More than 200 authors, including Naomi Klein and Sally Rooney, have signed a letter calling for increased pressure on investment management firm Baillie Gifford – sponsors of the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction – to divest “from companies that profit from Israeli apartheid, occupation and genocide”.
Exciting updates on my site development at Author Mulhall 📚! Stay tuned for the launch of authormulhall.com. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the current progress. 🤩 Are you liking the look so far? #writing#writingcommunity#writers#authors#web#webdesign
I would love to get your thoughts and feedback on my #BookCover from my latest book, The Challenges of Being Me. Do you like it? Does it capture your attention? Without knowing anything about the book, what genre would you say this cover best fits? #writingcommunity#bookstodon#authors@bookstodon
"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality."
A corporation is an immortal, transhuman colony organism that uses us as inconvenient gut-flora: no matter how much you love it, it will never love you back.
"Your favorite performer could get Long Covid and have to shelve their entire career for an unknown amount of time. The model we have been using isn’t sustainable, thoughtful, based on fact, or safe.”
My own fave came to play in Edmonton recently. There were a few reasons I didn’t go, but not wanting to watch while thinking about the above was at the very top of that list. I hope the mitigations described in this article become not just common but ubiquitous someday.
@IPEdmonton@jmcrookston I gotta admit - for purely selfish reasons, I was terrified when one of my favorite #authors caught COVID, and ended up with Long COVID.
I admire and adore her even more now, because she a) ADMITTED IT and b) when her next book was released, she told her publisher she would NOT be doing book tours to promote it.
She told fans she was willing to do maybe one signing at her favorite, local to her, independent bookstore but ONLY IF everyone agreed they would wear a good mask to protect her and each other.
I’m so glad, for purely selfish reasons, because I want her to be able to continue to write. Her books are a huge part of my life, and have been for decades. I absolutely encourage other authors to stay the fuck home as well.
I know it’s not practical - that if you’re not a hugely successful multiple NYT bestselling author, it’s not possible to just not hit the road to promote your work.
But goddammit, we are losing so many great artists to this fucking 100% preventable disease.
"We want to show how closely #journals & #authors are adhering to the scholarly standards of #publishing…It’s important that such information is readily available [since it's otherwise hard to find]…We’ve built an [#OpenSource tool] to automatically generate the label…We have created a third-party verification system, too."
Every time, you think it couldn't get any worse, a new revelation tops it off. As an author, I wonder how long it will take for the book market to be completely enshittified.
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