Ben Morris
@benmorris.eu
Just another writer you've never heard of. I blog from time to time at https://disintermediated.blog
Tuesday's Le Monde, front page, below the fold. #goodbyeamerica says it all. Gaza, Venezuela, Greenland, ICE, Ukraine. Brute power, money, corruption, extraction, piracy, murder, genocide. What an unbelievably ugly story
February 5, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Tuesday's Le Monde, front page, below the fold. #goodbyeamerica says it all. Gaza, Venezuela, Greenland, ICE, Ukraine. Brute power, money, corruption, extraction, piracy, murder, genocide. What an unbelievably ugly story
Books going out, news sheet to bookshops, the other side of writing life! #partisan @thiefpress.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Books going out, news sheet to bookshops, the other side of writing life! #partisan @thiefpress.bsky.social
Partisan is published! Most of the supporter copies have now been posted, and if they haven't arrived they should be with you soon.
January 15, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Partisan is published! Most of the supporter copies have now been posted, and if they haven't arrived they should be with you soon.
Soft proofs approved, cover and text! Phew! PARTISAN is at the printer's, finally :)
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Soft proofs approved, cover and text! Phew! PARTISAN is at the printer's, finally :)
50,000 dead Palestinian children. The equivalent of every child in the Haringey triangle. Imagine that #stopthegenocide
July 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
50,000 dead Palestinian children. The equivalent of every child in the Haringey triangle. Imagine that #stopthegenocide
@nylarene.bsky.social This is one of my OC's :) My skills are basic & my tools trad, but I have fun anyway! He's the Englishman, from my novel:
July 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
@nylarene.bsky.social This is one of my OC's :) My skills are basic & my tools trad, but I have fun anyway! He's the Englishman, from my novel:
#Pavese (left) - Leone #Ginzburg - Franco #Antonicelli, first to publish Primo #Levi in an edition of 2500 copies, some of which sold - Carlo #Frassinelli - editors, publishers, writers in the days before publishing became just another content business.
From Vento di guerra sulle Langhe
From Vento di guerra sulle Langhe
July 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
#Pavese (left) - Leone #Ginzburg - Franco #Antonicelli, first to publish Primo #Levi in an edition of 2500 copies, some of which sold - Carlo #Frassinelli - editors, publishers, writers in the days before publishing became just another content business.
From Vento di guerra sulle Langhe
From Vento di guerra sulle Langhe
Which books will stand out on the bookshop table?
July 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Which books will stand out on the bookshop table?
Book #design, stealing from the best :) First dummies from Arctic (thx I love you!) for format/layout/paper tests, reference design is @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social (love you too) but I prefer the squarer page 1:✓2 of French revolutionaries & Tschichold OF COURSE #niche as my wife says #books
July 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Book #design, stealing from the best :) First dummies from Arctic (thx I love you!) for format/layout/paper tests, reference design is @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social (love you too) but I prefer the squarer page 1:✓2 of French revolutionaries & Tschichold OF COURSE #niche as my wife says #books
Love these little dung beetles. He's playing dead, hiding from my finger :)
July 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Love these little dung beetles. He's playing dead, hiding from my finger :)
This is a fab read if you're into type stuff #typenuts #fontfreaks & typography. s/w dev warning, metal type etc not typed language type :) #kinross
July 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This is a fab read if you're into type stuff #typenuts #fontfreaks & typography. s/w dev warning, metal type etc not typed language type :) #kinross
Among the many things the post-Brexit UK publisher must worry about is #GPSR for which you must include a european physical postal #address o/wise e.g. no N Ireland or online europe sales. Step 1 proof of concept, verify a suitable shortform address. And the postman liked the postcard too :)
July 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Meanwhile there's a gorgeous chill in the air after last night's rain & I'm late to start work as ever with my ever neglected vines
July 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Meanwhile there's a gorgeous chill in the air after last night's rain & I'm late to start work as ever with my ever neglected vines
Reading this, Colwill Brown. Strange & interesting We Pretty Pieces of Flesh (not sure it quite deserves its romcom jacket)
July 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Reading this, Colwill Brown. Strange & interesting We Pretty Pieces of Flesh (not sure it quite deserves its romcom jacket)
It's still up on the wall, but look at the date :( our govts did nothing & still it continues, every damned day #palestine #holocaust
June 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It's still up on the wall, but look at the date :( our govts did nothing & still it continues, every damned day #palestine #holocaust
This fell out of a book. Can't remember the year, but it was a fab production. Some things are forever, even if we ain't! #minghella #madamebutterfly
June 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This fell out of a book. Can't remember the year, but it was a fab production. Some things are forever, even if we ain't! #minghella #madamebutterfly
& on the fridge of course :)
June 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
& on the fridge of course :)
June 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
A tale of two covers! Could they be more different?!
June 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
A tale of two covers! Could they be more different?!
