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The pyramid scheme publishers Unbound [now Boundless] have finally gone live with their new website so take this opportunity to find out what they've done with all of your pledged money.

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

THREAD. Last year, the publisher of my most recent books, Unbound, stopped paying its authors money contractually owed for earned royalties and advances. Again and again, we were promised, falsely, that the money would soon be with us...

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

My gut feeling is that the best way to respond to a hideously ungenerous act - e.g. a publisher who still owes you a five figure sum and who has taken a much bigger sum from your readers and, in its new guise, is refusing to refund it - is not with a spiteful one but a generous one. Hence: this.

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

#Boundless (with two former #Unbound managers in their senior team) has not refunded Unbound pledge money or paid authors money already earned. Something to consider before signing with Boundless. However much you want to get published, however great a company seems, this kind of mess can happen.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Editor note in my book edit: "there's a lot of calling characters dickheads, wankers and gits in this section. Might be good to tone it down a bit.' You can take the bloke out of The North...

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

Does anyone actually do anything between Xmas a new year? How? If I know a delivery is coming at 4pm, I hyper fixate can't do anything productive at all until it shows up. It's kind of like that with new Year for me 😅

submitted 118 days ago • 2 comments

I tried to replicate my rat (pictured) Truffle Oil M.D.'s look of forlorn confusion he uses so often. Think I smashed it tbh

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

Question: What was the weird word you used at primary school when someone was about to get in trouble? We had "Ommers", with the "er" sound made longer depending on how much the kid had fuked up. I grew up in North Yorkshire. Interested to hear if it's different in other parts of the UK <3

submitted 132 days ago • 4 comments

I've been considering a SFW onlyfans where I can be candid, but I think my rat Tagliatelle needs to make a thirst trap one. Look at how majestic and dreamy he is. Absolute heartbreaker. Utter leather jacket of a rat.

submitted 134 days ago • 8 comments

Adopted this rabbit 2 years ago. @nostalgianerd.com took her while I was recovering from illness...and accidentally ended up adopting her. She's currently fuming at him because he won't give her another apple slice. This is a bun strop. It's cute when it's happening to someone else, isn't it 🥰

submitted 137 days ago • 3 comments

In all seriousness, why does anyone drink tequila? It's like a tree threw up.

submitted 139 days ago • 2 comments

Just spent four hours putting up sound panels because the main troubleshooting consideration had to be "can a rat climb up this and pull it down/stash in it/make a gross wall nest" and as it turns out the answer is usually "yes."

submitted 141 days ago • 3 comments

This is my gubbins cupboard. Can you spot the escaped criminal.

submitted 143 days ago • 7 comments

She is pointy.

submitted 145 days ago • 2 comments

Remember these sweets? Body Parts. My mum used to get them for my brother and I for after dinner snacks. Around the same time they released some shaped like bugs that released sugar juice when bitten into, loved them. Can't stomach the idea of that now. It's almost like kids are psychopaths.

submitted 146 days ago • 2 comments

I've started writing another show to take to Fringe next year. Actually, two of them. Liquorice has been helping by sitting on my shoulder and boggling.