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Sam Missingham

@samatlounge.bsky.social

Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy.

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Innit

03.03.2026 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s how I would feel I’m sure

03.03.2026 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is a lifestyle that has no appeal to me whatsoever. They're welcome to it.

03.03.2026 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I keep seeing videos from Dubai saying how safe it is etc, but what I'm interested in is that they all seem to be 'mindset' or fitness coaches or a combination of the two.

Let me show you how to go from less than 20k per month to 100k+per month etc

Are they all just coaching each other, or what?

03.03.2026 11:19 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds good to me.

03.03.2026 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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School Library Association and Barrington Stoke launch newΒ Reader of the Year AwardΒ inΒ the National Year of Reading Ahead of World Book Day,Β and to celebrate the National Year of Reading, the School Library Association (SLA) is launching a brand-new awardΒ in collaboration with one of the UK’s most inno…

Ahead of World Book Day, and to celebrate the National Year of Reading, the @sla.org.uk is launching a brand-new award in collaboration with @barringtonstoke.bsky.social πŸ“šπŸ“œ
teenlibrarian.co.uk/2026/03/02/s...

02.03.2026 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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On mania and creativity. I have some new glasses.

On Mania and Creativity.

New substack up.

Written before work, dogs staring at me, wanting walk. The usual.

open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

02.03.2026 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh thank you x

02.03.2026 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Abso-frikkin-lutely

02.03.2026 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social can you help me lovely?

02.03.2026 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well this is a fucking disaster, especially for book publishing.

Note: these are the very same companies that publishers are in conversations with, developing projects and selling content to (won't need to worry when they can legally steal it).

02.03.2026 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Any agents or publishers who follow me and do direct submissions, how do you manage the process of responding to writers, logging where you're at with each submission?

Is there software that does this?

02.03.2026 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tickets on sale now:
filmstories.co.uk/live-events/

Please help me spread the word too if you don't mind?

02.03.2026 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Yep, all shaped by the media

02.03.2026 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When Israel responds to an attack it’s called self defence, when Iran does it, it’s called retaliation or aggression.

Words matter.

Journalists are complicit.

02.03.2026 08:16 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

28.02.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11669    πŸ” 4726    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 153

another day in paradise!

01.03.2026 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it was a dirty job .....

28.02.2026 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states.

The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel.

28.02.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3448    πŸ” 1020    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 53

seriously, there were daffodils growing and everything!!

28.02.2026 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Took one for the team. 😩

28.02.2026 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Went to another one of those no-go zones in London. Terrifying

28.02.2026 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Making and maintaining websites for authors has become my speciality. I'm a proponent of the IndieWeb - indieweb.org - it is becoming ever more important to keep control of your online identity, to own your content.

28.02.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I mean, it's REALLY bad when they start bombing places where white people go on holiday, isn't it?

28.02.2026 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see.
He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work.
Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work.
www.mathew-owen.co.uk

28.02.2026 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 244    πŸ” 419    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 13

Agree, I don’t have an answer because there isn’t an ethical one.

28.02.2026 09:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, a reminder that it isn’t antisemitic to platform and monetise Nazis, but it IS antisemitic to say Israel shouldn’t kill innocent children.

28.02.2026 09:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Reminder to any authors thinking of starting a Substack www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

28.02.2026 09:23 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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The gammons are furious today.

27.02.2026 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

His failure really is a moment to savour

27.02.2026 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0