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Next thread title right there lol
of course go ahead I'm on this site pretty often
Sneak preview of future updates:
"After three months, I finally settled on a name for my protagonist: Jack Hedwards. Chef's kiss."
"Six month update: The book is called 'Jack to the Future' and is about a disillusioned graduate from fictional Burham University who travels back in time to right all the wrongs that caused him to be unfairly rejected from Oxford University. We love an underdog story."
"Fifteenth rejection from publishers. Apparently twelve puns per sentence is too many. They said it was especially inappropriate during the funeral scene. I said I was just trying to put the fun in funeral. They've stopped responding to my emails."
"Does anyone have any book ideas I can borrow? Asking for a friend."
I think he might be hoping to make some money out of the newsletter itself based on a quick scan on their website https://www.getrevue.co/
You can choose to set up a paid membership option (similar to substack).
You can choose to set up a paid membership option (similar to substack).
Yeah paid for/subscription newsletters is the latest business model som are using. I've noticed some tv historians do similar
MAKE IT STOP! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!
Can anyone remember if he's mentioned in a previous video whether he's writing another non-fiction book or plumping for fiction this time?
I can’t think of anything I would like to do less than follow his author journey.
I just don't see that he has anything at all to offer. He is two years out of university, and has spent that time navel gazing and poncing about London, and then Paris, failing to learn French, sort out a visa or even book a train correctly. Whatever novel he comes up with is going to be founded on his vast experience of doing Eff All.
'I am writing a book" - no you're not son, you're sitting in your mum's house avoiding the inevitable confrontation with real life. Although, I suspect he will be telling Oxford admissions (using the same pronunciation that John Malkovich uses in "Burn After Reading") that he's working on a "memoir".
(apologies for poor sound quality) But Jacques, like Osborne Cox, has always wanted to write a memoir...
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So bummed on this national strike day that Jack isn’t in Paris anymore 
Fiction, apparently. He put up a cart-before-horse tweet about "manifesting" seeing his "debut novel" in bookstores 2023, and his Goodreads answered questions had one about wanting to write fiction next.
It's another rehash of the time he wanted to study screenwriting, despite showing zero interest in film or writing previously. Like others have said, this is another grasp at straws to find something remotely booktubey to fill the life-as-content void post-graduation. The only fiction he's capable of writing is the frequent claims that he reads books to completion.
Expect an 'I read 750 books that teach fiction writing and here's what I learned...' video as Jack tries to teach himself to write fiction while writing his debut novel.
He might have enough brand traction to get a vanity book published, if the publishing industry still hasn't realised that subscriber numbers don't translate to book sales. But it'll be as bad as every other influencer vanity book. Expect either a ghostwritten pile of crap, or an amateurish handful of YA tropes that he got from back cover blurbs hurled together into a "loosely autobiographical" tale of a self-important English graduate twit with dad-joke Tourette's on a quest to discover himself in Paris. Kill me now.
The only influencer I can think of who's written fiction (excluding Zoella) is Joey Graceffa. Fiction is definitely not a common money spinner as I presume it's harder to promote.
Anyone else excited for a 'Erimentha Parker's To Do List' 2.0? 'Erimentha: Ticking off the Boxes'?
You’d think there’d have been a space for him to transition to “studytube but for young professionals”.
Stuff like ways to organise a busy working schedule, keeping an appropriate work-life balance, the perils of staying organised when working from home, even networking etc etc.
I suppose the biggest pitfall is that it would have had to involve him finding a job.
Stuff like ways to organise a busy working schedule, keeping an appropriate work-life balance, the perils of staying organised when working from home, even networking etc etc.
I suppose the biggest pitfall is that it would have had to involve him finding a job.
I think the logic is that it's easier to promote in many ways, since publishers are selling to an existing audience/fanbase who will (in theory) buy any old tit with the influencer's name on it. The influencer also has an established platform and social media base to promote from themselves, eliminating a lot of the publisher's marketing costs and responsibilities, versus the publisher having to do much more legwork themselves introducing a brand new, unknown author to the market.
It's definitely less of a thing than influencer non-fiction, but it still happens fairly prominently. Aside from Zoella, Carrie Hope Fletcher keeps getting things published. Booktubers like Christine Riccio and Sasha Alsberg got book deals that never would've happened without their existing social media brand.
The things they all have in common books is that the books were all completely terrible, even with the help of established author co-writers and uncredited ghostwriters.
What little I read of Christine Riccio's book was absolutely atrocious. It's filled with more shoe-horned pop-culture references than a dozen copies of Ready Player One. Babe Lozenge and Pilot Penn are actual names that she included for major characters, like she got stuck for ideas and started naming them after household objects.
Between her and Sasha Alsberg, they pretty much killed the market for booktuber fiction, since they were absolutely savaged critically and most people only bought them to experience the cringe.
I can't see Jack of all people being the one to break the trend. He'll either give up and lose interest after milking some money and content out of his "writing journey", or it'll be an unmitigated disaster of a book.
If his book ends up on NetGalley, I’ll take one for the team and read it
I'm eagerly awaiting the videos where Jack pulls a Jade and wanders around every Waterstones to find his book in the wild, making sure to rearrange all the displays off-camera to take his book from the bottom shelf of the discount shelf and place it proudly in the bestsellers section, or next to John Green's latest, or Barack Obama's biography.If his book ends up on NetGalley, I’ll take one for the team and read it
Will he call up every book shop at 9am and victoriously declare online that they've already sold out of copies when they tell him they never had any in stock and didn't bother ordering any, like Jade did? We can only hope!
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