Mispronounciation.

Ah now, I once saw Vanessa Feltz get OFF the Eurostar.

Weirdly I’ve had some of my most sloggish runs right before some big landmark I’ve been training for (a new distance, a race). The 5K on the horizon might have got into your head. Go again another day - this far into the programme, you know you can do it!

And related to passing through the accepted trad filter, the copyeditors/proofreaders/cover designers/printers used by reputable self-pub companies are literally the same ones used by trad publishers. (Speaking as both a freelance copyeditor and an ed director at one such company.)

The relative Big Smoke!

💯 Whenever I arrive back in London from quaint/charming Not-London, I feel as if I can finally breathe properly again.

Not sure if you’re actually looking for advice, but in case yes: where we are either X or Y; where either we are X or we are Y. If ‘either’ goes before a verb you need a second verb after ‘or’.

Excellent tip for copyeditors too. “Where are bombs kept on a plane normal reasons.” “PornHub just checking capitalisation.”

I mean, this one is particularly appalling. And from what you’ve said sounds like it’s maybe meant to be funny - which, just no.

Is it recent? A lot of very questionable things haven’t always been… questioned in fiction. So much more so now but all you can do is advise the author, really. I had one recently who declined to cut a racial slur that was definitely not serving a purpose.

Accidentally rereading Ali Smith’s Spring - thought it was still on the TBR pile. But I’d gladly read her shopping list so it’s a happy accident.

At a school fete in the late 80s I paid 10p to have my picture taken with the guest of honour, the Dulux Dog. The Dulux Dog! Had the photo on my wall for years after.