Paul Sellars

That's one of Nigel Kneale's Martians, isn't it?

'Minuke' is an absolute banger.

A ‘Broken Veil’ mug, containing coffee.

A damn fine cup of coffee… @gralefrit.bsky.social @willmac23.bsky.social

European Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris): The Head & Body length of this rodent is 23cm (9in) with its tail adding 20cm (8in). Beautiful Red Squirrel photo taken by Pamela Parker on the Isle of Wight in the UK. #squirrel #redsquirrel #rodent #red #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography

And once more with feeling! #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writers #editing

Paul Sellars - Editor | Reedsy Croydon, UK Editor: Copyediting and proofreading, fiction and non-fiction. Clients include Canelo, HarperCollins, Head of Zeus (Bloomsbury), and Penguin.

I find myself professionally at a loose end. Anyone in need of a copyedit or a proofread? Ebook formatting or typesetting? Do let me know! reedsy.com/paul-sellars #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writers #editing

Nearer, or further away from, a window? Please let us know your findings…

When he taps on the glass to warn the scientist though – adorable!

I suppose Post Malone’s support acts are Pre Malone…?

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An interview with an industry 'book doctor'... What a freelance editor can do for you, and how to know when to use one...plus some excellent writing tips for when you feel stuck!

Loved this excellent article on what a freelance editor can do for you. This interview shows just how invaluable real, thoughtful input from an actual human can be for your writing
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Exo Extract 1: Day Zero — Colin the Copywriter DAY ZERO Seven minutes into the experiment, a slow-motion explosion rips through the lab. Empty space unfolds and five staff—four scientists and the comms officer—are instantly lost. She’s lucky, c...

This is DAY ZERO – the brief opening chapter of my first novel, Exo (out in November from Diversion Books), in which an experiment runs out of control and some scientists run for their lives. Unfortunately, they are caught between Scylla and Charybdis . . . www.colinthecopywriter.com/blogfeedrss/...

How splendid.

A fine collection of Martians there.

Dodged a bullet. 😮‍💨

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell with frog

Blurb: This book is soaked in the sunshine of Corfu, where the author lived as a boy with his 'family and other animals'. It is a matter of personal taste whether one most enjoys the family, with its many eccentric hangers-on, or the animals Gerry studies and brings back to the strawberry-pink, the daffodil-yellow, or the snow-white villa. The procession includes toads and tortoises, bats and butterflies, scorpions and geckos, ladybirds, glow-worms, octopuses and rose-bettles, Quasimodo the pigeon, the puppies Widdle and Puke, and of course the Magenpies.

They don't write 'em like this anymore. This yesteryear edition of Gerald Durrell's My Family & Other Animals has a blurb which reads like bookseller patter from 60 years ago. I love the list of animals moving from the ordinary & alliterative via the exotic to the sublimely ridiculous pet names.

Except they would have designed a truck that looked cool.

We're just playing it cool. Trying not to appear needy. 🤷‍♂️

The guy on the right is particularly badass. 🦖

Crikey.

For Broken Veil, we had to include several UnGooglable examples of “chthonic babble” - strange but redolent phrases that imply meaning but are strange, inhuman, not part of our world.

It’s one of our favourite ideas. Wondered where the term originated.

Just Googled it. It doesn’t exist.

Since writing this, I have lost exactly one follower. Which no doubt serves me right.

I currently have one follower for every day of the year. I will be visiting you all individually over the coming twelve months…

Me too – then I realised I wasn’t sure if he was joking. 😕

I’ve had promising results from Ecosia.

Intriguing knob, if you don’t mind my saying so.

TARGET ACQUIRED. In just shy of 24 hours!!! I am taking a moment, then on to the stretch goals...

Annie Scrawl #penfilms

What I'd like to see is some banging together of heads. Some insistence that reality is real and not negotiable, that humans are violent apes with easily hacked psyches, and that no dream worth its salt can stand without carefully understood and engineered foundations. H. Sapiens, Know Thyself.