Polis Loizou 🦊
@polisloizou.bsky.social
Writer, performer, storyteller, both bi and curious • A GOOD YEAR (Fairlight Moderns) 📚 • East Med to East Mids 🇨🇾🇬🇧 (he/him)
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In which I talk about attending a writing event, selling 5 books, making £37 and having a nice time.
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On the Leicester Local Writers Book Fair
Today I attended the Leicester Writers Book Fair at the Central Library.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
In which I talk about attending a writing event, selling 5 books, making £37 and having a nice time.
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I don't think I can talk any more than I do about how I make almost no money from any of my creative projects, yet I still have people who know me IRL assume I'm living off writing.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I don't think I can talk any more than I do about how I make almost no money from any of my creative projects, yet I still have people who know me IRL assume I'm living off writing.
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Check us out performing the theme from "New York, New York" LIVE!
Conducted by Mike Paul-Smith, this big band with strings is touring the UK with joyful festive spectacular "Swing Into Christmas". Alongside festive faves, you'll hear non-festive classics like this one!
youtu.be/ZsROBKqDTE4?...
Conducted by Mike Paul-Smith, this big band with strings is touring the UK with joyful festive spectacular "Swing Into Christmas". Alongside festive faves, you'll hear non-festive classics like this one!
youtu.be/ZsROBKqDTE4?...
Theme from New York, New York performed LIVE by The Down for the Count Swing Orchestra
YouTube video by Down for the Count
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November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Check us out performing the theme from "New York, New York" LIVE!
Conducted by Mike Paul-Smith, this big band with strings is touring the UK with joyful festive spectacular "Swing Into Christmas". Alongside festive faves, you'll hear non-festive classics like this one!
youtu.be/ZsROBKqDTE4?...
Conducted by Mike Paul-Smith, this big band with strings is touring the UK with joyful festive spectacular "Swing Into Christmas". Alongside festive faves, you'll hear non-festive classics like this one!
youtu.be/ZsROBKqDTE4?...
Sometimes I recall the enthusiastic buff book-lover on Twitter who'd post things like "I find thrillers really exciting! Do you find them exciting too?" while pictured holding a Dan Brown in his oak-sized arms and a stream of blue-tick authors would giggle, "I do find thrillers exciting, yes!"
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Sometimes I recall the enthusiastic buff book-lover on Twitter who'd post things like "I find thrillers really exciting! Do you find them exciting too?" while pictured holding a Dan Brown in his oak-sized arms and a stream of blue-tick authors would giggle, "I do find thrillers exciting, yes!"
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Ex-comedy writer tries to suggest a Jewish politician is untrustworthy because he reclaimed a surname changed by his folks to evade antisemitism.
The Venn diagram is a complete circle.
The Venn diagram is a complete circle.
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Ex-comedy writer tries to suggest a Jewish politician is untrustworthy because he reclaimed a surname changed by his folks to evade antisemitism.
The Venn diagram is a complete circle.
The Venn diagram is a complete circle.
The phone spies heard me say I regret not continuing my Grade 8 piano and now every single ad is for digital pianos.
The Internet has become my mother.
The Internet has become my mother.
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The phone spies heard me say I regret not continuing my Grade 8 piano and now every single ad is for digital pianos.
The Internet has become my mother.
The Internet has become my mother.
Applied for a creative opportunity where the organisers used a randomiser to pick a longlist from the applicants.
So now I not only waste my time only to have my work rejected on its own merit, but also by Fate in some digital roulette wheel.
So now I not only waste my time only to have my work rejected on its own merit, but also by Fate in some digital roulette wheel.
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Applied for a creative opportunity where the organisers used a randomiser to pick a longlist from the applicants.
So now I not only waste my time only to have my work rejected on its own merit, but also by Fate in some digital roulette wheel.
So now I not only waste my time only to have my work rejected on its own merit, but also by Fate in some digital roulette wheel.
Wong Kar Wai's 30-episode TV series, excuse me?!
Wong Kar Wai’s BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI 🌹✨ Premiering exclusively on the Criterion Channel tomorrow at 8pm ET! From the director of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and CHUNGKING EXPRESS comes a dazzling new 30-episode series set against the rise of 1990s Shanghai.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Wong Kar Wai's 30-episode TV series, excuse me?!
Here, we can see a man who very clearly remembers racially abusing fellow pupils.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Here, we can see a man who very clearly remembers racially abusing fellow pupils.
British trains these days 👎
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
British trains these days 👎
Off to Folkestone for another show with the swing orchestra. Last time I was there was for the Eurotunnel, so will do my best not to accidentally get on it now.
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Off to Folkestone for another show with the swing orchestra. Last time I was there was for the Eurotunnel, so will do my best not to accidentally get on it now.
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I have had it with the justifications. The weaponization of poverty, neurodiversity, mental illness, all of it.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I have had it with the justifications. The weaponization of poverty, neurodiversity, mental illness, all of it.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
if you follow me and are using my RTs of authors' books to pirate books (many who are financially struggling, I might add), then frankly fuck off.
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I didn't know people did this and now I want to pay someone to flood all the pirate sites with 'adjusted' versions of all my romance novels.
I truly hope if you're downloading books that you download one of the ones that are uploaded with the fake endings, the random "and then he shit in her mouth and turned her into a zombie" that i know someone is adding that to her romance books & has her sister upload dozens of versions of that.
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I didn't know people did this and now I want to pay someone to flood all the pirate sites with 'adjusted' versions of all my romance novels.
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I hope Madonna falls down a man hole.
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I hope Madonna falls down a man hole.
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
(adaptated from theatre, whatever)
(adaptated from theatre, whatever)
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
(adaptated from theatre, whatever)
(adaptated from theatre, whatever)
British women using "mate" ironically is my Achilles' heel.
November 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
British women using "mate" ironically is my Achilles' heel.
A SYRIAN CAFE OPENED UP IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD!
SERVING TAHINI CAKE!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
SERVING TAHINI CAKE!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A SYRIAN CAFE OPENED UP IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD!
SERVING TAHINI CAKE!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
SERVING TAHINI CAKE!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
What a treat to come home to.
Thank you, @deadinkbooks.bsky.social!
Thank you, @deadinkbooks.bsky.social!
November 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
What a treat to come home to.
Thank you, @deadinkbooks.bsky.social!
Thank you, @deadinkbooks.bsky.social!
Husband Date in Nottingham afore I skedaddle back on tour.
Vietnamese cafe for a banh mí lunch, followed by a different Vietnamese cafe for egg coffee, where we planned our trip to India for 2026...
Vietnamese cafe for a banh mí lunch, followed by a different Vietnamese cafe for egg coffee, where we planned our trip to India for 2026...
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Husband Date in Nottingham afore I skedaddle back on tour.
Vietnamese cafe for a banh mí lunch, followed by a different Vietnamese cafe for egg coffee, where we planned our trip to India for 2026...
Vietnamese cafe for a banh mí lunch, followed by a different Vietnamese cafe for egg coffee, where we planned our trip to India for 2026...
I always say poetry can be absolutely anything, that there are no rules. But I still want there to be an *art* to a poem, ya know?
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I always say poetry can be absolutely anything, that there are no rules. But I still want there to be an *art* to a poem, ya know?
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They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
They line up perfectly.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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I’ve sold more copies of my “50 LGBTQ+ Finds “ book in the past 6 months than my “50 Finds from Essex” book has sold in the past 8 years. 😭
Thank you everyone who has bought a copy!
Thank you everyone who has bought a copy!
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I’ve sold more copies of my “50 LGBTQ+ Finds “ book in the past 6 months than my “50 Finds from Essex” book has sold in the past 8 years. 😭
Thank you everyone who has bought a copy!
Thank you everyone who has bought a copy!
I don't know if this title needs a comma and if so, where, and I hate that for me.
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I don't know if this title needs a comma and if so, where, and I hate that for me.
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In case you missed it, in the October episode of the Bethnal Archives I discuss the history of the witch trials and the significance of Colchester in this period of speculation and fear. youtu.be/lgnM56MCLqk?...
The Real Reasons The Witch Trials Happened| Ben Paites | Bethnal Archives Podcast
YouTube video by Bethnal Archives
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November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
In case you missed it, in the October episode of the Bethnal Archives I discuss the history of the witch trials and the significance of Colchester in this period of speculation and fear. youtu.be/lgnM56MCLqk?...