Abbie Headon (she/her)
@abbieheadon.bsky.social
🇮🇪🇬🇧 Free-range editor and writer. Editor-at-Large, Calon Books. Campus Community Manager, BookMachine. Bookseller Rising Star. FRSA. #TransLivesMatter
So much fun chatting with Russell Howard on his Five Brilliant Things podcast. Available now where you get your podcasts.
Ford Prefect on Thursdays - Hitchhiker's Guide
Alt: Arthur Dent from the original BBC series of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy saying “It must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
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Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w agoYou suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
Not only was Adrian one of the most forward thinking people in publishing, he was also incredibly kind and funny. Honoured to have called him a friend. www.independentpublishersguild.com/IPG/Latest/B...
Remembering Adrian Driscoll
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All UK self-employed people: you need to read this government proposal, and respond to it. They're looking to shake up self-employed tax to make it monthly, and potentially take it, based on their forecasts, from the PAYE from any salaried employment you have! www.gov.uk/government/c...
Timely Payments in Income Tax Self Assessment (ITSA)
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Daybreak in the wreck of Dogger. Gulls drifting over the slowly rising sea. Seals hauled out on sandbanks, bleached ribs of stranded whales. Dunlin and knot, swarming the mudflats, armies of silt-spearing godwit and whaup. 'Eely' Steve Ely £2 off until 24 July longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
I love every single Impeccable Table Manners column but this one literally has it all: ✅ Dangermouse reference ✅ personal grudge against negronis ✅ absolutely in-your-face totally appropriate mid-column book promotion Marks out of 10: 12
Justin Myers@theguyliner.bsky.social · 3w agoIn the latest Guardian Blind Date: oh. Oh no. Don't do that. Nor that. Oh. My review:
Ughhhhhh. If you are self-employed and don't want yet more governmental admin, it's time to tell them:
Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 3w agoSelf-employed people! Sorry to put a downer on your Sunday, but in case you'd not seen, the Government wants us to pay our tax *monthly* like we're employees or something With the World Cup and all the politics, I'd missed the consultation they put out last month, which is here: 1/
Boaty McBoatface hits different after the sinking of the Belgrano
No they had a thing to decide this in 1982 and they weren’t
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 3w agoomg Argentina brought out a "THE FALKLANDS ARE ARGENTINE" banner after the win
also tbf let's remember a major theme of modern british fantasy is that you can never go home again
So it’s viva España from now on, then. 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸
This 22-man wrestling match seems to be going well.
The game hasn’t even started yet and I’ve just had to separate these two… - Michael
FIFA have confirmed Balogun’s suspension has been lifted and he *will* be allowed to stand in the Clacton by election
Farage to announce the pub date of the last Game of Thrones novel
At this rate we’ll be into our first hydration break before Farage even starts talking
Someone at Reform is trying to remember which button to press to go live. Everyone is shouting. Big Nige is sitting on a throne made of £5 million in bundled tenners.
Ok I have an idea. You ask me a question. Any question you like. I chug 500 mL of water and then tell you you’re very pretty before I make up a random answer, untethered from reality. In return you give me a billion dollars AND I’ll come to your house and leave the fridge door open.
Wow is football always this exciting
Lazy Cat Plays with Ball Toy
Alt: A cat lazily playing with a ball game
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PRO TIPS FROM ME, A LARGE INSECT 1. Do not be intimidated by the blank page 2. New notebook? Open to blank page 3. Write something meaningful on it 4. Now it is no longer blank 5. Go finish your novel
Taylor & Francis Research@tandfresearch.bsky.social · 2mo agoEvery writer you admire once stared at a blank page feeling exactly how you feel right now. And they kept going.
You can read the first chapter of my debut fantasy novel here! Thank you @reactorsff.bsky.social ! 🏔️🦌♥️
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 2mo agoAinsworth Gladsly isn't interested in adventuring, but he IS invested in research. There's no better thesis than exploring where no traveler has gone before... We're excited to share an excerpt from Chiara Bullen's cozy fantasy The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance!
