Epitome of Vague
Laura Jones-RiveraIt's book publishing, it's culture, it's gaming, it's half-baked thoughts and a whole lot of vague.
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Getting the big paper out
It’s the six month mark of my PhD, the point at which I have written over 11,000 words of a rough literature review and it’s time to grapple with some of the larger questions my PhD is asking of me.
I talked a little bit about what my PhD...
404 Ink: Publisher not found
I can’t believe the day is finally here that I can publicly discuss the closure of our publishing company, 404 Ink, in summer 2026. This is something my business partner Heather and I have been working towards for a while now and the weight...
Bureaucracy, youth, and seriousness in Scottish literature
On the look out for reads in the area of Scottish publishing and adjacent subjects ahead of starting my PhD in Publishing in October, I found the Irish Pages has published a volume covering the state of Scotland’s literary ecosystem since 2...
The Cathedral and the Stock Market
This week has been a big week for reasons I won’t be able to fully divulge for a while yet, but one great development was that I was offered a SGSAH scholarship to begin a PhD in Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling in October 2...
"Writing the wrongs of AI"
To be honest, I’m sick of reading and having to care about AI and what it’s doing to the publishing industry. It smells like NFTs (whatever they were), looks like tech bros and I want little to nothing to do with it. Alas, I work as a publi...
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PhD Candidate in Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling from October 2025. Publisher at 404 Ink. Operations Manager at Charco Press. Freelance typesetter.
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