It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but a lot has been in the pipeline and chugging along since then.

One thing that’s really great is the publication of my article, The Rise of the Citizen Author: Writing Within Social Media, in Publishing Research Quarterly, happened. I feel like publishing is a tiny area of study for something that is so vast and is part of almost everyone’s lives, and somehow that should change. There are new programmes popping up across the UK and USA, so hopefully that’s a turn for the better. And, let’s not ignore the cross-disciplinary potential!

Anyway, I’m busy prepping the launch of Echoes of the City, which should go live this month. More to come on that shortly, but I’ll leave you with the abstract of my article:

The concept of the citizen author is defined and explored within the publishing industry. In order to understand what positions the citizen author currently, and potentially could, hold it begins with a historical view of their rise, including concepts of their eighteenth century antecedents. But the focus of this research is on their growth alongside that of social media platforms. This allows for drawing out relationships between genre fiction, publishers, and the citizen author, which provides a more full understanding of the power dynamics involved when publishers, social media, and the citizen authors mix in the current industry climate.