Longer thought pieces on books and publishing.
If you’re here because you found me after reading Engadget’s article, AI might undermine one of the better alternatives to the Kindle, hello and welcome! Here’s some more context behind the quotes I provided to the article. On 29 May 2025, Kobo updated its Terms of Service to include a new section about the use […]
Readers, if you want to make a difference but feel a bit powerless as to how, I promise you it doesn’t take much. Just one tiny shift in your book buying habits can cascade into a life-changing impact.
I discovered Tamora Pierce’s books as a girl, in my library, after school. By then, I had read loads of epic and heroic fantasy…and I had internalized a pattern: boys got to be the Chosen Ones who would ride dragons and defeat evil, while girls—common-born or royalty or exotic foreigner—were merely the pretty (always, always, […]