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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 2h

Wars, tariffs , paper, production costs and the battle to get our books seen means there is a crisis in publishing.

Indies do most of the heavy lifting in finding great new stories that the risk averse conglomerates shy away from.

Support Indies!

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Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

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Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 3h

Friends, I am starting a writing group. Please take a look and please share. Thank you
luluallison.net/writing-group/

Writing Group

Seven Seas Writers I am an author and artist with more than twenty years experience delivering workshops and projects in a huge variety of situations. My particular skill is building confidence and…

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Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 4h

Traditionally I dislike Pinterest but as everything online becomes a gaggle of opinions coming out of faces, I’m quite enjoying going back to pictures.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely thrilled to find myself on the shortlist of @renardpress.com’s Interwoven Poetry competition.

Really looking forward to getting the anthology and reading the other poems on the list - please do support their crowdfunder if you can!

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Interwoven Anthology – Poetry Competition – Renard Press

Interwoven: Poetry Celebrating Connectedness Following the success of the New Beginnings project in 2021, the Spectrum project in 2022, the Kinship project in 2023 and Building Bridges in 2024, the In...

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Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 16h

One like = one behated song

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Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 17h

Exquisite things can only be admired from afar

Or pretend-touched with the back of your hand, slowly, like a lady with her mouth open in a perfume ad

Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 17h

You’re not meant to join it.

You’d only spoil it.

See? Dead.

No one is communicating anything useful with the exquisite.

Useful things NEED to be messed, pulled,stretched, caressed.

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Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 17h

There’s no way in. No invitation. In fact it is a deliberate barrier.

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Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 17h

Exquisism
Exquisiosity
I’ve come to the conclusion that I hate exquisite. It makes things dead.

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Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 20h

Here is a piece I wrote about banned books.

Featuring none of my favourite people - Joey Barton, Rishi Sunak, Bro-normative and his best female-coded-services gal

And some of my favourite things - libraries, dangerous ideas, unthinkable kinks, spanking flamboyance

dorseteye.com/alert-alert-...

Alert! Alert! Freaks and Weirdos and Scary Ideas! - Dorset Eye

In a mindless scroll through social media yesterday, due, I hasten to add, to a friend’s indignation rather than my own preferences, I accidentally noticed ex-footballer Joey Barton. Joey Barton, foun...

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 21h

Just received a spam email from "Dayton Webre" informing me I 'may be eligible for Student-Load-Forgiveness under new 2025 guidelines". At the bottom of the email was the following piece of AI-generated text.
Do LLMs dream of composing that great hard-boiled American novel?

The text reads: "opened the door, and dropped quickly into the tangle hardest ordeal of all There was something weird and what the lads trouble was He could give him some comfort, and your eyes, and count five, laughed Max; now look, and see what I found"

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Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social · 23h

'What more electrifying palace of diversity is there than a well-stocked library?'
Brilliant article from @luluallison.bsky.social about the cowards who are banning books.
Read in full on Dorset Eye @dorseteye.bsky.social

Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 23h

Here is the whole article I wrote on Dorset Eye, for Banned Books Week:

dorseteye.com/alert-alert-...

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Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 23h

Here is the whole article I wrote on Dorset Eye, for Banned Books Week:

dorseteye.com/alert-alert-...

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Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the post - for Banned Books Week on Dorset Eye

dorseteye.com/alert-alert-...

Alert! Alert! Freaks and Weirdos and Scary Ideas! - Dorset Eye

In a mindless scroll through social media yesterday, due, I hasten to add, to a friend’s indignation rather than my own preferences, I accidentally noticed ex-footballer Joey Barton. Joey Barton, foun...

dorseteye.com

Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 1d

I’d love to come - will certainly aim for a London trip.

Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 1d

I think the ratio on here might be more 0.8%, 9.7% and 89.5%
#Chelsea

Screen shot of fb memory from 13 years ago:

I've just seen a man who could literally be the love child of John Terry and Dennis Wise. I estimate that 2% of you will be delighted by that prospect, 17% utterly horrified and 81% will neither know nor care what l'm on about.

Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 1d

I know. I can’t bear it. Though at least it might mean the chipper copper stays away

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Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 1d

Fuckenada if the Archers doesn’t eventually reward me with Chris and Alice getting back together I’m going to be very pissed off. I’ve put up with too much George and what’s her face to go quietly …
#theArchers

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 2d

KESHED LONDON LAUNCH IS CONFIRMED.

Thursday 12th March, Bard Books, @judecook.bsky.social in the host's chair, tix link as soon as i got one. News incoming on the official online launch, more as soon as i have it.

#BookSky #GetKeshed 📚📚📚