Ghibli Meme Insanity, Amazon Film Boss Steps Down, Men's Elf Romance - Fandom Pulse Weekend Briefing
Friday was so busy I forgot to put up the Daily Briefing! Thanks all for clicking anyway and reading through the weekend. We had some of our bigger articles of the last month out the last few days. Definitely read the article with sci-fi author John Van Stry. He dropped some very interesting information on publishing that we hope to be doing more interviews like this as a regular feature on Fandom Pulse.
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