C.C. Finlay

I'm very sorry. Sending love and strengh.

I have space available in my editing calendar, and I'd love to fill these spots. I do developmental editing of novels and novellas. More info and contact link here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing

Ah! Much appreciated, thanks.

But I would happily accept correction from UK residents who understand the system better than I do.

Education and training statistics for the UK, Reporting year 2025 Annual data release on schools, pupils, teachers, qualifications gained, education expenditure, further education and higher education in the UK.

Afaik, UK students take O-level exams at 16 to identify those who should take A-levels/prepare for training or higher ed. After 16, school is no longer mandatory. In 2025, 12.8% of youth aged 16-24 were not in school and not employed.

explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...

I love that song. It's an all-time favorite.

Why gender-balanced leadership matters in uncertain times A growing coalition of leaders is taking decisive action to accelerate gender parity in leadership. Five of them explain why diversity is the first step toward building resilience.

The % of women in new senior leadership appointments in 16 countries peaked in 2022 at 34.8% but has fallen for 3 years to 32.8% in 2025. McKinsey finds companies in the top quartile for gender diversity are up to 25% more likely to outperform financially. www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

Black Horror | Call for Submissions We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions which is now open!

Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social and I are editing an anthology surveying the evolution of Black literary horror. Tentatively titled Black Horror, Then & Next: We Have Always Dreamed in Darkness (FlameTree Press), here are the guidelines…
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

2nd picture is the old Kirkbride hospital, on the National Register of Historic Places, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, about 12 miles away. Over 1,500 people lived there at one point, making it 10x bigger than Elizabeth (no slander toward Elizabeth, just pointing it out).

Having benefited greatly from the guidance of @ccfinlay.bsky.social , this is one I’ll be sorry to miss! (Unless I can write a new novel by July…)

The Deadlands Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM Fiction

Hoping to see more submissions from under-repped groups in my submissions—don't self-reject, it's easier to send me a story about death. We're open until 12/31 (midnight eastern).

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

Oh, hell yeah! Congratulations!

Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread?

Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

I was still in bed
when Monday Morning said
"Wake up, sleepyhead."

His older brothers Doormat Knievel and Wishywashy Knievel hadn't amounted to much, so they had to try something.

Maybe audiences are just risk averse right now, so higher ticket prices (Broadway show, first run movie) discourage casual entertainment because people can just find something new on streaming instead. Want something new? Go dive into K-dramas on Netflix or whatever.

<3

You are well loved, man.

so good

I HAD NO IDEA

seriously, this is the first time I ever heard the original version

it rocks -- thanks!

Well don't I feel stupid

The smaller players are acting with the courage and righteousness that the bigger and more powerful entities all lack. What is the point of money, influence and power if you're not going to use them to do the right thing? Why does wealth reduce men into simpering cowards?

Thoughts, Bob Iger?

Non, non, non! (As the French would say.)

As happens with every. Single. Pilot. Program. That ever looks at anything akin to UBI, it is cheaper to just straight up help people get to a modest financial baseline than to deal with the outcomes of not helping people in poverty.

It’s not news until we deploy it at scale.

In short, I caution against the identification of small businesses as full-blown capitalism rather than looking at most small business owners as fellow members of the class of citizens exploited for the benefit of elite super-capitalists. /fini

Our unconscious acceptance of and treatment of these social structures as inevitable and the natural order of things instead of looking at it as a set of socially and collectively constructed values only benefits and perpetuates the rule of elites. 6/x