Grateful Holidays, Lit Mag considerations, doors opening…

This year, I am celebrating my holidays in Seattle, far away from my family, but happily, close to many of my friends, and I’m excited about squeezing in dinner and coffee dates, as many as possible, around Christmas. I am feeling unbelievably grateful for my wonderful, eccentric group of friends.

I don’t want to say too much about anything specific yet, but I have the feeling lately that after a few years of banging hard on doors and not getting anything but bruised knuckles, that when I knock on doors these days they’re sort of…opening on their own. Maybe it’s just foolish end-of-year optimism…or maybe my luck (writing-wise anyway) is changing…

My new e-reader has been a bunch of fun to play around with, but I’m hoping that more lit mags will get on the e-reader bandwagon – wouldn’t it be great to be able to travel with new issues of your favorite lit mags on your Kindle or Nook? The lit mag really would lend itself to this kind of reading, with a bit of poetry or fiction or essay on the go. I can’t see reading a great many novels on the e-reader – still prefer paper books for that – but research and reading bits and pieces of things works fantastically on the Kindle Fire. Are many literary magazine editors considering creating maybe slightly cheaper versions of their magazines for e-readers? Let me know in the comments!

Thanks to Jessica Goodfellow for nominating this little blog for a Liebster award, which I am also grateful for! All the blogs she nominated I follow and and admire, actually!