No, libraries are not a 'product'. They're a public service. They're not about making money; they're about making sure that everyone - regardless of circumstances - can access books and a place to study in peace. If you want a bar with books, open one.

Do you think there are too many books being published?

This is so bizarre. Dulux have a new ‘books as paints’ range. Since when was Jane Austen ‘comfortingly warm’? Why is Frankenstein beige?

“It’s an insult to people to suggest that ‘hard work’ is all it takes to succeed. It’s far more complex.” 🤔

Sam Delaney 'Sort Your Head Out' OUT NOW tackles the 'myth of hard work' in this week’s column and the role that opportunity, privilege & luck play in any success story. 💼👇
bigissue.com/opinion/myth-h…

Ok, any agents or publishers out there looking for speculative novels about bi boys, vrykolakes/the undead, toxic masculinity, generational trauma, the effects of war and empire, and the complexity of Cypriot identity before I throw this book aside?

💫New Salon Event💫
'Creativity and #MentalHealth '
Online, Thu, Apr 25, 13:00 BST
Feat. the brilliant Rose Ruane and H.Spandler 🐾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈.

Link via registration, embedded on desktop page 👇 or DM.
#HistPsych #Zines #MedHums #MadZines #MedicalHumanities

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Delighted to see that Evie Muir’s Radical Rest - out from Elliott & Thompson this summer - is an Editor’s
Choice in The Bookseller

May 31st sees the release of 'All Empty Vessels' via Broken Sleep Books - a collaborative collection of poems written by Aaron Kent & myself.

It was so much fun.

Here's a taster from a bunch of sonnets I wrote.

Pre-orders open below 👇

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There’s too much weather. Why not stay inside with my book?

Occasionally I have a viral tweet

Bookworm Towers
Welshcakes v biscuits

Revisiting this. Do take note and look after yourselves. Writing is a joy, a wonder but, still, publishing is a tough world: nurture positive self regard and be mindful of those red flags!

I missed this
TWENTY BOOK DEAL
From this wildly successful self-publisher. Interesting

I am still waiting for all you GORGEOUS agents to write to me - she said, knowing this is not the way you're supposed to behave. 'But then,' she added devastatingly, 'supposed-to ways have proved desolate.'

In case you missed it, a delightful thread of Andrew Scott admirers

I made you a new book
Out 31/07
Broken Sleep Books
Pre-orders soon!

Naomi Wood Phoenix Books
I have spent the morning reading coffee & inhaling this short story collection. It’s got everything I love: motherhood, subversive women, darkness, humour & more 💙
Do NOT miss it:
Bookish chat
Anna Vaught
Years Of Reading Selfishly
Tilly

Whoah this light
Come over if you’re sad. I have books, blankets, buckets for your tears, kittens, the kettle is on - plus I’m defrosting some Welshcakes - ooh warm, is it - with butter?