The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth
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Cute dog on sofa
I haven't much to say and the world seems a bit grim, so … here's Bobbie. She doesn't care about that stuff as long as she gets to chill on the sofa.
14.02.2025 01:05 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
These kinds of thing don't work for me, but everyone's process is different. Creative inspiration is very personal, I think.
20.01.2025 12:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you!
07.01.2025 10:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Pros and cons
31.12.2024 16:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Obvs not the point, but someone at The Spectator needs to read GRRM's books before abusing them. No such things occur.
19.12.2024 21:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bit murdery
19.12.2024 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yes - I guess some novels have a kind of meta story that reveals itself - eg Owen Meaney and Use of Weapons. I’d be tempted to read those again.
12.12.2024 22:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
These things can edge towards snobbery, ie some novels are ‘worthy’ of repeat reads and others not, and I don’t accept that idea at all.
12.12.2024 14:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It’s so personal, isn’t it? I wouldn’t read Agatha Christie twice, but I know people who do. Whereas I might read James Ellroy or Walter Mosley more than once. I think it’s more about the reader than the writer.
12.12.2024 14:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
a soldier with a skull on his face and the words `` zombie apocalypse '' above him .
ALT: a soldier with a skull on his face and the words `` zombie apocalypse '' above him .
I hear folks with big Twitter/X followings say they're reluctant to come to Bluesky because they'll have to start again. I get that. The problem is, those followers on X are either RW arseholes or the left-over zombie accounts of people who've come to Bluesky. Are they really worth staying for?
11.12.2024 19:58 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you to the @societyofauthors.bsky.social & @samblakebooks.bsky.social for leading on this. Could we propose a code of practice for publishers to ensure transparency for stakeholders & customers, eg ghosts & illustrators must be named on the front cover? Smaller font perhaps, but present.
11.12.2024 10:36 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Other industries are required to give credit where it's due, eg movies and academia. Why not publishing?
11.12.2024 10:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
There are grey areas here between 'written by', 'story by' and so on. I've heard of some celebs who genuinely think they wrote something which has been heavily edited / borderline ghosted by the publisher.
11.12.2024 10:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yes. My only caution is that celeb books are propping up publishers' revenues, & it isn't clear whether they're cannibalising proper books or are additive. Some of each, probably. As a first step, a specific recognition of who actually wrote the book - preferably on the cover - would be positive.
11.12.2024 10:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Top stuff. Love it.
10.12.2024 19:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Yep, for sure. He's messing with the WRONG demographic.
08.12.2024 21:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
He's not easily bullied at corners and is a decent stopper. Old school, but good as a back-up.
08.12.2024 21:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ryan Mason will be searching out his ‘Interim Head Coach’ business cards right now.
08.12.2024 18:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I agree. I truly don’t want to cut off a revenue stream for publishers, but they should be clear when a work is written to a great extent by someone else. As you say, this should be addressed more strongly by SoA, CWA, etc.
06.12.2024 23:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, agreed. I daresay ghost writers like the income, and fair enough. I’m not against ghost writing per se at all. I just think the publisher should be more clear - find a form of words by which an interested reader can see who did what. It doesn’t seem a lot to ask.
06.12.2024 15:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This is a very good point.
06.12.2024 15:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Agreed, most likely, and sadly.
06.12.2024 12:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
True, of course, and the books may actually be great. But can’t they be honest anyway?
06.12.2024 12:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yeah, we’ve all grown kind-of accustomed to the celeb branding thing. People are inured to it. And I’m not trying to kill publishers’ businesses. But they could find a form of words that still allows the big, famous name on the cover, without being dishonest.
06.12.2024 12:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
People seem to think writing for kids is easier (and they couldn’t be more wrong). Most of the celeb stuff is derivative merch designed to be given as a gift, not actually read more than once.
06.12.2024 12:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
But if their job is reading an autocue, kicking a ball, cookery, politics or modelling - or they’re the Hawk Tuah girl - there’s a lower chance.
06.12.2024 12:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It’s a balance of probabilities. Did the celeb come from a script-writing, journalistic or comedy background? Do they seem to choose their words carefully and have an ear for language? Do they care about words? If so, there’s a reasonable chance they did the work.
06.12.2024 12:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Writing a novel is hard. It takes months of work, mostly alone at a keyboard. It’s mentally and emotionally taxing. If you didn’t personally do that work, don’t say you did. It’s dishonest, plain and simple.
06.12.2024 12:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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