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Amazon’s New Review Rules: Should Authors Be Worried? – Author Anne R. Allen has written a post explaining why she thinks Amazon has been cracking down more on reviews, even going so far as to wipe out a reviewer’s whole review history on the site. One of the most important (and ... more >
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Black History Month anthology seeks to broaden scope of African literature – October is Black History Month in the UK (in Canada and the US it’s February), and in commemoration, Bahati Books is releasing a story a day, culminating in a free digital anthology — Black History: The Anthology — at the end ... more >
Publishing NewsComics / digital publishing / Frankfurt Book Fair / gender / Indonesia / Muslim publisher / photography / publishing / Race / sexual identity / South AfricaComments Off on Monday News: self-portraits, comic conglomerates, Indonesian publishing, and Frankfurt Book Fair
Zanele Muholi’s Transformations – A very interesting prose portrait of a photographer who has become known for her work depicting subjects from black and queer South African communities, and who has undertaken a series of self-portraits, aimed at “tell[ing] the truth” about herself. Her portraits are stunning, provocative, and they clearly communicate the ... more >