Melinda Salisbury
@melindasalisbury.com
Athos in the streets. Aramis in the sheets. Porthos in the skeets
Author. https://linktr.ee/melsalisbury
Fix your hearts or die
she/her
Author. https://linktr.ee/melsalisbury
Fix your hearts or die
she/her
Pinned
Melinda Salisbury
@melindasalisbury.com
· Oct 10
David Fickling Books has snapped up an 'exceptional' new YA novel by four-time Carnegie Medal-nominated author Melinda Salisbury, sparking a six-figure US deal. Local Gods will publish in summer 2026 👇 #BookSky
Melinda Salisbury’s new YA fantasy goes to DFB and sparks six-figure US deal
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Hello, everybody! I have GREAT NEWS!!!!!
I like to write with other people because there's accountability in it, in seeing others being industrious and not wanting to be the weak link. Never did I expect that to extend to the maintenance guy my landlords sent over to do some fixes. I've never been as productive as under his 'supervision'
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I like to write with other people because there's accountability in it, in seeing others being industrious and not wanting to be the weak link. Never did I expect that to extend to the maintenance guy my landlords sent over to do some fixes. I've never been as productive as under his 'supervision'
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Most creative industries run on a business model that demands creatives constantly feed it with pitched ideas or free work on spec, but offers them no long-term employment or financial security. These industries are *subsidized* by the other work artists are forced to take on to support themselves.
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Most creative industries run on a business model that demands creatives constantly feed it with pitched ideas or free work on spec, but offers them no long-term employment or financial security. These industries are *subsidized* by the other work artists are forced to take on to support themselves.
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Made a colour variant Mr. Blobby because nobody can stop me anymore. I am beyond consequences.
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Made a colour variant Mr. Blobby because nobody can stop me anymore. I am beyond consequences.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
Has Rachel Reeves tried the Guardian Budget game? Because I made eight decisions, apparently all my backbenchers are happy, the markets are ok, I'm fine in the polls and the country has a £20.2 billion surplus, of which I'm putting ten billion into the arts. The people love me! I even had a whiskey!
Could you do better than Reeves as chancellor? Play our interactive budget game
Can you pull the levers of power to deliver a successful budget? Can you keep backbenchers happy without upsetting the bond markets? And can you do it all while keeping the books balanced? Try our bud...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Has Rachel Reeves tried the Guardian Budget game? Because I made eight decisions, apparently all my backbenchers are happy, the markets are ok, I'm fine in the polls and the country has a £20.2 billion surplus, of which I'm putting ten billion into the arts. The people love me! I even had a whiskey!
Fuck it, I'll do it.
I hope you all like cryptids
I hope you all like cryptids
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Fuck it, I'll do it.
I hope you all like cryptids
I hope you all like cryptids
JCO needs to finish this. It'd be a mercy killing
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
JCO needs to finish this. It'd be a mercy killing
When I was around nine or ten, my nana knitted me a Michaelangelo TMNT jumper, and I reminisce about it significantly more than I've ever reminisced about anyone I dated. At least once a week I think about the most perfect jumper anyone ever had, and it was mine
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
When I was around nine or ten, my nana knitted me a Michaelangelo TMNT jumper, and I reminisce about it significantly more than I've ever reminisced about anyone I dated. At least once a week I think about the most perfect jumper anyone ever had, and it was mine
One of the men on my train home, who spent the first half of the journey effing and jeffing with his bros about the football match they just watched, is now listening to Katy Perry's Firework loud enough I can hear it through his earbuds across the aisle
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
One of the men on my train home, who spent the first half of the journey effing and jeffing with his bros about the football match they just watched, is now listening to Katy Perry's Firework loud enough I can hear it through his earbuds across the aisle
Pappardelle
Orzo
Linguine
Rigatoni
Tagliatelle
Orzo
Linguine
Rigatoni
Tagliatelle
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Pappardelle
Orzo
Linguine
Rigatoni
Tagliatelle
Orzo
Linguine
Rigatoni
Tagliatelle
For lunch I made egg drop soup, but I also added some sesame oil-toasted mushrooms AND five chicken gyoza (in place of soup dumplings) and I would like some recognition of my genius, thank you
November 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
For lunch I made egg drop soup, but I also added some sesame oil-toasted mushrooms AND five chicken gyoza (in place of soup dumplings) and I would like some recognition of my genius, thank you
I am offering a Black Friday Deal. Give me 50p and I will give you a compliment that contains no fewer than five words
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I am offering a Black Friday Deal. Give me 50p and I will give you a compliment that contains no fewer than five words
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
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This poster makes me confident that they know what kind of movie they're making
New Poster for 'Wuthering Heights' starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.
In theaters Valentineʼs Day. #WutheringHeights
In theaters Valentineʼs Day. #WutheringHeights
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This poster makes me confident that they know what kind of movie they're making
This is one of the hottest things I ever seen in my life
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is one of the hottest things I ever seen in my life
Today the thing I hate most is companies emailing to "remind me" to leave a review after I buy something. Sir, I don't work for you. It is not my job to populate your website with SEO-affirming content. How dare you email me to remind me to work for you for free. Our business is concluded
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Today the thing I hate most is companies emailing to "remind me" to leave a review after I buy something. Sir, I don't work for you. It is not my job to populate your website with SEO-affirming content. How dare you email me to remind me to work for you for free. Our business is concluded
Where is my garden raccoon???
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Where is my garden raccoon???
Nothing feels as good as slipping into a bed primed with a hot water bottle
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Nothing feels as good as slipping into a bed primed with a hot water bottle
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Some lovely news. Somewhere Bobby and Robert are celebrating!
Congratulations to everyone shortlisted and thank you to the judges and Nero and to @canongate.co.uk and my agent Clare Conville and to every bookseller, librarian and reader for giving my story space.
Congratulations to everyone shortlisted and thank you to the judges and Nero and to @canongate.co.uk and my agent Clare Conville and to every bookseller, librarian and reader for giving my story space.
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Some lovely news. Somewhere Bobby and Robert are celebrating!
Congratulations to everyone shortlisted and thank you to the judges and Nero and to @canongate.co.uk and my agent Clare Conville and to every bookseller, librarian and reader for giving my story space.
Congratulations to everyone shortlisted and thank you to the judges and Nero and to @canongate.co.uk and my agent Clare Conville and to every bookseller, librarian and reader for giving my story space.
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Holidays are coming…
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Holidays are coming…
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It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
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This guy asked this question in 2016 and was literally never heard from again.
February 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This guy asked this question in 2016 and was literally never heard from again.
This is amazing news for me, as I now know there are two real-life people who match my freak. Kind of a shame they met each other first, though
fascinated by the couple next to us in this restaurant who just asked for the rest of their fondue in a doggy bag, aren't people compelling
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This is amazing news for me, as I now know there are two real-life people who match my freak. Kind of a shame they met each other first, though
The Christmas tree has gone up on my little High Street, locked behind barriers adorned with LIGHTNING-FAST FULL FIBRE BROADBAND banners. Every single decoration is a lightning symbol on a white disc. Merry Corporate Christmas; cheer is now privately owned. Can't believe a tree died for this shit
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The Christmas tree has gone up on my little High Street, locked behind barriers adorned with LIGHTNING-FAST FULL FIBRE BROADBAND banners. Every single decoration is a lightning symbol on a white disc. Merry Corporate Christmas; cheer is now privately owned. Can't believe a tree died for this shit
The goods have been secured!
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The goods have been secured!