Don’t worry. It’s complicated for those working at the passport office as well.

Just to confirm that I'll be taking part in the Crossing the Tees Local Author Showcase on Monday 29 June 6.30pm at Middlesbrough Central Library.
Tickets available from next week.

Madeleines are more shell-shaped. These look more like those Italian pastries - the breasts of Saint Agatha.

Page 100 comp | Louise Walters

www.louisewaltersbooks.co.uk/page-100-com... The latest rejection. My page 100 wasn't shortlisted.

And another sale.
4 USA
1 Australia
1 Brazil

Latest 4 star rating.

The month so far.
A working-class writer is something to be.
#booksky

The peripatetic snooker players. Stockton-on-Tees.

Stamer needs to resign. He won't, of course.

New tip.
No more excuses.
#snooker

Today's poem.
#booksky
#poetry

New snooker venue with a Star table.

Got this big bastard today.
If you’re poor and working class and can’t afford to buy new books, libraries are the answer. After all I pay plenty of council tax so it’s only right they should get it for me.

Another milestone within reach.
#booksky #trakl #poetry #translation

Two sales now this month.
Every little helps.
#booksky

Jarvie age four finding some chocolate eggs and a Milka bar in Oma’s garden in Dusseldorf.
Easter Bunny my arse. You can’t fool me, mum. You left them there.

The AI has replied.
What fun.

Hours of fun, I tell you, trolling these wankers.
#booksky #parasites #tiktok

Booking.com tells me that the cost of a flight and hotel accommodation would be an additional £2000.

Fucking Iceland? I'd want an appearance by Bjork if I was shelling out three grand.
If there's one thing that I hate it's these parasitical hobbyists.

I play the joke every year, so watch out for April 1 2027.
All you need to know is that no literary agent would ever represent me, hence the joke.

Always nice to get the first sale of the new month.
Courtesy of Brazil.
#booksky #writing #trakl #poetry

Haha. I cocked up the name. I did originally have Rolf Lapio but changed it for a female name which I got wrong!
Still, the joke is that no literary agent would ever represent me.
I like to play this April Fool every year so watch out next time!

This is, of course an April Fool.
I had a change of heart and actually cocked up the name of the literary agent as I was going to run with Rolf Lapio.
Never change horses mid race!
But the joke's the same. Claus Narr is a famous German jester, and he also appears in Schoenberg's Gurrelieder.

That's chapters 1-30 printed off.
Only 15 more to go.
Always keep a hard copy, folks.
#booksky #writing

Lauri has said and I quote: “it’s exciting to be working with another Marxist writer like Sally Rooney.”
As a communist whose writing is imbued with the class struggle, I’m grateful for such comradely support.

Amazing news. I can now confirm that Lauri Papolf of the Claus Narr Literary Agency has agreed to represent me as an author.

It’s been a long, hard journey but now I’ve finally attained my goal.

#booksky #writing

Tees Valley Writing Conference 2026 - New Writing North Our popular Writing Conference is coming to the Tees Valley for the first time! The writing conference is an event...

newwritingnorth.com/event/tees-v... For the minted middle-class writer. Not for me, obviously.

Latest sales figures for my Trakl translation Autumnal Elegies.
A working-class translator is something to be.
#booksky #translation #trakl #workingclass

Given that literary agents want “the same, but different” AI can churn out a novel a week to satisfy that demand.
I’m not sure many readers are actually bothered about connecting with authors.
It’s only a matter of time before AI wins the Booker Prize.