• "Replicate This" has a Goodreads page.
• So does «Мол»! [14:21]
• "Replicate This" is now being promoted via a new modality thanks to BookBub's suggestion of how to gain followers on their website. [15:06]

23 April 2025

• Shared my "Replicate This" promotion with Coin-Operated Press's network/community.

24 April 2025

• "Replicate This" is following «Мол» to LeanPub next week.

25 April 2025

• «Мол» submitted to Itch.io's Disabled Creator's Jamboree thanks to a tip from "Beth and Angel Make Games."
• "Replicate This" and «Мол» are bundled on Leanpub.

27 April 2025

• Mumblecore Reboot, «Мол», and "Replicate This" audiobooks plus one of their ePubs are bundled DRM-free (a $230 value) at Disabled Creator's Jamboree on Itch.io tentatively on sale May 5.

28 April 2025

• On Ko-Fi, asking for money to fund an ISBN for the new eZine. Don't hestitate to ask Hannah "hw3012[at]nyu" Walser about it.
• extremely delighted and grateful to say Coke-Oven approved my printfund request.

29 April 2025

• Submission to PRUDEmag.

30 April 2025

• Disabled Creators Jamboree Bundle Sale is online.
• Update 18 May: offer 'disabled' because of bullying.

7 May 2025

• Making a zine for consignment from Nathalie Lawhead's "Electric Zine Maker" in the Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle on Itch.io

12 May 2025

• NYRB's publicity line is off the hook.

15 May 2025

• Thanks, BookBub, for the $10 ad credit.
• My ad copy is scholarship; but why is Rick Burnes at his Desk for BookBub on a Sunday at 8:15 a.m. and/or what's that email scheduling about?

  

• Amazon Music/Audible will distribute Spell Cast
• Alice Wong's publicist hasn't called like the receptionist, Hailey?, promised.



• Preprints of print-on-demand paperback (e)Zines transferred as query for distribution to AK Press

18 May 2025

• Emailing Alice Wong for an interview on livestream.

19 May 2025

• Alice Wong's publicists.

20 May 2025

• Making two artist zines; published for sale with cut/fold/sew tutorial on Itch.io; the photo-zine with Electric Zine Maker is for around 31 May.
• revised ad creative:

  

  (the results were psychiatric)

• shared to Litsy and Coin-Operated Press

23 May 2025

• Excited for issue-two of Carrier Pigeon Quarterly... Sign up to be notified of its release!

  

25 May 2025

• resubmitted to Disabled Creators Jam with all earlier work plus a new photo-zine ($75 or email me) after accessing my payout from the previous round :)

29 May 2025

• My "Sedgwick" will be included in Micro Chicago's third 'paper festival' edition of "The 'L' Cycle" on July 28th.

3 June 2025

• Compiled my CV, picture, and handles into a 16-page micro-mini with EZM rather than another lebenslauf.

10 June 2025

• really delighted to have placed on of my print-on-demand zines in Joe Hohman's summer edition of Carrier Pigeon Quarterly, which retails for $1 on his ko-fi. Thanks to Joe for mailing a copy for free. You could preview it here.

20ish June 2025

• designed a front and conceptualized a 6-page folded zine that will be given to registrants of "Theory to Practice" from 6/30 on. I may also retail it on Itch.io for $1000 to lurkers.

24 June 2025

• A 'desktop publishing special effects' jamboree for itch.io soon.

25 June 2025

• Editorial policy.
• https://nikamavrody.itch.io/magic-zine. Venmo me for the password.

30 June 2025

• wheat paste coheres synthetic leaves.

2 July 2025

• shop my Biz Card from Ko-Fi using bit.ly/e-Bizz

3 July 2025

• "Sedgwick," an innovative autofiction, was yesterday's stop on the MicroChicago express...
• Zine Librarians unConference in November is fielding applications

7 July 2025

• The Novella Spring Garden deadline was extended from October to Spring 2026.

10 July 2025

• "My Choice Always in All Ways" is what I'm reading on the way to Chicago Tool Library later this afternoon. Thank you for the review copy.

23 July 2025

• A mod posting yesterday for the Novella Spring Garden "server" informs me about "recent itchio takedowns on certain NSFW content."

26 July 2025

• Found a Chicago-backup for GOOG Play distro after launch date in October to Printers Row, since that Sept. 9 fair is at capacity before the July 31 vending application deadline this week.
• Spotify weare claiming 33 additional distributors in when «Мол» published 21 April... I succeeded with three. From 1 August, InAudio hosts that service: "Findaway Voices."



• I have an independent Google Play 'partner' account, and there are actually 2 versions of the title on that website.
• Email marketing from Spotify at 12:03 07/28 explains InAudio will be spinning off their distributing and to publish directly with Spotify before going to InAudio.

27 July 2025

• CozyCon Cosmos sent an email on 19 July "letting me know that I have successfully been approved by staff for at least one space in Vendors" from September 19-21 while 'graph two reads: "Space request 1 requesting a Regular listing has been waitlisted."
• Eater's /best-indie-food-zines-history-food-media-disruptors/ joins that post by Advance, in shifting THE narrative about THE future (of 'the book') from tech genres like newsletter or podcast. Those metrics will equal online.

28 July 2025

• PodSEO emailed to say "Magic Spells" is only №84 in rank for the "keyword" wordplay.

29 July 2025

• 9798315404996 is disactivated on Google Play.

31 July 2025

• Inaudio retains Spotify's distribution partners.



• news from CozyCon: "This email message is to let you know that you have successfully been processed by staff for at least one space in Vendors. Space request Space request 1 requesting a Regular Listing has been denied."
• from the writers open mic at Eli Tea Bar: Camping is a proofed novella about therapy, COVID-19, and literal demons. No connection to Novella Spring Garden!

1 August 2025

• Neuro Fitness got June's 'awesome disability' grant for a bowling e-vent ticketing with approximately "$65/participant in advance."

4 August 2025

• Indie Lit Catalogue acquired my number from Ingram, which I began using because of a Salon.com post about how their affiliate, Bookshop.org, was distributing ebooks to independant bookstores. (Ingram pushes to Bookshop; one of my titles was listed with a 404 entry... "our tech team is working on getting that sorted," Bookshop's Zach H wrote on April 8). Ella Lewis' number recorded to my phone at 11:09, then my father sent a message at 11:17 saying she called him (perhaps because he has an account with Ingram too), and she called again at 11:22 saying (when I asked): 'he gave me your number.' Although Ms. Lewis denied my question about whether Indie Lit Catalogue's placement's are fee-based, her interview about Replicate This were not substantive but leading towards promotion for a $299 printing of bookmarks.
• I could not apply to the 2025 Chicago Printers Guild Publishers Fair when it opened yesterday because their Google Form requires uploading files as submission, and Google has been extorting me by blocking access to new messages on Gmail and using Drive because I can no longer afford their subscription-tier storage. 1 hour ago on Instagram via a hot pink "sweet 16" graphic CPG announced they will only accept submissions to Google for the waitlist (without replying to my email "Google Form difficulties" sent August 2nd at 4:46 PM).

5 August 2025

• interpreting that as early reception for *GOOG Play*

10 August 2025

• The idea of a Byronic hero *is* byronic since his profile is rather more comedic in accordance with his "Don Juan"'s tone rather than its plot or conceit. Most likely his self-fashioning plus success fused with gossip percolating from Alexandra Beglitzi's debut: remembered on Wikipedia for "marriage" to Μαυροκορδάτου, it's more probable accuracy on that URL stands with his descendence from Vlad the Impaler, which a redirect posits should also be recalled as "Vlad Dracula" ("not to be confused with 'his father' Vlad Dracul, the fictional character Count Dracula, or the fungus Vladracula"). In spanglish, could we?, "Dracula" breaks into Dr. Acula (aкула is 'shark').
• Maybe there was a Vladr whose tribe hadn't surnames.
• "The new genus Vladracula P[aul] Cannon [Royal Botanical Gardens], [Dave] Minter & Kamal [@drsalk] is introduced" (1986)
• vladracula was previously labeled achizothyrium annuliforme: thyrium is αρκανανία while thymus is a gland...
• mint is sometimes fuzzy enough to resemble mold

12 August 2025

• APNews.org is cleared for browsing; further testing notices its casino links 404
• Hello, AP News. Is one of your reporters married to Robert Whitaker?
• the Associated Press collaborates with 69-73 viruses: 1rx.io, 2mdn.net, 33across.com, 360yield.com, 3lift.com, adform.net, adkernal.com, admedo.com, adnxs.com, adsafeprotected.com, adsrvr.org, agkn.com, amazon-adsystem.com, bidswitch.net, bounceexchange.com, casalemedia.com, contextweb.com, creativecdn.com, criteo.com, crwdcntrl.net, deepintent.com, disqus.com, doubleclick.net, doubleverify.com, facebook.net/com, google.com(4), gumgum.com, id5-sync.com, indexww.com, intentiq.com, ipredictive.com, kargo.com, liadm.com, lijit.com, loopme.me, media.net, mfadsrvr.com, moatads.com, ntv.io, omnitagjs.com, onesignal.com, openx.net, outbrain.com, parsely.com, permutive.com, pippio.com, postrelease.com, pubmatic.com, quantserve.com, rlcdn.com, rubiconproject.com, sail-horizon.com, scorecardresearch.com, sharethrough.com, smaato.net, smartadserver.com, socdm.com, sonobi.com, stackadapt.com, stickyadstv.com, taboola.com, tapad.com, tru.am, truste.com, turn.com, undertone.com, yahoo.com, yield.mo.com, zemanta.com
• MadInAmerica's B2B-stickies are addtoany.com, doubleclick.net, google(3, counting YouTube)
• 'addtoany' {"no trackers blocked"} could seem harmless if ADD weren't a stigmatizing acronym.
• DockDockGo finds zero trackers on google.com two minutes ago, though Google Trends belies ongoing data-collection from search
• Neocities had zero trackers in the CMS, possibly installed front-page surveillance recently
• issuing a 'sensitivity warning' for AI-generated content.
• has Associated Press scooped me on the 'drones in Europe' ✓iew?

13 August 2025

• DAIR Institute launched zines August 2024.
• their 'issu' flip appeals but it's the 'accessible' view (transcript) marking real innovation
• zines.dair-institute.org
• "workshop companion doc" isn't appropriate for me: language such as "weird" or "mad" is othering.
• in-line with 'tech dogma' rather than their branding about representing an alternative, the "zine library" is actually more like "content marketing," which has been extremely demeaning to me as an independent scholar and artist.

14 August 2025

• nplusonemag.com is tagged with chartbeat.com, doubleclick.net, facebook, and google.
• zero viruses on DAIR institute's website

15 August 2025

• Michaelangelo font is not the one I'd want from him but what he would aspire to if assigned typeface creation.
• inquired with High Concept Labs about their Works in Progress series.

17 August 2025

• pritzkerpavilion.com/jay-pritzker-pavilion-schedule lists "no upcoming events."
• Everything's its own ride by The Bean: how would a field-recorded symphony of breath be out-of-place with "Faces of Millennium Park?" What was the word "vision" doing in that ESS copy, anyway?
• honestly is everyone "a language artist" or is someone excelling with their discipline besides me, if you will.
• i interact with anything given sans extrinsic paratext, and protect myself from the remainder.
• microChicago baited two acting gigs I said yes to which they ignored and included a latinate specification of my surname's orthography in the compiled ebook. Are you aware that could mean intellectual property theft? (AI knows less about the difference between Sergey Mavrody and Sergey Brin than David Remnick/Fred Turner.)
• even doctoral candidates in STEM read the backlist. arting art is "artsy;" accumulating cultural capital would be homework-insurance for some people. no shade to all.

18 August 2025

• the app to vend at Midwest Queer & Trans Zine Fest (Oct 18-19) is successful.

19 August 2025

• Eaglespeaker Publishing is bringing Andrea Grant's "Modern Natives" to Kindle next week; stay tuned for the print edition!
• Andrea's latest turns up the glamour on "MINX," a feminist cyberpunk superhero tale we published indie (I helped with distribution).
• Andrea Grant went into the entertainment business with one modelling job for Camel Cigarettes post-university.
• Afterwards Grant leveraged her image to platform vulnerability using first-person modes of storytelling.

21 August 2025

• Happy news with a pre-print of the Wildlife issue from Coin-Operated Press with a photo by me.
• globalbooknetwork.tv (zero trackers) drafted a kind blurb for Replicate This, albeit hoping I would pay for their sponsored content interviews: "'Replicate This' is a very bold and intellectually provocative work that challenges traditional notions of scholarship, psychiatry, and cultural theory. Together with literary history, psychiatric critique, and cultural discourse, you create a book that is not just academic in tone but also reflective of the ongoing tensions between power, knowledge, and human flourishing. Readers of 'Replicate This' will reconsider how theories are constructed, circulated, and legitimized across disiplines while also interrogating the intersections of psychology, literature, and cultural studies in a way that is both complex and groundbreaking."
• I am excited for Novella Spring Garden!

22 August 2025