Kat Latham

#Forever

This book is so incredibly wonderful, Olivia, and it was pure joy for me to celebrate every milestone along the way! 😍

Why bother? Because right now there is someone Out there with A wound In the exact shape of Your words

Poem by Sean Thomas Dougherty

📣 You can do it! 📣

Including one of mine!
Thank you, TBQ, for your amazing book-deal notices 💖

View of the sun setting over water and a harbor

#Amsterdam, you are beautiful tonight.

Writers! Would you like to have your book finished, ready and in front of publishers in six months’ time?

Kate Nash Literary Agency is now open to applications for our 2024 #BookCamp Mentorships. Full details here: katenashlit.co.uk/2023/11/09/e...

Hand holding a hardback book "Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai" by Jim Colucci

For Very Important Reasons*, I ordered this beauty, and it just arrived. It's even more stunning than I expected. 😍
Happy I-Don't-Need-A-Reason-To-Treat-Myself Day to me!

*book lust

Every episode of Columbo includes a scene where he tells the killer that his wife is a huge fan of their music, acting, cooking, art, etc.

And then he arrests them for murder.

The whole show is all about Columbo destroying all the things his wife loves. Pure emotional terrorism.

Screenshot from Meta requiring the user to pay to protect their info from being used to target ads at them. The text says it's because "laws are changing in your region".

Is anyone outside the EU getting the same message from Meta?

14/24
Not bad for someone who's never read Tolkien

Screenshot of Meta offering to stop using personal data to target ads at the user on Facebook and Instagram, in exchange for EUR 12.99 a month.

Aaand here we go. Meta is now offering to stop using my info for targeted ads if I pay a mere €12.99 a month. The last few months they've been targeting me with content for truckers in the U.S., so not entirely accurate anyway. So, do I pay €155 a yr to block ads, or keep scrolling for free?

Unopened 18th-century love letters to French sailors read for first time Letters from loved ones of captured ship’s crew during seven years’ war lay forgotten for centuries

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/06/unopened-18th-century-love-letters-to-french-sailors-read-for-first-time

#history🗃️

News item explaining that the Hollywood companies are offering to compensate living actors for scanning their faces for AI< but claim they can reproduce the faces of dead actors at no cost.

"We will probably pay you so we're not technically stealing *your* face, but we will absolutely steal the faces of your beloved dead" is not the winner the AMPTP thinks it is.

Speaking as someone who needed donor blood to recover from childbirth, THANK YOU!

NaNoWriMo doesn't have to be 50,000 words. The point is just to get you writing, and if that means you open up your draft every day and think about it a little, that can be your win!

Don't let huge goals dissuade you from smaller, attainable ones.

Hard agree. Olivia is the bee's knees, and so are her books.

Helloooo!!!