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Currently looking for work as a freelance proofreader and copyeditor. I have extensive experience as a writing tutor & peer reviewer & can apply my skills to proofreading nonfiction & academic writing as well as fiction. If you or someone you know needs a proofreader for their work, feel free to DM.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I like my job. Except when I have to proof a document that desperately needs a heavy edit but I’ve only been hired to proof it. This shouldn’t go out into the world in this state but there’s not much I can do except flag it with the publisher

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Feel more like an end-of-days high street preacher every day. Giving up clean water for tech that’s ruining our minds and the planet! Isn’t that a mad thing to do?? Doesn’t anyone think that’s a bad idea?? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

honestly have noticed Ecosia getting better and better, and suggest using it as your search engine over google

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

I've started a Substack where I interview neurodivergent authors about their writing, reading & advice to aspiring writers! It was a pleasure this week to speak to @rachelcdailey.bsky.social about her work, tips and books she loves neurodivergentnotesonwriting.substack.com/p/i-wanted-t... #BookSky

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Currently reading this. Perks of working in an architecture bookshop. And it’s very good so far

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

So I now live a street away from where Robert Louis Stevenson grew up and this is very exciting for various versions of little me. Little me who loved books. Little me who loved pirates. Little me who wanted to be a writer. Little me whose fav poem was by RLS

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 22 days ago • 4418 comments

There is no need to spend your life fighting gravity - as in, trying to keep from aging. Aging is victory. Learn to cook something cheap that feeds a crowd, and share it. Treat yourself like someone you love, and treat other people the same way.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Radical publishing notion, right here: if your publishers are making a living from publishing and selling your books, then you, the author, should be making a living from writing them.

submitted 23 days ago • 39 comments

Sleepy

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Always be a little kinder than is necessary

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

February is #ReadIndies month - read books from small independent publishers. So… here’s a few to follow: @renardpress.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social @charcopress.com @northodoxpress.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

Officially moved from Glasgow to Edinburgh today. I don’t remember it being this surreal last time I moved cities

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis

submitted 27 days ago • 84 comments

Great to see momentum continuing to grow for introducing the #NaturalHistory GCSE - it just needs green light from government! A brilliant way to help restore nature, improve young people’s physical & mental health & fill the green skills gap.

submitted 28 days ago • 13 comments

I have broken the syntax that was in the poems and from which you were probably hoping for polish Forgive me they were discourteous so sweet and so unprofessional

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Yes #BookSky #BeckyChambers

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

submitted 29 days ago • 694 comments

Hey while megaretailers profiting one of the richest men in world are out here doing this shit www.advocate.com/news/amazon-... maybe it's a fun time to switch to @librofm.bsky.social for audiobooks. Select the indie bookstore you'd like to support, listen away. Comp prices to aforementioned jerks

submitted 30 days ago • 139 comments

I know books are cheaper and hand delivered to your door step if you order on Amazon. I know. I understand times are rough and things are expensive. I just ask you please consider once in a while to go to a local bookstore. Or visit a library. They'll even order books for you. Please I beg of you.

submitted 30 days ago • 61 comments

If true, what Labour front bench is doing is unforgivable. The #CANBill is essential & has backing of huge number of experts, scientists, unions & enjoys cross-party support. If backbench Labour MPs ever consider rebelling against leadership on anything, let it be this - a liveable future for all 👇

submitted 30 days ago • 102 comments

There is a map of any power cuts in Scotland here (none in Edinburgh yet...) powertrack.ssen.co.uk/powertrack#Q...

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

For all my #BookSky friends that are trying to move away from the Bezos infrastructure, just a reminder that Goodreads is owned by him through Nash Holdings. Clicks are currency friends @thestorygraph.com is a Black Woman founded company www.womenwhocode.com/blog/world-b...

submitted 30 days ago • 115 comments

You’re a threat to society and the moral fabric of western civilisation so hold your chin up high and act like it

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

A good post-therapy afternoon involves a sunny walk to a garden, a wee loch and then a pub. Reading A Flat Place by @noreenmasud.bsky.social which I was telling my therapist all about earlier. Trying to treat this limbo week before I move as a little holiday and fill it with nice (but cheap) things

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Delighted to say that my first interview on my new substack interviewing neurodivergent writers is with none other than @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social - Lucy's thoughts are generous and illuminating both us a writer and publishing professional tinyurl.com/3rrm6hw2

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

we are the adaptation no oppressor can imagine … we are building our stamina we dream of the real world we carry god, and see god, in each of our faces your holiness is not too heavy, not for me adriennemareebrown.net/2025/01/20/i...

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

Ok #booksky, let’s talk. 👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books. 👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!

submitted 35 days ago • 901 comments

Happy #Caturday

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes, having editor-brain is a curse when you’re just trying to read for fun.

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

I wish we could cultivate a culture where people get excited about and share the new skills they've learned more than the new stuff they've bought.

submitted 36 days ago • 522 comments

thats ok im already fluent in anxiety

submitted 37 days ago • 75 comments

You don't know what any of your favorite authors are like in real life unless you live with them. Read what you enjoy, avoid authors who have earned your personal disdain if you wish, but please do not make lists of "the good ones." You do not know.

submitted 38 days ago • 13 comments

This is perhaps a bit like trying to uninvent the bloody crossbow, but if you're concerned by the government's march towards ceding all our creative endeavours to the maw of training generative AI, have a look at this and write to your MP. www.creativerightsinai.co.uk?fbclid=IwY2x...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

I've started a Substack to celebrate neurodivergent writers' work, and to interview them about their craft and writing advice. I'm so excited about the interviews I've got lined up (incl. two hugely anticipated 2025 debut writers!) and would love it if you could share! tinyurl.com/32zwezsc

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

It's disappointing that people are doing this, especially when such a huge part of this story is that Gaiman's abuse was largely facilitated by being constantly positioned by the media & wider institutional structures of fandom as one of the Good Ones.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments