William C Powell

The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...

First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.

Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.

Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...

First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.

Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.

Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...

The hand of the author was too visible, the tension too patterned. Did not DNF but will not venture another.

Time for a re-read...

1 million thanks for that. "When William IV Was King" is the book I needed.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 6:
Having a day job doesn’t mean you’re not a proper writer. Writing for children doesn’t mean you’re not a proper writer. Being unpublished doesn’t mean you’re not a proper writer.
Oh, and there’s no such thing as a proper writer. Only writers, and those who don’t.

I note that readers can buy (DRM-free) ebooks on the Wizard's Tower website also. Presumably the same offer is available there?

Oh, indeed. The techbros gonna steal, and play legal shenanigans. And the lawyers will get rich.

Reasoned argument to provide fair treatment for creatives, without stifling the AI industry.

Tell me more.

If not, then I've got a vastly improved MS that I can query with agents.

The R&R is from a UK-based small press that specialises in political writing, in this case historical crime set in the 1830s - a time with significant parallels with our own in terms of active wage depression, erosion of workers' rights.
If I've done the R&R right, then an offer should follow.

As my Revise & Resubmit approaches its conclusion I've blogged on the approach I've taken in Pass 3.
Pass 3 brings the focus back to the scene level, something that works well with #Scrivener. Other #editing and drafting tools are available.
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Thames Water wants to block campaigners from speaking out against them?! Enough is enough. The Government must renationalise this failing water company. Agree? Sign the petition today: Join the push to renationalise Thames Water!

⏰ Thames Water’s future is hanging in the balance. Billions in debt could be written off for private owners and it could remain in private hands unless we act fast.

53,000+ of us are calling for nationalisation. Add your name: 38d.gs/tw_bs

First Past the Post means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament. Add your name now to demand a fairer voting system It only takes 30 seconds

Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...

so nothing to drive users to change.

The default isn't Word. The default is .docx file format. So many programs can create it, many of them free.
The only obvious contender to that format is Open Document format. That format can also be handled by the same programs that handle .docx format. There is no advantage to either format

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Cover of Marie Cardno’s book HOW TO GET A GIRLFRIEND (When You’re a Terrifying Monster), featuring art of an eldritch being holding a bouquet of flowers in one of her tentacles.

Cover of Halli Starling’s book COUP DE COEUR, which features a sort of still-life scene of a table covered in things such as flowers, a spool of thread, oyster shells, a pearl necklace, scissors stabbed into a pomegranate, and a still-smoking candle.

Cover of Tamara Jeree’s book A WOLF STEPS IN BLOOD, featuring art of a young Black woman with red eyes and short white hair, gently touching the muzzle of a wolf that’s looking at her affectionately. The woman is wearing a leather jacket and a choker necklace, and her earlobes are gauged.

Cover of the book SEA SWALLOW ME by Craig Laurance Gidney, which features slightly abstract art of a Black man’s face pointed upward with a planet behind him and waves below him.

The Smashwords End of Year Sale is on, and the dauntingly long list can be hard to wade through (especially with all the gen AI these days). I’ve curated a list of books I recommend or am interested in, all AI free to the best of my ability, and all under $3! 🌈📚

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Three book covers by M Turville Heitz art by Ingrid Kallick, SPECTERS FROM A DREAM: https://books2read.com/u/380rA6 ISBN: EPUB – 9798991885300 ISBN: Trade Paperback – 9798991885331 A burning barn, a figure silhouetted in the flames as seen through a gap, with flaming arrows around the opening. Smoke coils up and away DREAD WARRIOR: https://books2read.com/u/bM8V77 ISBN – EPUB 9798991885317 ISBN Trade Paperback 9798991885348 A giant wave crashing over a small overturned sailboat with a sword-bearing warrior clinging to the hull of the vessel as a storm rages overhead. THE RISING OF KEDTAIR: https://books2read.com/u/bxx7ZP ISBN – EPUB 9798991885324 ISBN – Trade Paperback 9798991885355 Dragon-like conjurations sent to attack a white-clad, dagger-wielding figure. The gods left unfinished business after their ancient war among themselves. They banished, but didn't kill their foe, who now seeks his vengeance by laying waste to the gods' beloved creations: the land and peoples of Shande. The gods empower unlikely heroes Khoti, Arshal, Nali, and Resala – altering their fates with abilities that could destroy them – to unite Shande to somehow save the world. The Enchanter's Web, a nobledark epic fantasy trilogy of intrigue and sorcery, finds our heroes trying to manage powers beyond their control in a desperate war against stronger forces that have a mission to destroy the world. They count on many pieces falling into place. They didn’t count on the Enchanter’s web.

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