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!!!!!
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.
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I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
Introduce yourself quietly in your head
November 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Introduce yourself quietly in your head
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The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Creativity is a process.
It's. A. PROCESS.
If you don't love the process, that's okay. However, you can't skip that and still call it creativity or art.
There's no debate here. No dissembling. The end result—the product—of creativity isn't the defining characteristic.
Period.
It's. A. PROCESS.
If you don't love the process, that's okay. However, you can't skip that and still call it creativity or art.
There's no debate here. No dissembling. The end result—the product—of creativity isn't the defining characteristic.
Period.
November 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Creativity is a process.
It's. A. PROCESS.
If you don't love the process, that's okay. However, you can't skip that and still call it creativity or art.
There's no debate here. No dissembling. The end result—the product—of creativity isn't the defining characteristic.
Period.
It's. A. PROCESS.
If you don't love the process, that's okay. However, you can't skip that and still call it creativity or art.
There's no debate here. No dissembling. The end result—the product—of creativity isn't the defining characteristic.
Period.