BUT, BUT reading is your hobby!!
BUT, BUT reading is your hobby!!I can’t be bothered to grunk 20+ pages of jacky and her sad antics. Skipped to the present.
Mate. Reading is your hobby. What hope is there for the rest of us?!?I can’t be bothered to grunk 20+ pages of jacky and her sad antics. Skipped to the present.
Great minds @Minky McMoneypennyBUT, BUT reading is your hobby!!
Just read this article and realised that Jack SO IDENTIFIES with what he is saying and thinks that she is the same tortured genius, but in the same way that she is inspired by what he says in the article, she is also a victim to it too.
The last paragraphs of the article are:
"The government is cutting music programmes in schools and slashing Arts grants as gleefully as a morbidly American kid in Baskin Robbins. So if only to stick it to the man, isn't it worth fighting back in some small way? So write your damn book. Learn a Chopin prelude, get all Jackson Pollock with the kids, spend a few hours writing a Haiku. Do it because it counts even without the fanfare, the money, the fame and Heat photo-shoots that all our children now think they're now entitled to because Harry Styles has done it.
Charles Bukowski, hero of angsty teenagers the world over, instructs us to "find what you love and let it kill you". Suicide by creativity is something perhaps to aspire to in an age where more people know Katie Price better than the Emperor concerto."
Jack wants to have the fame of Harry Styles and Katie Price, that's why she does what she does, not because "it counts even without the fanfare, the money, the fame and Heat photo-shoots"
James Rhodes: 'Find what you love and let it kill you'
My life as a concert pianist can be frustrating, lonely, demoralising and exhausting. But is it worth it? Yes, without a shadow of a doubt, says James Rhodeswww.theguardian.com
And I had my (nick)name long before she changed hers!She's like a naughty little scamp of a child who annoys the other kids, then when they get a telling off, bursts into tears and thinks all is forgotten. Maybe she's just tired and needs a nap.
Which reminds me...I had my username MONTHS before she had her dinosaur snores!! She's all up in my Jurassic Niche!
Which would be lush but for the love of Jesuswill someone think of the 3 therapists she’s got on speed dial,She should just come back and talk to us here🤍
And I had my username well before she started serving upAnd I had my (nick)name long before she changed hers!
Watched a YouTube clip of him playing the piano and Jack’s own brand of one-handed virtuosity makes perfect sense now:James Rhodes is - and I speak from professional experience - an absolute prize twat and an abysmal pianist.
Another one who got loads of attention for mental health issues which raised his profile as a sub-par musician: can’t be arsed putting in the work to be a virtuoso but wants all the same plaudits as the greats.
He and Jack are cut from the exact same cloth.
I just went back to read the tweet again and I cannot stop laughing.thread title because it's too wonderful not to be immortalised:
Jack, could we have a quick chat?
Afternoon all, had a break, been on a grunk, back to sayShe literally made a reference to her "housemate" this afternoon!!! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills
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If it went well there will be a gushing reply “Thank you for the chat R, best agent ever”so, do we think the call went well then?
I would imagine the publishers are pretty pissed off, with a load of authors now ringing up asking for a pay hike: Author: “Jack Monroe said she gets £7k advance per book, why do I only get £6k but sell more books....”so, do we think the call went well then?
Wow she's going for the BB jugular.
Not quite. A book advance is an advance on royalties, so if the book sells 20k copies and her royalty is 50p a book, she gets nothing for the first 14k copies sold, those 50ps go to her publisher to repay the advance. She would only get another £3k from the last 6k copies to be sold and then it could be anything up to 6 months after the sales are made, because royalties are usually paid twice a year in arrears, plus any unsold copies returned from bookshops will probably be minused off it, depending on her contract. In other words, it's £10k in total, not £7k plus another £10k.2. Jack mentions the £7k advance for her book. She’s also mentioned she gets 50p per book in the past but forgot to mention that now. Let’s say last book sold 20k copies, that’s another £10k.
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