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LJ Lawless Is Keeping Her Social Distance!
lj_lawless
I really like this thread! For fellow compulsive book-hoarders, I like buying craft books used (I like other people's markups in them lol) and for reading in my genre I
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K.B. Wagers (they/them)
kbwagers
*looks at my life over the last four years and laughs/cries*Buckle in, kiddos. Let me tell you a story about how past me was unreasonably optimistic.https://twitter.com/kate_rakestraw/status/1309243632982073350 I'd have used different
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Marie Léger-St-Jean
Marie_LSJ
I've been having an interesting email exchange with @ivozandhuis, whom I met at the Atlas of digitized newspapers workshop run by @EmilyJLB and @mhbeals a few weeks back.I think I've
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#amquerying help
AmqueryingH
1/ An #amquerying thread about stubbornness, and in defense of #litagents.A few years ago when I was still querying, I was at an author roundtable talk and an agent said
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Ishta Mercurio 🏳️🌈
IshtaWrites
Okay, writers. Let’s talk querying.You should always—ALWAYS—ask clients of an agent what that agent is like to work with.I find “do you like your agent?” to be an unhelpful question,
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Anna Sproul-Latimer
annasproul
Hi! I just wrote an email to a prospective author about an understandable tactical error this person had made in the querying process. Because it's important that other authors not
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Mactroll
mactroll
Let's talk attestation and boxes and what that means for generating keys on an iOS device.For a while folks, myself included, have been really interested in getting Apple to provide
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Christian DiCanio
ctdicanio
I spent some time today trying to see what phoneticians are doing in reporting statistical effects using Bayesian analysis. Two perennial questions: (1) do I report just my stats; or
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Rand Fishkin
randfish
A search for "Seattle" is a superb example of how Google's algorithm works right now.- Does the most relevant content rank? No.- The most well-linked-to? No.- The best optimized? No.-
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The "incursion" understander
LamentablyAwake
Let’s be clear, Starmer’s Labour should do very well today.1. They’re going up against a Tory government that messed up completely and repeatedly leading to 10s of thousands of unnecessary
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Paige Feldman
pfeld
KNOW YOUR WORTH. A thread.I was recently asked to interview for a writing job at a small YouTube channel with decent animation on their content, but poorly written stories. They
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Andrew Glencross
A_Glencross
Like @jonworth I’m not impressed with this piece on post-Brexit EU bu UK constitutional guru Vernon Bogdanor. A thread on one particular aspect of his argumenthttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/25/brexit-was-no-aberration-
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Joel Baden
JoelBaden
Having reached the end of the Abraham cycle, it's time for another break to compile the threads on #Genesis up to this point. Complete your collection today!Here's the first set,
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Emily Thiede
ethiedee
*THREAD*Not sure who needs to hear this, but grace, humility, and kindness are REALLY helpful in publishing! Yes, this industry is hard, and venting (discreetly) is healthy, but if you
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Alex von Tunzelmann
alexvtunzelmann
Oh, I love this. To accompany “And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.” Sometimes attributed to Plutarch; actually
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Dave Remy
daveremy
Most people who learn about Event Sourcing learn it as an application design pattern, which of course it is. However, IMO, the big WHY for Event Sourcing is the Event
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