On a faded red brick wall, a poem in white titled "Sweet Dreams, Sour Nightmares." Can't read all of it. "When @ got back, you were gone maybe dead. I I fell in love with your granddaughters instead."Image by Marion DeedsThe Story Hour has migrated from Facebook, which is owned by Meta, to YouTube. The live-story-reading site is hosted by writers Laura Blackwell and Daniel Marcus. You can read their statement about what led to this decision here.

Here is a review category I don’t see every day: Bulgarian fiction. I want to read the first one!

More in the saga of scraping and data-mining; Society of Authors published an article about the findings of their survey about proposed changes in copyright that privilege tech companies over the authors and creators. (Thanks to File 770.)

Studio Ghibli works garnered $1.49 million at an auction held by Heritage Auctions in Texas. This was the first time the auction house focused on anime.

Book Riot reports that BookLooks, a review site associated with Mom for Liberty, has shut down. Interesting information. Book Riot is a personal site and the author of this post has no trouble expressing their opinions of the subject site or the parent organization.

Nice review of Idolfire by Grace Curtis here at Nerds of a Feather.

Recent cuts of at least $1billion from the USDA will affect food banks across the nation.

I can count on Reactor’s “Five Books that…” lists for something, and I really like this one—books about language and translation. That silly photo up top is homage to this article–I take no blame or credit for the quality of the poem.

Elias Ells of Bar Cart Bookshelf reviews A Drop of Corruption, the upcoming mystery fantasy from Robert Jackson Bennett, and demonstrates a bright and bitter cocktail inspired by the book.

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  • Marion Deeds

    Marion Deeds, with us since March, 2011, is the author of the fantasy novella ALUMINUM LEAVES. Her short fiction has appeared in the anthologies BEYOND THE STARS, THE WAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, STRANGE CALIFORNIA, and in Podcastle, The Noyo River Review, Daily Science Fiction and Flash Fiction Online. She’s retired from 35 years in county government, and spends some of her free time volunteering at a second-hand bookstore in her home town.

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