@kerryburnetty
She/her #Author of pox-and-all #histfic women's fiction, repd by www.greeneheaton.co.uk Bath Novel Award LL Specialist Tutor in FE and HE. Hypnotherapist. Poet '5of9' Potty-mouthed lover of 📚 🐈⬛ #Trekkie 🖖 #writingcommunity http://writehead.medium.com
The pressure to publish more and faster was one of the most frustrating things about working in publishing. If I could say ONE thing to the publishing industry about how to make things better, it would be this: do not publish anything you are not going to support well with marketing.
At Daunt Books in Marylebone, London, just named the most popular bookshop in the world www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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@headofzeus.bsky.social
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
I'm not an agent. I know very little about selling books.
But I AM a lifelong #reader, and I know a heck of a lot about what makes a good story. 📖
Readers are the end goal and you know them (because you are one). Stop doubting yourself! You can do this writing thing! 😘
#writers #authors #books
All Rights Reserved. Those three words have appeared in the front pages of every book you've ever read. It couldn't be clearer.
All Rights Reserved.
It couldn’t be clearer.
Book piracy is theft.
Training your AI models on stolen books is theft.
Nerds to the rescue. Saving important data from being 'disappeared'. Digital #book burning is ongoing.
Once again, archivists and #librarians are the heroes.
www.datarescueproject.org/resources/
A publisher saying ‘we’re going to have to borrow author royalties’ to cover costs is really not okay?? Authors are entitled to royalties for their books. Why is this even a conversation? It’s a business CONTRACT. That is not your money. It’s AUTHOR royalties.
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Confuse a british person by saying "brian cox" and watching them try to work out which one from context clues.
Nerds to the rescue. Saving important data from being 'disappeared'. Digital #book burning is ongoing.
Once again, archivists and #librarians are the heroes.
www.datarescueproject.org/resources/
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I think that’s fair 🤭🤣
#SheShed
Anyone who would like to add the DEI international days and months removed from Google calendars, there's one you can add on www.cooleaf.com/blog/workpla...
What an excellent longlist of books for the @womensprize.bsky.social for Fiction 2025 - congratulations to all the writers🥂
We have a page featuring all 16 books plus a code to receive ⭐️15% off⭐️
Please support an indie (we are also a woman-owned indie ) 🧡🦊📙
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I’m still in the phase of seeing references to “King Charles III” and thinking “Who?”
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
I used to think Bond villains were too far-fetched.
If someone does this for my funeral I will haunt them forever and I will NOT be a friendly ghost
The extreme loop between "I am a monster for talking about my art right now" and "People need art to get through these times."
I'm still stunned that some people have no inner voice for their thoughts.
What, not even 'Anxiety Monkey?', 'Lord Doubtness, The Underminer?', 'Random cheerleader who shouts 'do it!' Or 'F@(< them all!', not even Morgan Freeman narrator'?
📚 #Writers #ND
Never feel bad about reposting your stuff on here because for the first year of this website we had an entirety of 20 daily posts that we all had to share and reheat like a communal soup
Somebody yelled at me for posting about Ganymede instead of /the state of things/ last night.
I know we’re (almost) all on the same page here, but a Bluesky without cute cats, science facts, and dumb jokes would be bad for everyone.
Great to see BookSky now has several sub-genres and you can sandwich the book emoji between two others to combine two groups 🙌
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CAT IN TESCO, THERE IS A CAT IN TESCO, THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE
The beautiful cover of my new novel THE ART OF A LIE 💚🍍🍦
Abir Mukherjee
@radiomukhers.bsky.social: 'A breathtaking, tension-filled, kaleidoscopic whirl . . . This book has it all. Masterful'
PREORDER here: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/laur...
More info below & more exciting news to follow soon...
Not a writer but if you want a good first sentence listen to the podcast "death by a thousand cuts" he really focuses on helping writers with that opening.
Authors! Submitting your story to an open call? As someone reading through 400+ submissions for an anthology, some tips:
Opening paragraph/sentence: I can tell within the first few sentences if a story is a 'no.'
'Maybes' turn to 'no's' by the end of the first paragraph. Brutal, but it's true.
YES THIS HAPPENED. Also in a general sense if ASL interpreters are working one of my events and there is time, I try to give them access to any prepared materials and generally go over things that I suspect will present an issue for them. The idea they're not needed or useful is shitty ableist BS.
