Natalie Morrill
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All things counter, original, spare, strange | THE GHOST KEEPER - HarperCollins Canada 2018
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💙 I am so so pleased you like it! (& I agree, it is a beautiful cover. But you are far from the first to mention feeling it was misleading!)
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Part of it was, "We really want a lady on the front since ladies buy fiction." But friends, is this maybe because you keep printing fiction with romance-esque covers
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Lol my agent & I brought this up with the publisher & the response was "Marketing says this will sell better" 🤷‍♀️
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"She was harassing people." "She was accusing people of crimes." I guess I can make these assumptions, but I'm not convinced all the examples of letters bear them out, & even so... prison. It seems extreme, 1980s Britain. (But she does love it!)
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I love Alan Bennett, & I love Patricia Routledge, & I love this monologue specifically, but I also admit to being baffled as to how she ended up in prison for sending too many letters
youtu.be/iOqgDmaYdqA?...
A Lady of Letters
YouTube video by Rick Salvi
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Had a little frog on my front door (spring peeper) when I went out for a run this evening. He briefly hopped inside but I shoo'd him out again. No frogs in the house, please.
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Every time I do this to Gus, this Onion headline rebukes me
Screenshot of headline from The Onion reading "dog's eye gunk wiped back on dog"
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NYT I'd like to use one of my three wishes, please, to ban the word "brothy"
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I don't think the cabbage gets enough respect.
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The concept of this image came up in a conversation awhile ago, so I made it during my flight
Flag with text "dont tread on me, mom" and the image of a rebellious teenage snake riding a skateboard
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Imagining how sticky her desk must have been after she painted this
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sandersha mangoes, painted by amanda almira newton, 1907
sandersha mangoes, painted by amanda almira newton, 1907
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Opportunity here for publishers with no marketing budgets to reframe this as a positive: "Unlike other (?) publishers, we will NOT take away your opportunity to plan a marketing campaign for your own book."
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A student of mine was worried that a potential publisher might not like the fact that they, as a former marketing student, had come up with a marketing plan for their book—"Would they insist on handling that themselves?" & this was one time where I got to go, "Buddy, I have great news for you."
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Truly... shall we say... eclectic set of interests here
Screenshot of text reading, "... and devoted himself to such useful tasks as managing the finances of the Mind Association (formed to oversee the running of the flourishing journal of the same name), ghost-hunting (still a respectable occupation for gentlemen) and the sterilization of the poor."
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So lovely to join Liisa Kovala on her podcast!

(Ed: I mention in this conversation that my agent has sent a manuscript to my publisher... False alarm! She is holding it off till November.)

Listen here: open.substack.com/pub/liisakov...
Thumbnail image for the "women writing podcast" showing photos of natalie and liisa
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"... paint the portrait or the porch. Try again after the miscarriage; love the children whose hands you wash and the children whose hands you never got to. Get the puppy. Live. Live. Live."

Very beautiful short essay:
www.plough.com/en/topics/li...
Six Kids and Six Pets
A chaotic puppy taught me to embrace the beautiful messiness of life.
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