Please someone write an Australian romantasy where hilarious misunderstandings result from characters using the word 'mate' in different contexts; hijinks ensue

"Incredible book, could not put it down. Three stars"

Ah goodreads I love you

Dragon's Den investor: please for the love of god just tell us some of the money figures for your business

Me: who needs number when you've got ✨vibes✨

Don Draper stands in front of a pitch board which reads "what if the product was worse"

every silicon valley pitch meeting for the last 10 years

The Wedding People novel is just 17 conversations in a row and every single one of them is riveting

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

You ever listen to a song and you're like... I want to write a book that feels like that song

This online class looks so good. I highly recommend Jody's expertise - the feedback she's given me on my manuscripts has been a total gamechanger for my writing and revising.

To the woman sitting on this train and listening to an erotic audiobook at 2x speed WITHOUT HEADPHONES: the least you could do is start at the beginning so the rest of us are caught up

okay I just watched that clip like five times. amazing

EXPLORER 1: what should we name this new land we found

EXPLORER 2: how bout Newfoundland

EXPLORER 1: damn that’s fucken good

Tell me, marketers:
I buy one product from your website. You add me to a mailing list and proceed to send me at least one spam email per day. I quickly unsubscribe.

But so many websites do it, so this approach must work, right? Am I the one weirdo unsubscriber?

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Do you reckon the first time someone ended a story with "but then she woke up and it was all just a dream!" readers were like INCREDIBLE. What a clever twist

sorry mate, the lack of shade especially would have been shit

I love elections in this country. The ease, the vibe, the sausages. And the WA premier thanking his opponent in his victory speech, saying she's a decent person who's in politics for the right reasons & he's looking forward to working with her in parliament. Please, Australia, don't change. #wavotes

The cover of Mate by Ali Hazlewood, featuring a woman looking back at a wolf silhouetted against the full moon.

While I obviously understand the long history of paranormal romance, fanfic tropes, etc that Ali Hazlewood's new book is drawing on...

...as an Australian, the title is simply so funny.

If I was a billionaire I would not try to go to Mars or take over the government. I would spend all day secretly paying off people's mortgages and funding their charities and maxing out their gofundmes. I would have so much fun

I spotted a car cruise congregating in the parking lot as I left the shop with my groceries last night. Lots of mods, body kits, underglows etc. "I used to go on car cruises" I whispered as I climbed into my sensible sedan and switched on my Ann Patchett audiobook for my drive home into the suburbs

It's an absolute trip that yesterday was 4 February and by the end of next week we'll be more than halfway through the month

"degloving" 😱

Sometimes when I feel crap that I haven't gotten anything done, I write a nice To Do list and consider that my good achievement for the day ✅

This post is A+

Hands up everyone who zooms in on every picture posted with a bookshelf in the background to check out the books

I've now entered the plotting phase of vacillating every ten minutes between "hey you know what this story might be pretty great" and "GOOD LORD THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER", there is no in between

Oh gosh I can’t pick, I like them all so much, I’ll just take the whole lot!

-me, choosing my battles

Thank you, my life just got better

I've started plotting a new crime comedy and I'm that phase where any idea, no matter how outlandish, goes into the spreadsheet. A fire at a crematorium? In you pop. A plan to kill Grandma? LET'S GO

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

I bought four more books today and at this point I'm resigning myself* to the fact that their sole job is to look good on my shelf

* Not really resigning myself I actually love this