I also wish that more people understood that, for kids, a step parent is a parent, even if they say otherwise. A stepmother who is intolerant of you is psychologically the same as a father who is intolerant of you. Little kids aren't able to emotionally separate that.
I am very wary of my five-year-old stepdaughter. Am I a bad person? | Leading questions www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
If you don't want children, you should not become a step parent. However much you love your partner, if they come with kids you don't want, they are wrong for you.
Our FIFTH Substack is now live! This highly informative piece is not one to miss! 🥰🥳
read it here: thenotsosecretagents.substack.com/p/how-to-fin...
Stop calling everything a one pan recipe! It's not one pan if I need to cook rice and a vegetable separately to make it a full meal!
congratulations Sue!! so pleased for you!
I'm setting off for Cambridge this week, going to spend a couple of days in some archives for my new project, then off to the University Press bookshop on Thursday evening to talk about Literature for the People! A few seats left? Where are you, Cambridge #booksky People?
Please send!
Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn We get it poets: things are like other things
Yes anywhere in the world!
Sorry, this tweet is referring to unpublished books - I'm a literary agent!
I've read it! But as an agent I'm looking for unpublished books
I want a love story with a long timespan - lovers coming together against all odds, fated romance, something that keeps me hoping until the very last page #mswl
I'd love a mystery, with a sleuth who is a fish out of water, or who gets pulled into investigating against their will #mswl
Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉
This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!
Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106
Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...
On the hunt for #darkacademia novels, particularly those that are a bit more upmarket and less magical - The Secret History vibes. If you have a crime novel set in a university, boarding school, library - it might be for me. #mswl
boosting this for @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social #mswl day! I will post a few other specific wants throughout the day and you can find more info here:
www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-age...
with our submission guidelines here:
www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-sub...
I live a perfectly commutable distance from central London. I had to get there before 9 for a job recently, train being the only option.
It cost me £100.
I just said to a friend I feel like human authors will end up like organic veg in the next few years.
A few will pay more for something ethically sourced, environmentally friendly, that didn’t kill bees and that still contains the human spirit.
They’re putting my bill up by £19 a MONTH and you can’t shop around for water companies so we just have to lump it. Nationalise now!!!
If we're talking about blurbing books again, can we agree that some people blurb only books they like, regardless of whether they know the author?
The assumption that it's all just backscratching is pretty dismissive of the people who try to do this unpaid labour with some integrity, imho.
Unsolicited writing advice, no. #1616:
In a world in which the average writer earns only £7000 a year, be sure why you want to do this. If it's to make a fortune, or hang out with famous people, or to be famous yourself, forget it. It isn't a lottery. It's a slog. Only joy makes it worthwhile.
what's particularly bonkers is the sheer expense, political effort, complicated negotiations and pain for exporters - for a result which the public have now largely disowned
Inside every one of us is two wolves etc etc
My tiktok fyp is wall to wall Robbie Williams and Alexander from Traitors 😭 I did this to myself
The thing that gets me about AI is if you want to get an answer to something that is sometimes right and sometimes bizarre or simply disastrously wrong, you can just ask me. That’s how I answer questions
How wonderful to see not one but TWO of our fabulous authors as judges for the #Nibbies! We are so proud of both @leenanorms.bsky.social and RAMZEE 🥰
Workers are the big unspoken tension in Reeves' speech, both in a 'uh, where are you getting these workers from?' (starts a row with the Home Office) and 'uh, what terms are you employing them under?' (starts a row over workers' rights legislation with practically everybody in the Labour party).
Labour MPs who follow me on here — I know you’re there! — please do push for this change of 6 weeks pat leave at 90% of pay. And please also push for an increase in statutory maternity pay — to minimum wage! — and for pay to cover the full 12 months of leave.
Meanwhile in the UK it's "I absolutely loved this book! Unfortunately the sales team have said they will shoot me if I buy another debut 🥲"
