Why? Because your readers do. The literary world is full of people wanting to write children’s books, who haven’t looked at a children’s book since the 60s. Or people who want the sales associated with romantasy (or cosy crime, or sci-fi), but don’t actually know the genre, or want to read any.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1579: If you’re going to write in any genre (children’s fiction, SFF, romance, etc), you need to read EXTENSIVELY in that genre. You need to read current authors in the genre. You need to know what’s been done; what tropes exist; how the genre has changed.

I need more artists and creatives to clock this for what it is and stop self identifying with this DEAD trope.

It’s bad enough the rest of the world upholds this narrative, you don’t have to willingly do it to yourself.

This is the reason why you won’t be able to reach me today! 😮‍💨

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I laughed a bit too hard at this 😅😭

Coming soon!

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

Bemoaning the cost of UK electricity and in the same breath promising to do the one thing guaranteed to cause that cost to stay sky high is the sort of intellectual brilliance you'll only get from the world's leading tech moguls.

It’s great how the people who spent the last 20 years yelling everything that personally offends them is 1984 are now so dedicated to making that book our very dystopian reality.

The Woodrow Bobcats are know for, let's face it, not being very good at basketball. But all that's about to change with their new star recruit: a 2-foot bipedal calico cat!
Prepare yourself for basketball-playing cat cuteness overload in Yvonne Hsuan Ho's new comic, 'Butter Beans Ball'!

I do feel like part of the hatred extended toward Bluesky is a function of preferring to think that the alarm about the state of the country that’s common here is misguided or exaggerated. Dismissing the site as liberal doomers allows you to dismiss those concerns, too.

People are demanding we show empathy to a person whose whole career was built on spreading hate for anyone who wasn’t a straight white male. 😮‍💨

I’m just gonna leave this here, cos it sums this thing up better than I can right now.

This explains it better than I can

Daily DBZ 120-2. This guy’s really ticking Frieza off. He hurls some energy at the boy but everything bounces right off. Suddenly the guy transforms into a Super Saiyan, WTF! It really triggers Frieza’s trauma, but not for long because he quickly slices Frieza in half. Rip Frieza again.

Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.

Soooo…Is it time to take another look at the 2nd amendment yet?

As we work our way into autumn, transport yourself to sunnier weather by checking out our book recommendations from over August! We had quite the reading haul last month, so there really is something for everyone 👀
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Honoured and blessed to be able to help bring people like Joe Sacco to Yorkshire, and Linnea Sterte, and Patrick Horvath, and then sit them next to local comic hero’s Kristyna Bacynski and John Pearson and then sit THEM next to so many more incredible people making the most exiting work around ;-;

“Don’t politicise school shootings” as if it isn’t policy choice to allow gun lobbyists to influence looser gun laws in government.

Again, this is not a shot at Julia’s books. My issue is with the way books are marketed in this industry, and to what extent these kinda sales are manufactured and engineered by high street bookstores.

The shelf space and visibility will always be limited if this is the only way things are done.

Let me be clear, Julia makes good books.

But an undeniable amount of these sales is also down to the way her books are literally given their own separate shelves and signage in EVERY high street bookstore in the country.

These kind of numbers are bound to happen in that kinda set up.