The publishing industry's lack of confidence in authors and its own ability to create careers for them is pathetic and, in the end, self-defeating.
11.03.2026 11:51
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The publishing industry's lack of confidence in authors and its own ability to create careers for them is pathetic and, in the end, self-defeating.
A high stone wall with a large rectangle painted white. A sign attached reads ‘DANGER OF ROCK FALL Do Not Sit Beneath Cliffs’ By the wall a bench with two people sitting, one drinking tea.
Juxtaposition.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJuxtaposition #ClassicMono
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It would make for a lovely present if you'd have a listen, ideal for driving, or some light dusting. xx
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Probably better.
Happy almost birthday. Pisceans are the best. 🐟🐟
A podiatrist sits slumped, clutching my foot.
I’ve broken my podiatrist.
A new baby sleeping, swaddled in a blue shawl
New baby sleeping in a cot, hands in mittens
New baby in a flowery baby gro, laying down
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The only reason to publish with them is if you’re writing genre fiction and your readers are primarily an ebook audience. Sci-Fi, romance etc do really really well via Amazon. Better than thru trad. But if your work has a literary bent, definitely swerve.
I don’t publish thru Amazon but they harvest details from ISBNs & list whether you want to be on there or not. If I was doing it again I wldn’t have ISBNs & wld sell only from my website.That’s where 95% of sales have come from anyway. It means a far greater % and I get paid within hours of a sale.
In my experience the ordeal is made bearable - enjoyable even - once you shed the disappointment & go rogue. Indie success, however modest, disrupts an ailing industry. I only want to sell direct now. Given all Ive learnt I’m surprised more writers dont do it as a first resort rather than a last one
Will do.
OK. Can I buy him another book then?
A Keighley News headline that says SHOCK AS SNAKE FALLS FROM THE SKY IN HAWORTH.
Let it be known that when Hollywood has the good sense to produce my version of a Bronte classic, I will def be incorporating this plot twist.
A photo of Rula Lenska walking behind a large sundial sculpture. All you can see is a hand and a wisp of her trademark red hair.
Back in the olden days of Twitter, me and a friend held #CrapPap competitions. My Rula Lenska was a triumph.
A large abandoned mansion, built 1740, on the market for €795,000, in Waterford, Ireland.
Here you go. All yours.
Someone’s living room. There are very chinz curtains with a ruched pelmet. An ornate guilt mirror sits above a flame effect fire with a wood surround. The leather sofa and armchairs or a orangey tan colour and there’s a green draylon armchair. The wallpaper could be 1970s but it’s the carpet that I love. A black background with a floral ribbon design throughout.
I don’t want to buy the house, but I’m putting an offer in on that carpet. #EstateAgentPix
Yes carpet would be flung in a skip before I’d got the kettle on.
A bedroom is painted a very beautiful pink. The eye down is the exact same colour. The blue carpet is a bit of a disappointment but everything else is just lovely.
I’d change very little tbh. #EstateAgentPix
A flock of pigeons are packing the ground in the background, while a pig in the full ground is eating a carrot.
A duck and a pigeon make eyes at each other indoors in the hay.
FUNERAL PIGEON UPDATE :
Andrew (outdoors with pig).
Marie (indoors with duck).
I wonder how thorough you can be once you get into the hundreds?
A photo of Marie, the pigeon sleeping in the hay with a white duck close by.
Funeral Pigeon updated update.
Not sure how many books I read last year, but it will have been single figures. But a) I’m a slow reader, and b) I read every word, sometimes several times over if it’s particularly good.
Too healthy looking young pigeons, one with black speckled wings and the other with a lilac hue.
FUNERAL PIGEON UPDATE:
Andrew and Marie have made friends with and been accepted into the outdoor flock. They will fly free while being fed every day. If you’d like to chuck a few quid at the sanctuary who gave them the best start in life, then here’s the link.
🐦 ko-fi.com/calderdalebirdrescue
An abandoned mansion with no roof sits alone in extensive grounds framed by two trees.
This one’s for you @leemadgwick.bsky.social #EstateAgentPix
I’m trying to limit my social media scrolling, but it does mean I miss loads. I think I’m going to have to mute some shouty accounts to get more nuance in my feed.
That’s the dance he’s going to do when Mummy’s favourite gets banged up.
#HisMajestysPleasure
Yep. My schadenfreude is tempered by his being arrested over paperwork while the rapes go unchecked.
I come from a long line of Hindleys…
