Introducing: Good Reads
Greetings. This is a quick note. I deleted my Goodreads account and from now on I write about books and what I’m reading in two places, both of which will be called Good Reads. This newsletter is place 1, and it was formerly known as unagented trash. Place 2 will be in the pages of King Ludd’s Rag, the print zine dedicated to long-form fiction that is published by Malarkey and formerly edited by me. I have had a lot of trouble keeping on a good schedule with the zine, but I think basically we will be a quarterly thing from now on. There is a new editor: Zachary Kocanda. Zach selects the stories (and sends polite decline notes) and works with the writers on edits. I remain as the typesetter and guy who is responsible for getting the zines printed and mailed out. And starting in issue 24 I’ll have a little section in each issue called Good Reads. The two versions of Good Reads will be connected, yet separate. I won’t be copy-pasting from here into there, is what I mean.
This is Alan by the way. You might have known me from twitter, or around the litmag world. Anyway you subscribe to unagented trash but now you subscribe to Good Reads instead. Unless you don’t want to; I’m sure there’s an unsubscribe button handy, not that I want you to click it.
Life is scary right now and I don’t know if it’s going to get better, but we have to always believe that it can and we have to live our lives as if it will.