Kate Morrison

It shows that the criticial Goodreads review had gone largely unnoticed, that many couldn't stomach the book privately, but didn't feel able to speak up (how right they were), until Clanchy poured petrol on the review, set it alight for everyone to see, and then blamed everyone else for the fire.

Reminder this all started off when someone quoted her book on Goodreads and she threatened to sue them. For quoting words that she wrote. In her book. That she wrote.

Hi I've dropped you an email - I can't use send wave as not on iphone.

Will do!

Hello sorry just seen this - you can message me on katecmorri@yahoo.com

Tried to write a thread on this as Kate Clanchy is back in the news but it won't post. This is a good article on the whole shameful affair, by @michaeljarvie.bsky.social

www.culturematters.org.uk/kate-clanchy... my review.

Pointing out racism in books is not an ‘attack’ – it’s a call for industry reform | Monisha Rajesh I was called aggressive for criticising passages in Kate Clanchy’s memoir. But the real problem lies deep in the overwhelmingly white world of publishing

As the latest rehabilitation tour revs up its engines, here’s something more honest to read.

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/a...

57, 100 words now god help me

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Donate to Help the LGBTQ Refugees of the Kakuma Camp, organized by Brie Harris Thank you all so much for your donations! The situation is still dire there so … Brie Harris needs your support for Help the LGBTQ Refugees of the Kakuma Camp

Sharing again in case anyone is able to help support #LGBTQ+ refugees in the Kakuma camp in Kenya, who are facing extreme hardship & threats to their safety. Donations can help with security, basic needs, education & healthcare:

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A black cat sitting next to a copy of Human Rites by Juno Dawson

It looks like I put the book next to the cat but in fact the cat put herself next to the book.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ For the whole Her Majesty's Royal Coven trilogy by @junodawson.bsky.social, I've not quite finished this final book (Human Rites) but I love this whole coven of witches ✨

Watched the waning gibbous moon rise up on Glastonbury Tor earlier this week ( actual moon not shown due to crapness of photo)

Screenshot of an email: Hi Rachel, Thank you for contacting us about the article you’ve seen. We want our stores to be inclusive and welcoming places for our colleagues and customers. We have written to this customer and explained that our colleagues typically work across all departments in our stores and customers can always ask to speak to the colleague they feel most comfortable with. We also explained that our colleague was asking a customer if they needed help; they were not working on bra fit or offering this. Thank you again for getting in touch.

I wrote to M&S about the stupid lingerie department story - confirms nobody offered a bra fitting to a teenage girl. The Telegraph and JK can (always) do one.

Dazzling by @chikodili.bsky.social

That's it that's the best book

lifeline4gaza - a list of appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza lifeline4gaza gathers links to existing chuffed & gofundme appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza.

Another incredible resource is lifeline4gaza.com, which currently includes 400+ funding appeals from people in Gaza and displays the amount donated over the last 5 days. Open the link and you will see the appeals ordered from least to most donations so the most neglected campaigns are at the top.

Inclusive kids publisher Tiny Owl closes after decade due to 'little support for diverse-led publishing' Inclusive children’s publisher Tiny Owl has closed after 10 years and 50 books, citing lack of support for diverse publishing and difficulties following the pandemic.

““As outsiders, we built everything from scratch. There’s still too little support for truly independent, diverse-led publishing – and the playing field isn’t level.”

We’re so sad to hear that Tiny Owl Publishing is closing after 10 years.

www.thebookseller.com/news/inclusi...

Definitely, it's at least a big pile of words that can be sorted into better words, rather than no words at all!

Into the fairy toot One of the most remarkable archaeological experiences it is still possible to have in Britain (thanks to the care of English Heritage, Cadw, Historic Environment Scotland and other heritage bodies) is...

In the latest free post on ‘All Old Strange Things’ I enter the fairy toot… open.substack.com/pub/drfranci...

I definitely didn't have to do nine drafts of my first book before it was finished

No no no it's MATHS

white circle in a blue background and the words "It's Monday! What are you reading?" in the circle

It's Monday again and today I'm reading Britain's Folklore Year by Norman Mark

What book(s) are you reading this week?

💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

alt text in images please

OWLS

spongebob has a rainbow on his head and the word maths is on the bottom of his face . Alt: spongebob has a rainbow on his head and the word maths is on the bottom of his face .

I have written 45,000 words of my new book and if I write another 45,000 I'll have 90,000 and that's a book

Donate to Providing a haven of hope for my child Omar, organized by Eva Bianco My name is Eva Bianco, Soad Eqbal Al-Mutrabii asked me to make a gofun… Eva Bianco needs your support for Providing a haven of hope for my child Omar

Soad in Gaza has had her bluesky account closed again. She's really scared she's going to lose her son Omar. He's getting weaker and thinner and keeps falling over. Can you help with some ££ for vitamins and food? It would mean a lot. www.gofundme.com/f/providing-... #FreePalestine

Remembering Sir William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Queen Elizabeth I's Lord High Treasurer and most influential minister, who died #onthisday August 4, 1598 at Cecil House in Westminster, London, at the age of 77. #Elizabethan #Tudors

Can you donate to this project supporting LGBTQ refugees? Their current aim is to set up a poultry project in the camp: 👇

This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.

An archaeological trench, cut down to chalk geology

An archaeological trench cut down to chalk geology with green tent covering features being investigated

An archaeological trench cut down to chalk natural with archaeologists investigating prehistoric features

Its the last week of excavations by @wtm.uk @nattrustarch.bsky.social and Worthing Arch Soc on Highdown Hill above Worthing

They've found lots of exciting prehistoric, Roman and sub Roman material

Great to see the later life of this early hillfort being explored

📷 yesterday

#HillfortsWednesday