Victoria Blake from Underland: Guest Blogging Through Feb. 14th
Jeff VanderMeer • February 1st, 2009 @ 1:03 am • Uncategorized
Victoria Blake is the founder and publisher of Underland Press, an independent publishing house dedicated to weird, strange, odd, and unsettling fiction, in print and online. Formerly an editor on the prose side of Dark Horse Comics, Victoria came to books through a career in newspapers. Most recently, she worked as an art critic for the Oregonian. She is a graduate of Columbia University, Barnard College, and has just earned an MFA in fiction from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Victoria is my editor on Finch, and she’ll be blogging for two weeks while I’m away in Australia. She’ll be talking about Underland projects, the future of social media, and lots more. Please make her feel at home.
February 1, 2009 at 2:11 am
Hi Victoria! Looking forward to your posts.
February 1, 2009 at 3:53 am
Hi! Looking forward to what you might have to say about social media, as its a topic I’m considering for further uni studies.
February 1, 2009 at 11:36 am
Sure! Welcome to the fold, Victoria!
February 1, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Wish I had worked at Dark Horse Comics. Or could work at Dark Horse Comics. Or Underland Press. Actually, I’d settle for doing almost anything that isn’t what I am currently doing. Stupid economic lapse. Stupid horrible, soul-crushing government job security. Stupid horrendous college loans…
Anyway, keen. New sources of information are fun.
February 1, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Would love to hear something about Warren Wilson, as I have an idea, half pipe dream, half plan, of going there.
February 1, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Cool, James. (You’re still getting me that Booklife stuff, right?)
February 1, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Yep, I’m going to send it tonight or tomorrow morning. I asked a couple of longtime store owners if they had any advice they wanted to throw in and I’m just waiting to hear back from them.
February 2, 2009 at 7:47 pm
I’m working on my first post right now. It’ll go up in about a half hour. I’d be happy to talk about Warren Wilson. It was the perfect MFA program for me. I don’t have enough good things to say about it.