Writing, books, craft, publishing, movies & all my other weird obsessions...

Mostly me talking about shows and films, but you never know, I could include a book or two.

There is a lot to love in this burning world.

SFF artist & writer (AN UNLIKELY COVEN, Oct 2025)

NOTE: I have moved this newsletter to beehiiv. Archive will be removed in February. Making, doing, and making do. Fortnightly updates on my work, insights into the writing life and practices of making, and reading recommendations.

On the wonder and craft of the writing life. With swear words.

Occasional essays on literature, poetry, movies, and culture, with a particularly obsessive interest in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels, plus a little fiction of my own.

The miniature version of #1000wordsofsummer, eighth edition: January 3-7, 2025.

A working poet & parent wrangles chaos. Humor as stethoscope, microscope, telescope.

writing advice, musings, and announcements from Meredith Talusan and a wonderful team of volunteers

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight. (In 2025 it begins 5/31!)

New Yorker cartoonist Emily Sanders Hopkins writes letters to you about VERY important things.