm Constantine, popular spec author, dead at 64;
- What did the US 2020 sales and deals look like, in numbers?;
- Some data on the most commonly assigned books at US colleges;
- Gibert Jeune closes in Paris and alarm bells sound;
- MFAs for those on a budget (St. Mary’s is the only program I know here);