Hrrlorrrrrr. (This is actually how I say hello.) A few things:
1. My friend (I say this advisedly, because I have it on authority he’s shortly planning to humiliate me in some way) Chris Flynn is the publisher of Torpedo, an independent fiction quarterly. Due to the prohibitive costs of publishing a print journal, he’s taken the plunge and decided to make Torpedo an electronic journal going forward. It is now the first Australian magazine/journal to be available on the Kindle, and only the second in the world to be so.
If you have a Kindle, an iPhone or a even just a plain ol’ computer, you can download any or every issue of Torpedo straight away. Pretty exciting shizzle. I’m looking forward to having a play.
2. I wrote an article about the Australian Publishers Association internship program for Bookseller + Publisher magazine‘s March issue, the second issue produced under Angela Meyer’s editorship. Go forth and inspect it dubiously.
3. On my way home today, I listened to the Joan Juliet Buck episode of The Moth, in which she describes living in a haunted apartment on Paris’s Rue Jacob. I am pretty sure I can hear the strains of Michael Bolton coming from somewhere, and now I am scared that my house is haunted by Michael Bolton. Or that someone in my family has poor music taste. Whichever.
