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Literary agent @ Liza Dawson Associates, prison abolitionist, public theologian
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Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons (Fortress, forthcoming in 2026)
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!!!
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Argo, too
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Right, it’s the logistics. I would take the bus near me with kids if I could just hop on and off!
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With thanks to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social who have shaped my thinking on care!
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Yes
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Plus by the time mss are ready to send out to UK, sometimes the UK list for that pub season is already full, etc. Just gets tricky!
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It’s actually usually US that needs longer lead times to print, but combination of long production timelines plus slow response times seems to make it harder to sync up now than it used to be
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Mostly just easier to get out of sync. Eg if I sell a book to a US pub then they go to UK to sublicense, takes a few months to read/get responses, after which UK pubs may no longer have time to schedule it for simultaneous…
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I have a sense that this is partly due to increasing timelines for production and printing — I have found recently that except for publishers that do joint US/UK editions in house (Orbit, Harper, etc) it can be tricky to sell US books into the UK market because the timelines don’t line up
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❤️🙏🏻
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(He was an academic who couldn’t get a university job because he was Jewish so he switched to opera)
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My Jewish grandfather who got out of Austria in 1937-8 was definitely lucky (he left on an international opera tour in 37 and just didn’t go back after the Anschluss), and I think also privileged in that his family was in Vienna and relatively wealthy which let him be working internationally
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This is also the problem with My Little Pony: The Next Generation. (Lol, sorry!)
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2) WEARING THE LION by @wiswell.bsky.social, which interprets the myth of Herakles as a story of found family, trauma healing, and accountability www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773374...
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❤️ I really appreciate you both
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Wait you LISTEN to the sermons your supply clergy preach?!
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Hmm. Sorry
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So I think you’re getting at why I insist that universalism NOT be purgatorial per se, but instead based on other understandings of accountability and divine solidarity with humanity
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Here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...?
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Yes!! Small but steady money for everyone is a good business model!
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(Yes, authors should make more than that. But I’d prefer more books sold at $10k-20k advance with the possibility of ongoing royalties after than the current difficulty of selling solidly genre books via Big 5 for midsize genre audiences)
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Among other problems, I really think this is leaving money on the table! These books would be published and consistently make profit!
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This is all in line with what I’ve been complaining about recently, publishers giving up on midlist genre books which will make small but consistent profitable sales (lots of books used to sell for $10k advance, sell 10k copies, everyone makes $…) in order to chase only big books and trends
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Also he read me Lord of the Rings!! lol. SFF!
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Ok I’m definitely wrong then!
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It’s because lefties buy the ones from Costco instead (Vitamix forever)
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The default has to be freedom while the process plays out. The default has to be no military troops on our streets while courts decide if it’s legal or not. That’s never been how the system works, though.
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As long as people think it’s happening to “criminals”