Author: Jonathan Kieran
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Agent-turns-Editor at Solaris
This seems to be an accelerating trend in publishing, particularly in Sci-Fi/Fantasy and YA genres. Read about it HERE. _________________________________ #Publishing #Solaris #LiteraryAgents #PublishingImprints #Editors #AuthorJonathanKieran #JonathanKieran #WriterJonathanKieran #CaliforniaLife #OnTheEdge #Wistwood #JonathanKieranTheAuthor #JonathanKieranMusic #JonathanKieranNewAlbum #JonathanKieranArtist #Jericho #JonathanKieranJericho #JerichoAlbum #WritersOfInstagram #ArtistsOfInstagram
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That’s a Helluva Lot of Cat Chow
One simply has to SEE IT AND READ ABOUT IT to experience the toothsome and curious melange of schadenfreude/enthrallment … laced with with a soupçon of existential seemliness. Was this a case wherein an epitome of gluttonous human arrogance and…
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The Plight of Print ‘Zines
This latest news of major magazine layoffs is not entirely a surprise—print ‘zines have been swirling around the bowl for some time, what with the synapse-frazzling rise of online Information Overload. But this is just one more depression of the…
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“… expanding our empathy.”
The rank and often willful stupidity that has infiltrated American culture—and the literary arm of that culture—has rarely been encapsulated as well as it is in this New York Times article. Whether one looks at a reviewer from the Washington…
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Time(lessness) is Money
I am not steeped in all aspects of today’s ever-festering and largely rancid popular culture, but I have kept—and continue to keep—a finger fixed firmly upon its arrhythmic pulse for purposes of ongoing socio-cultural defenestration and periodic disembowelment. Much ado…
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That’s a Whole Lotta Calamari
Forget feeding an entire town. This big bad boy would be just enough to keep me in tentacles and rings—tempura-battered, ancho chili dipping-sauce on the side—for maybe a year. I’d buy an extra freezer unit to store the deliciousness. Two…
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All We Hear is Yadda Yadda Blah Blah
With everyone and his/her brother/mother/son/father/sister/pet styling themselves as “authors” these days, with nary a shred of experience (much less innate talent) and no desire to pay some serious dues in the trenches, I have little faith in this advice from…
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It’s Judd a Little Post-it Note, After All
Not that I have ever possessed more than a shred of passing, idle interest in the lives or careers of any of the Judd women, and publishing anyone’s suicide note (unless it is crucial to public interest) is undeniably tacky,…
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Antiquated Dinosaur Drama!
Direct from the BBC. Who knew? ————————————————— #Dinosaurs #ScientificFeuds #AuthorJonathanKieran #JonathanKieran #WriterJonathanKieran #CaliforniaLife #OnTheEdge #Wistwood #JonathanKieranTheAuthor #JonathanKieranMusic #JonathanKieranNewAlbum #JonathanKieranArtist #Jericho #JonathanKieranJericho #JerichoAlbum #WritersOfInstagram #ArtistsOfInstagram
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Mostly Pillow-Fights?
Leave it to the good folks at the Smithsonian to tell us that, when fighting against each other, dinosaurs used their TEETH, and TAILS, and HORNS, and CLAWS. Alas, no fiery breath, apparently. ————————————— #Dinosaurs #DinosaurWeapons #DinosaurFights #AuthorJonathanKieran #JonathanKieran #WriterJonathanKieran…
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