First, just a reminder that Lydia Millet will be reading tonight at McNally Robinson in Manhattan in support of her new novel How the Dead Dream, which is very much worth reading. I'm planning on being there, though will probably arrive a few minutes late.
Second, there are suddenly a bunch of free books available for download via their publishers and authors:
- As many people have noted, Tor Books is giving away a free ebook each week to people who register with them. The current book is Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, which I happen to know is a book Lydia Millet is a fan of...
- Nightshade Books has a few downloads available, including Richard Kadrey's Butcher Bird, which looks like it could be marvelous.
- Wired.com's Geekdad blog has an interview with Jeff & Ann VanderMeer from which you can download Jeff's novella The Situation (coming soon from PS Publishing).
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The courier fetish is just a hangover from the days when publishers would accept nothing else. It's still the screenwriters' fave, because being equal-spaced it means a page=a minute with reasonable consistency.
But reading courier is like walking barefoot over cobblestones I think.
I note-take in Arial and write drafts in Times New Roman. Habit is a weird thing.
(Joke: Courier walks into a bar. Barman says, "Sorry, we don't serve your type in here.")
Times New Roman rules!
Nick: That's a truly funny joke. Thanks for sharing :)
Yes, it does, Charlote!
I like Courier, because it has a little "funk" factor. But I love to use American Typewriter as much as possible for that purpose. I do admit it might be a little tough to read a full length novel that way, though.
But I write picture books, so display fonts are right up my alley. When choosing the typeface for pb spreads it is key to find a font that echos the style of the art. So, for me, funk is key.
Here is something that designers with type can have a field day at:
http://www.myfonts.com/
My favorites there are McCracken and Minya Nouvelle for the text in picture books. I used them when I designed my own PB.
I'm an Arial fan and have been for as long as I've been using a wordprocessor instead of a typewriter...
I write in Verdana and Trebuchet. Sometimes I change it over to Times New Roman for submission, sometimes not. I've noticed that many of my editors also use Verdana (or Arial). It doesn't seem like Courier or Times are the mandatory type anymore.
I love me a good Helvetica, especially a nice bold Helvetica with some 70's roundness to it.
But when it comes to mss. it's all about the Courier. Mostly because it's the closest to my old manual typewriter of days gone by.
I don't get the Arial (sp?) font myself.
Times New Roman all the way. Yet another thing we have in common.
I'm a Times New Roman 12 pt. girl myself for my WIP. But in my corporate days, I loved the combination of Palatino and Helvetica for my resume.
I love Arial. I get annoyed that Times is usually the default. It seems to stiff and conservative to me LOL.
Cloudscome, are you calling me stiff? ;)
I love the font issue. People feel as strongly about fonts as they do hometowns, universities, etc.
I much prefer serif fonts, but think the Times family is overexposed.
I tend to choose a different font for every project. Currently working in Bookman, Book Antiqua, American Typewriter, and Caslon with oldface numerals.