Category: Miscellaneous
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Book Publisher’s Day
How Small Publishers Actually Make Books Happen If you imagine publishing as a velvet-roped world of martinis and mysterious phone calls, small publishers would like a word. They usually wear socks that don’t match, drink coffee that’s gone cold, and argue lovingly over commas—because someone really cares about your book. On Book Publisher’s Day, celebrated…
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Happy Poetry Break Day
(Yes, that’s official. I just checked with the Muse. She nodded.) Some days are for productivity.Some days are for inboxes.And some days—quietly, rebelliously—are for poetry. Poetry Break Day on January 13 is the pause button you’re allowed to press without explaining yourself. It’s the moment you stop trying to be useful and let language be…
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International Word Nerd Day
In Defense of Exactly the Right Word There’s a holiday for everything now, which is fitting—because naming things is one of humanity’s oldest tricks. Today, January 9, happens to be International Word Nerd Day, and if that makes you smile a little too knowingly, welcome. You’re among friends who get unreasonably excited about etymology, who…
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National Old Rock Day
In Defense of the Patient Ones Today, January 7, is National Old Rock Day, which sounds like a celebration invented by geology professors and sentient mountains—but it turns out to be surprisingly relevant to how the world works, how stories work, and how some planets refuse to be rushed. Old rocks are not just “rocks…
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Take a Poet to Lunch: A Brief (and Slightly Hungry) History of Poetry
Today, January 6, is National Take a Poet to Lunch Day. Long before poetry was something you encountered on a greeting card or scrolled past on your phone, it was how humans remembered who they were. Poetry began as breath and rhythm—spoken aloud around fires, carried across generations before writing even existed. The earliest poets…
A Heep of Words: Books by Alexandra Heep, Helena Parx, Lexa Drane 