• Action Comics by PKJ is genuinely the best Superman ongoing in decades
• The Flash is one of the most fun and underrated books on the stands
• everything by Tom King
• Blue and Gold is so much fun and so much better than the nostalgia bait that it could have been
• NIGHTWING FINALLY HAS A GOOD BOOK with some of the coolest art in comics right now
• Ram V’s Swamp Thing is such a fresh take on a character that I think has had mostly mediocre runs for the past few years

Hi, I am looking at self-publishing my children's picture books, probably e-books initially to try and make some money. If by some miracle one takes off, would I then be able to approach a publisher, or do they avoid already self-published books?

Thanks!

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A bunch of info from Jez Corden about Microsoft ramping up their 3rd party publishing plans, to cover pretty much every genre out there. Apparently they are funding and publishing:

-A bunch of indie titles from smaller developers

-Side scroller beat-em-up, I'm assuming similar to streets of rage 4

-A MOBA based on an existing Xbox IP

-A cloud powered MMO

-Strategy game (Project Indus), which is apparently poaching devs from Civilization

And more plus the games from Avalanche, IO Interactive, potentially Kojima etc. His main takeaway is that Microsoft is basically now funding and publishing a huge variety of titles big and small from common to niche genres, so everyone has something to be interested in, especially when it's all coming to gamepass

On the 1st party front:

-Mojang is developing more new Minecraft games

-inXile has massively expanded since the Microsoft acquisition and the scope of Project Cobalt (steampunk game) has grown hugely, so expect it to obviously be much bigger than Wasteland 3

-He now knows what Compulsion Games is working on

-He has heard MS has been talking to some smaller studios, and has reason to believe they might be acquired in the next few months, but nothing Bethesda sized (because realistically, nobody would know about something that big until it gets announced)

I'm an amatuar photographer, back in October 2020 i sent one of my pictures into Digital Camera Magazine or just Digital Camera, the Technique Editor got back and told me that they were moving the image from the readers gallery to the shooting challenge, i replied back but i never received another reply from the technique editor, then boris put us into lockdown which meant i wasn't able to physically buy the November 2020 issue.

So i'm asking if anyone round here has an October and/or November 2020 issue of digital camera and to post some pictures of the shooting challenge pages so i can see if my photo was actually featured, maybe also a December 2020 issue for good measure.

I'm not sure if we're allowed to post about publishers here, but has anyone heard about Future House Publishing. I've been trying to dig up some information about them but I can't find much.

Quarantine = Ignatius in the cave (Gesuit Digital Liberation Theology Guarani Reduction Monasteries)

>“I've often thought about the capacity that humans have had for tens of thousands of years to attend to their dying loved ones, and one criterion that makes sense to me for what is appropriate care at the end of life is this: What can you do in a cave? In a cave you can hold people, you can rock them, you can sing to them, you can bathe them, you can provide care to prevent drying of the mouth and lips, and you can give pain medications that do not have to be swallowed [vaccines]*.*** These are wonderful things. It would be a tremendous loss to the human community were we not to allow death to be viewed by our families as a wholesome experience and as an integral part of our lives, because it is all of our futures.”

—Gesuit Priest, Jon D. Fuller, S.J. [Physician Staff Member – “Center for AIDS Care and Research”: Boston Medical Center; Associate Professor of Medicine – Gesuit “Boston University School of Medicine”]; Gesuit “Boston College Magazine”; “Whoes Life?,” (Boston: Spring, 2005), [Emphasis Mine]

• https://bcm.bc.edu/issues/spring_2005/ft_endoflife.html#fuller
• https://www.lucistrust.org/world_goodwill/newsletter/recent_issues__1/2006_4_what_is_death/death_in_the_modern_world

Remember, this is “The Ignatian Year: commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Catholic conversion of Ignatius Loyola”—into a militant (a citizen soldier) for Rome. It is the “Reflection” (2021), after the “Experience,” (2020), before the “Action” (2022), according to the Gesuit Delta (IHS/Tenebrae) Ratio Studiorum “Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm” (the basis of Gesuit created Masonry). “DELTA” is the Greek letter for the Roman Numeral “D.” D in Roman Arithmetic = 500. It has been 500/DELTA years since the conversion of Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1521) to the present year (2021).

This is all Gesuit Theater on their world stage and they want you to play your part they assigned you, characterized you, dressed you, and masked you (hair and makeup):

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So I sent about 10 query letters earlier this summer and I only got three replies so far. I decided to go check on my query and I noticed that most of the agents I queried to left their agencies and went on to something else like "freelance editor" and such. I've noticed many agents are going down that path.

Do you think this pandemic has overwhelmed most agents to the point where they consider quitting? also, do you think more writers will take the self-publishing route?

I'm currently in my 3rd year of undergrad and I've secured a decent 1 year internship as a SE at Red Hat. I'm also currently doing research with my professor in a field related to real time computer graphics which involves a lot of optimization, simulation algorithms, using the GPU for parallelism, etc. My professor has asked whether I'm interested in continuing with him to go on to publish a paper on our findings. I personally find it interesting but I'm not sure if I have the time, I'd have to dump in at least 100 hours in the next 6ish months which doesn't seem like much but I'm already swamped with a full time computer engineering course load and I already get ~6 hrs of sleep on avg. However, I'd have more of a reason to pursue it if I knew it could help me in the future and not just in terms of future research/grad school. Do you guys think having a publication with me as a main contributor + my internship at Red Hat would help me stand out on job applications? Would it significantly help i.e. is it worth the time? I'm studying computer engineering and I'm interested in both pure software and working closer to the hardware (i.e. operating systems, drivers, AMD, intel, etc).

Edit: I'd also like to say that being able to publish a paper isn't guaranteed, we could spend 100s of hours and come up empty handed. We've made some decent headway into what we're researching but nothing is guaranteed.