Tiny Owl Workshop
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tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
It’s very much like asbestos. The companies also knew asbestos was harmful early on, but there was too much money to be made. The fight for compensation was long and companies used tactics like delaying court proceedings for years to deny those dying from asbestosis and mesothelioma compensation.
tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
It is a hard time for academia for sure, but pretty much every sector outside of academia hires people on the basis that they will go find money (contracts, sales etc) to fund their own salary + the salaries of others + a big return for investors.
tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
Children’s books should win all the literary awards.
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
Does not bode well for publishing.
rbreich.bsky.social
The Pentagon’s new press policy bars journalists from reporting anything that hasn’t been approved by the Trump regime.

The NYT, Washington Post, Atlantic, and NPR are refusing to sign the agreement.

Kudos to the media outlets standing up to this blatant authoritarianism.
tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
‘… it isn’t really funding or institutional backing that decides a magazine’s fate, but the determination (and health, and age) of the flesh-and-blood people behind it. If they have the energy and desire to keep on, the magazine will continue.’

Great read. Thanks @gitaralleigh.bsky.social
thelondonmagazine.bsky.social
'There’s big trouble in the world of little magazines.' — Tristram Fane Saunders

Tristram Fane Saunders on what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish without any fanfare.

Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
Essay | Why Magazines Fail by Tristram Fane Saunders - The London Magazine
Drawing on recent literary magazine closures, Tristram Fane Saunders asks what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish.
thelondonmagazine.org
tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
Yayyy. In an AI world it seems vital to talk about the joys of the creative process more broadly.
tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
I’m genuinely not sure. It’s just unfathomable to me.
tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
I’m never really sure why many writers festivals leave out games, zines, comics etc.
The writing, world building, artwork and design work involved is often inspired- and made to be shared.

#writers #writersfestivals #games
Box cover of the Ticket to Ride: Europe board game. Artwork shows. Black steam train, a quaint station, snow peaked mountains in the background and a few Victorian figures in the foreground. A bright 15 million Ticket to Ride Games Sold sticker is placed in the bottom right hand corner. Cover of A Place for All My Books board game. The artwork is soft and cozy, with a brown haired person seated on the ground in front of a full bookshelf. They’re surrounded by other stacks of books, with a cat sleeping on one stack and a hot drink places on another.
tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
‘He plays by a different playbook and it's working.’
I assume she means the Project 2025 playbook?
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gitaralleigh.bsky.social
I've been published by 3 presses on this list and enjoyed books by many more.
If you're interested in commenting on or joining a roundtable on the future of small presses in the UK, link to the form is here: #smallpresspublishing #indiepublishing #ukpublishing
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mycommunistcat.bsky.social
Its true. I can reveal that I was called into Antifa HQ today & taken into the lair of our leader, known only as The Subcomandante (seen here in black to conceal his real identity). Apparently I haven't punched enough Nazis this week. He was not pleased.
The true leader of Antifa dressed in feline black with whiskers.
tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
Interesting things about the UN launching two global governance bodies on AI. It highlights:

- the utter lack of governance and oversight to-date
- the lack of trusted scientific advice on AI
- the willingness of governments to label AI as an economic must-have, and sell out workers despite this.
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tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
If public servants talked about writing the way writers talk about writing:

- Wrote 20,000 words today
- Wrote my billionth foreword
- Used 1st, 2nd & 3rd person in same paragraph
- Another launch 😭
- Had a million edits. Gave editor the original version. She says it’s perfect now
- Need coffee.
tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
Favourite words read so far today:

‘the Elephant of Revolutionary Oblivion…’

(In Citizens by Simon Schama)
tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
This is Momo, my cat.
This is his answer to anything he does not want to do.
Close up of tabby cat paw, where to stripes on the top of the paw appear to spell NO.
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locusmag.bsky.social
We can't review what we don't receive! Check out our submission guidelines to consider sending us your work! We love small press authors and are always on the lookout for New & Notable work.
Submission Guidelines
What genres of books and stories does Locus review? We review science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative, surreal, slipstream, crossed genres, similarly themed YA, art books, and related nonfict…
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...
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gwillow.me
In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.
tinyowlworkshop.bsky.social
The - I hadn’t read any of his work as I was in CAIRO at the time blah blah - superiority flex at the beginning does temper the oof a bit though.