Paul Sellars
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Paul Sellars - Editor | Reedsy
Croydon, UK Editor: Copyediting and proofreading, fiction and non-fiction. Clients include Canelo, Head of Zeus (Bloomsbury), HarperCollins, and Penguin.
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Writers! Editors! Looking for a copyeditor or proofreader? I'm available now! Horror, thrillers, historical fiction, etc. etc. 📚 #writingcommunity, #writerscommunity, #writers reedsy.com/paul-sellars
A damn fine cup of coffee… @gralefrit.bsky.social @willmac23.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A damn fine cup of coffee… @gralefrit.bsky.social @willmac23.bsky.social
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European Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris): The Head & Body length of this rodent is 23cm (9in) with its tail adding 20cm (8in). Beautiful Red Squirrel photo taken by Pamela Parker on the Isle of Wight in the UK. #squirrel #redsquirrel #rodent #red #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
September 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
European Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris): The Head & Body length of this rodent is 23cm (9in) with its tail adding 20cm (8in). Beautiful Red Squirrel photo taken by Pamela Parker on the Isle of Wight in the UK. #squirrel #redsquirrel #rodent #red #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
I find myself professionally at a loose end. Anyone in need of a copyedit or a proofread? Ebook formatting or typesetting? Do let me know! reedsy.com/paul-sellars #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writers #editing
Paul Sellars - Editor | Reedsy
Croydon, UK Editor: Copyediting and proofreading, fiction and non-fiction. Clients include Canelo, HarperCollins, Head of Zeus (Bloomsbury), and Penguin.
reedsy.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I find myself professionally at a loose end. Anyone in need of a copyedit or a proofread? Ebook formatting or typesetting? Do let me know! reedsy.com/paul-sellars #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writers #editing
Paul Sellars - Editor | Reedsy
Croydon, UK Editor: Copyediting and proofreading, fiction and non-fiction. Clients include Canelo, HarperCollins, Head of Zeus (Bloomsbury), and Penguin.
reedsy.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I find myself professionally at a loose end. Anyone in need of a copyedit or a proofread? Ebook formatting or typesetting? Do let me know! reedsy.com/paul-sellars #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writers #editing
I suppose Post Malone’s support acts are Pre Malone…?
September 3, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I suppose Post Malone’s support acts are Pre Malone…?
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Loved this excellent article on what a freelance editor can do for you. This interview shows just how invaluable real, thoughtful input from an actual human can be for your writing
honesteditor.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
honesteditor.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
An interview with an industry 'book doctor'...
What a freelance editor can do for you, and how to know when to use one...plus some excellent writing tips for when you feel stuck!
honesteditor.substack.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Loved this excellent article on what a freelance editor can do for you. This interview shows just how invaluable real, thoughtful input from an actual human can be for your writing
honesteditor.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
honesteditor.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
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This is DAY ZERO – the brief opening chapter of my first novel, Exo (out in November from Diversion Books), in which an experiment runs out of control and some scientists run for their lives. Unfortunately, they are caught between Scylla and Charybdis . . . www.colinthecopywriter.com/blogfeedrss/...
Exo Extract 1: Day Zero — Colin the Copywriter
DAY ZERO Seven minutes into the experiment, a slow-motion explosion rips through the lab. Empty space unfolds and five staff—four scientists and the comms officer—are instantly lost. She’s lucky, c...
www.colinthecopywriter.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This is DAY ZERO – the brief opening chapter of my first novel, Exo (out in November from Diversion Books), in which an experiment runs out of control and some scientists run for their lives. Unfortunately, they are caught between Scylla and Charybdis . . . www.colinthecopywriter.com/blogfeedrss/...
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They don't write 'em like this anymore. This yesteryear edition of Gerald Durrell's My Family & Other Animals has a blurb which reads like bookseller patter from 60 years ago. I love the list of animals moving from the ordinary & alliterative via the exotic to the sublimely ridiculous pet names.
June 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
They don't write 'em like this anymore. This yesteryear edition of Gerald Durrell's My Family & Other Animals has a blurb which reads like bookseller patter from 60 years ago. I love the list of animals moving from the ordinary & alliterative via the exotic to the sublimely ridiculous pet names.
Crikey.
So that now makes Lena McDonald, KC Crowne and Rania Faris leaving ChatGPT prompts in their ‘books’.
I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY.
Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙
I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY.
Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙
May 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Crikey.
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For Broken Veil, we had to include several UnGooglable examples of “chthonic babble” - strange but redolent phrases that imply meaning but are strange, inhuman, not part of our world.
It’s one of our favourite ideas. Wondered where the term originated.
Just Googled it. It doesn’t exist.
It’s one of our favourite ideas. Wondered where the term originated.
Just Googled it. It doesn’t exist.
May 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
For Broken Veil, we had to include several UnGooglable examples of “chthonic babble” - strange but redolent phrases that imply meaning but are strange, inhuman, not part of our world.
It’s one of our favourite ideas. Wondered where the term originated.
Just Googled it. It doesn’t exist.
It’s one of our favourite ideas. Wondered where the term originated.
Just Googled it. It doesn’t exist.
I currently have one follower for every day of the year. I will be visiting you all individually over the coming twelve months…
May 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I currently have one follower for every day of the year. I will be visiting you all individually over the coming twelve months…
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What I'd like to see is some banging together of heads. Some insistence that reality is real and not negotiable, that humans are violent apes with easily hacked psyches, and that no dream worth its salt can stand without carefully understood and engineered foundations. H. Sapiens, Know Thyself.
April 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
What I'd like to see is some banging together of heads. Some insistence that reality is real and not negotiable, that humans are violent apes with easily hacked psyches, and that no dream worth its salt can stand without carefully understood and engineered foundations. H. Sapiens, Know Thyself.
This is going to be good. Take a look, and back it if you can! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cro...
Coming soon: Lovecraft Investigations: Crowley
A Lovecraft Investigations audio series delving into the (true) life and works of Aleister Crowley
www.kickstarter.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This is going to be good. Take a look, and back it if you can! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cro...
Don’t make the same mistake! Hire a proofreader *before* you do all that climbing! (I’m available now!)
April 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Don’t make the same mistake! Hire a proofreader *before* you do all that climbing! (I’m available now!)
‘He requires shoes far larger than average – no mean feet.’
April 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
‘He requires shoes far larger than average – no mean feet.’
A barnstorming finale from the Broken Veil boys… pod.link/1745494718 Hats off to @gralefrit.bsky.social, @willmac23.bsky.social and the cast.
Broken Veil
Writers Will Maclean (The Apparition Phase) and Joel Morris (Charlie Brooker's Wipe) investigate weird, unsettling, possibly supernatural stories that have affected their friends, and explore the plac...
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April 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
A barnstorming finale from the Broken Veil boys… pod.link/1745494718 Hats off to @gralefrit.bsky.social, @willmac23.bsky.social and the cast.
I may now have settled on Ecosia… www.ecosia.org
Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees
Ecosia uses 100% of its profits for the planet and produces enough renewable energy to power all searches twice over.
www.ecosia.org
April 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I may now have settled on Ecosia… www.ecosia.org
This continues to be excellent…
EPISODE 5 is up, and we discover that we are not alone...as much as we might like to think we are. All aboard!
March 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This continues to be excellent…
Switched to DuckDuckGo for search a couple of months back. No regrets so far… duckduckgo.com
DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
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March 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Switched to DuckDuckGo for search a couple of months back. No regrets so far… duckduckgo.com
Highly recommended. Haunting in at least three senses of the word…
EPISODE THREE of our chart-topping new podcast. OUT NOW.
This time we find ghosts of the Cold War, and of other wars, and some things that never were…
It’s weird down there.
pod.link/1745494718
#BrokenVeil
This time we find ghosts of the Cold War, and of other wars, and some things that never were…
It’s weird down there.
pod.link/1745494718
#BrokenVeil
March 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Highly recommended. Haunting in at least three senses of the word…
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Hi everyone! If hearing about great books is your thing, then join us to discover more about all the exciting reads from British Library Publishing.
March 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Hi everyone! If hearing about great books is your thing, then join us to discover more about all the exciting reads from British Library Publishing.
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We have so many new books available. We have so few orders coming in. We would love to see that balance shift a little! Here are some of the new books we have up for order on our website. We also have some new stuff (not pictured) up for preorder. Mosey on over to our site and take a gander!
March 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We have so many new books available. We have so few orders coming in. We would love to see that balance shift a little! Here are some of the new books we have up for order on our website. We also have some new stuff (not pictured) up for preorder. Mosey on over to our site and take a gander!
Dreamytime Escorts, monsieur!
"If you don't kill Nicholas Parsons by twelve o'clock, I'll kill you!"
'Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door' was first shown on this day in 1988.
'Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door' was first shown on this day in 1988.
March 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Dreamytime Escorts, monsieur!
Disappointed to have been overlooked by the Academy. Again. 🙄
March 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Disappointed to have been overlooked by the Academy. Again. 🙄