Roll with the punches, roll out the door

Welcome to HookJab. HookJab started as a humble paper zine – a chance to write and publish articles on music, feminism, life, language. But I’ve now left the world of 5p photocopies and pritt-sticked fingers, oversize staplers and exhausting distributions, and officially joined the future. Say hello to the world’s squillionth blog.

HookJabBlog has grown up from HookJabZine. When I started zine-ing I was a student, and I wrote on any whim or flight of fancy. However, since I’ve been a professional writer for the last few years, it makes sense that this blog should be primarily on writing. Writing for the web, writing for search engines, writing for a living. Writing that disgusts me, writing that alarms me, writing that makes me swoon with jealousy.

So here’s the deal. I write, you read; then you write comments, and I read. Oh wait you knew that already, because you’ve been blogging since 1986…