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
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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!!!!!
Apple, bring back the cute little clip-on Shuffle. Now is the hour
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Apple, bring back the cute little clip-on Shuffle. Now is the hour
Human men see something not like them, call it monstrous and strange and want to hunt it, to kill it. To master it.
Human women see something not like them, call it monstrous and strange and they want to date it, kiss it on the mouth. Make biscuits for it
Human women see something not like them, call it monstrous and strange and they want to date it, kiss it on the mouth. Make biscuits for it
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Human men see something not like them, call it monstrous and strange and want to hunt it, to kill it. To master it.
Human women see something not like them, call it monstrous and strange and they want to date it, kiss it on the mouth. Make biscuits for it
Human women see something not like them, call it monstrous and strange and they want to date it, kiss it on the mouth. Make biscuits for it
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You read books like Moby Dick and watch movies like Pinocchio and realise how bad a rep whales once had. They must have been thrilled when Jaws came along and focused all that negative PR on sharks. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Jaws was initially pitched by a whale
December 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
You read books like Moby Dick and watch movies like Pinocchio and realise how bad a rep whales once had. They must have been thrilled when Jaws came along and focused all that negative PR on sharks. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Jaws was initially pitched by a whale
Not to judge or brag, but there are films that came out this year - Sinners, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Frankenstein - that I've already seen more than six times, with at least three screenings while they were still at the cinema. Your "hard mode" being not including Star Wars is Baby Mode to me
December 8, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Not to judge or brag, but there are films that came out this year - Sinners, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Frankenstein - that I've already seen more than six times, with at least three screenings while they were still at the cinema. Your "hard mode" being not including Star Wars is Baby Mode to me
This writing is so good I have been chanting parts of it like a spell since I read it.
"The color of an email from an exec proposing a live-action remake. The color of the popcorn ceiling in the hotel room of said exec’s extramarital affair. It is the color of the word “exec.”"
"The color of an email from an exec proposing a live-action remake. The color of the popcorn ceiling in the hotel room of said exec’s extramarital affair. It is the color of the word “exec.”"
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This writing is so good I have been chanting parts of it like a spell since I read it.
"The color of an email from an exec proposing a live-action remake. The color of the popcorn ceiling in the hotel room of said exec’s extramarital affair. It is the color of the word “exec.”"
"The color of an email from an exec proposing a live-action remake. The color of the popcorn ceiling in the hotel room of said exec’s extramarital affair. It is the color of the word “exec.”"
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After the recent joy of Hard Boiled in a packed theater it hit me that one of the tragedies of capitalism’s manifestation of our tech age is that on top of imprisoning us in gilded cages disconnected from shared reality, they are transforming communal experience into an expensive, uncommon novelty.
James Gunn says theatrical releases are “incredibly important” for DC after the Warner Bros & Netflix merger news
“The communal theatrical experience is something that is incredibly important & remarkably well suited to our big spectacle films”
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
“The communal theatrical experience is something that is incredibly important & remarkably well suited to our big spectacle films”
(Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)
December 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
After the recent joy of Hard Boiled in a packed theater it hit me that one of the tragedies of capitalism’s manifestation of our tech age is that on top of imprisoning us in gilded cages disconnected from shared reality, they are transforming communal experience into an expensive, uncommon novelty.
Ah, yes. Cheese sex death, my household motto
I’ve found the perfect book for @traceyno.bsky.social (I’m a bit worried about the author’s other title though 🧀 🍆 ☠️)
December 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ah, yes. Cheese sex death, my household motto
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Shit. You know what this means?
The Wicker Man is a Christmas movie.
The Wicker Man is a Christmas movie.
On this day in Horror History, THE WICKER MAN was released in 1973.
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Shit. You know what this means?
The Wicker Man is a Christmas movie.
The Wicker Man is a Christmas movie.
Wait, the FIFA Peace Prize is real?!
December 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Wait, the FIFA Peace Prize is real?!
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December 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This be nap weather, lads
December 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This be nap weather, lads
If Wes Streeting accidentally fell through a portal that zipped him off to an alternate universe, where he'd spend the rest of his life having sentient, peripatetic plants following him around and screaming in his face at random intervals, ensuring he could never prepare for it, I'd be OK with that
December 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
If Wes Streeting accidentally fell through a portal that zipped him off to an alternate universe, where he'd spend the rest of his life having sentient, peripatetic plants following him around and screaming in his face at random intervals, ensuring he could never prepare for it, I'd be OK with that
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Funny how it's not "women being silenced" when women-led, inclusive organisations like Girl Guiding UK and the WI are strong-armed into excluding trans women.
December 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Funny how it's not "women being silenced" when women-led, inclusive organisations like Girl Guiding UK and the WI are strong-armed into excluding trans women.
Why isn't rodentine a real word (yet?). I don't like rodentlike
December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Why isn't rodentine a real word (yet?). I don't like rodentlike
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Not sure if any single part of academia felt more like a weird cheat code than Interlibrary Loan. Like, I just say a book I want, basically any book, and this crack team of experts just *get it*????
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Not sure if any single part of academia felt more like a weird cheat code than Interlibrary Loan. Like, I just say a book I want, basically any book, and this crack team of experts just *get it*????
I did everything on my to-do list today AND cooked two nice meals from scratch. Good job, Melinda. Proud of you, kiddo
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I did everything on my to-do list today AND cooked two nice meals from scratch. Good job, Melinda. Proud of you, kiddo
I'm going to have mute 'Die Hard', aren't I?
December 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I'm going to have mute 'Die Hard', aren't I?
This was the sea this morning at dawn
December 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This was the sea this morning at dawn
This is my new dream. I want to win the champagne pig award
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is the only literary accolade to present its winner with their very own pig. Here's this year’s winner, Rosanna Pike, with her new companion, aptly named after her winning novel: A Little Trickerie .
#BEWP2025 #ChampagneBollinger
Photo: Laurie Fletcher
#BEWP2025 #ChampagneBollinger
Photo: Laurie Fletcher
December 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This is my new dream. I want to win the champagne pig award
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
It's that time of year where I start thinking of @tomeaston.bsky.social every day when I have my morning satsuma
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
It's that time of year where I start thinking of @tomeaston.bsky.social every day when I have my morning satsuma
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November 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
One of the things I like best about staying in hotels in the UK is channel surfing the TV and doing exactly this. There's an especial sweetness in knowing that other people are watching the same thing at the exact same time, too. I think streaming 'content' and algorithms have stolen so much from us
also stumbling across something unfamiliar yet instantly compelling while channel-surfing TV or scanning through different radio stations
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
One of the things I like best about staying in hotels in the UK is channel surfing the TV and doing exactly this. There's an especial sweetness in knowing that other people are watching the same thing at the exact same time, too. I think streaming 'content' and algorithms have stolen so much from us
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Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.