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The Con-a-Sutra Sweepstakes!

We’re celebrating the June 29 release of The Con-a-Sutra with a special sweepstakes. The winner will receive an original piece of art titled “Animal Xing,” created for The Con-a-Sutra by famed comic artist J.K. Woodward! The illustration is 12 x 18″, ink on cold pressed cotton watercolor paper. How to Enter Fill out the form below… Read more The Con-a-Sutra Sweepstakes!

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Smart Pop Classics: How Harry Potter Fanfic Changed the World (or at Least the Internet)

In the Smart Pop Classics series, we share greatest hits from our throwback essay collections. This week, Heidi Tandy (aka Heidi8) time travels back to the early 2000s and shows how much attitudes around fanfiction have changed in her essay “How Harry Potter Fanfic Changed the World (or at Least the Internet)” from Fic: Why Fanfiction… Read more Smart Pop Classics: How Harry Potter Fanfic Changed the World (or at Least the Internet)

Things We Loved This Week

Things We Loved This Week #4

In this week’s Things We Loved This Week we share (spoiler alert)…the things we loved! Read on for our pop culture recommendations, including convention news and bug rankings. Starfleet Is… featured in this interview! Robb Pearlman, aka our Editor in Chief and author of the upcoming Star Trek: Starfleet Is…, shared why Trek fans are… Read more Things We Loved This Week #4