This has got to be the worst thing she has ever written...all ending in a beg of course. Was Lord Jesus Christ her girlfriend at this time?Her first agent allegedly stole several years of royalties from her first two books. She talks about it here but I strongly recommend Ctrl+F for "agent" because this is, even by Jack standards, unreadably self-pitying:
Poverty lingers a septic wound, choleric, stenching, bursting rancid all over your Sunday best.
You jest at scars, that never felt a wound, I muttered to my phone screen as an avatar of a sneering man stared back, his grainy face positioned just to the left of his barbed jab about why a ‘best…cookingonabootstrap.com
ETA: I don't like to go into conspiracy theories but it's worth noting that she had already left her first agent (the alleged thief) by the time her second book came out. Could be a contractual thing but always struck me as odd that this person stole her royalties from a book she had published while represented by someone else.
NoCheap weekend in Paris? Is that possible ?
It's a really interesting book. The film is fantastic too.when I was about 12 I read a book called Christiana F and it was a true story about a girl living in Germany, she got on to heroin along with her boyfriend as a young teen and one day she came home got caught him selling himself to an old man to fund his habit when this spured her on to becoming clean. The harrowing life they had on drugs and the in depth experience she wrote about going cold turkey really made an impression in me as a young teen.
Oh my good lord I couldn't even get past the first sentence holy shit. I picture her performing this in an overwrought Shakespearean styleHer first agent allegedly stole several years of royalties from her first two books. She talks about it here but I strongly recommend Ctrl+F for "agent" because this is, even by Jack standards, unreadably self-pitying:
Poverty lingers a septic wound, choleric, stenching, bursting rancid all over your Sunday best.
You jest at scars, that never felt a wound, I muttered to my phone screen as an avatar of a sneering man stared back, his grainy face positioned just to the left of his barbed jab about why a ‘best…cookingonabootstrap.com
ETA: I don't like to go into conspiracy theories but it's worth noting that she had already left her first agent (the alleged thief) by the time her second book came out. Could be a contractual thing but always struck me as odd that this person stole her royalties from a book she had published while represented by someone else.
OT: This reminds me of when I was around that age in school and we had to do a creative writing task. It was something or other to do with water but, the point being, I used the phrase '...and if that doesn't float your boat...' as some kind of transition in my writing. The teacher was aghast but, to this day, I still don't think it was that bad! My mum still tells the story of my reception teacher asking me how I felt at the end of my first school day with me replying 'I'm knackered!' Lord only knows what the teachers at the school must have thought of meThis reminds me of a recent experience during homeschool for my youngest.
he used the word seduce in the correct context but the teacher decided to change it to entice as seduce wasn’t appropriate for school / his age (he’s 9 year 5 )
Good morning to this post from January 2019. I’m doom scrolling because I’m trapped on the sofa with baby on me.
If she thought it was chaotic him being off school for two days pre-Covid then my goodness she had no idea what was about to hit her!
Which was it Jack? Was it just a ‘tactical vom’ or was he a ‘sick patient’ that needed carried around?
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From Potatoes:Did she ever follow up the missing royalties? With 100% success rate in legal challenges, I would have though she would have no problem taking her former agent to court.
Her lack of any further comment on the subject is rather odd. It is almost as if she was mistaken with her assumption that she was owed in the region of 50K.
I am damned sure that if anyone owed me 50K I couldn't afford to just forget about it.
when I was about 12 I read a book called Christiana F and it was a true story about a girl living in Germany, she got on to heroin along with her boyfriend as a young teen and one day she came home got caught him selling himself to an old man to fund his habit when this spured her on to becoming clean. The harrowing life they had on drugs and the in depth experience she wrote about going cold turkey really made an impression in me as a young teen.
Weird to me, someone that’s had two 8-year-olds. When was this from, because in one of her lives last week she said his primary doesn’t have a kitchen?I don't have kids so happy to be corrected by frauen with more experience in this area but, but it seems to me really unlikely that an 8- year old child would overeat to the extent of making themselves sick. Or if they did it would be a worrying indication of some wider issue with food or an ED? When I was sick when I was younger it was always due to a virus or something.. I was never sick from overeating and I don't remember that happening to anyone I knew. Being sick at school would be really embarrassing as other kids would be likely to take the piss, so it seems unlikely that he would do a 'tactical vom'..it's not like he was a teenager who had drunk too much cheap vodka but didn't want to end their night out, which is the circumstance where that phrase is more commonly used. I hate to think that he was genuinely ill and got zero sympathy or got treated like a naughty boy or a massive inconvenience.
She's a wannabe novelist chopping and changing her imagined masterpiece, never quite satisfied enough to put the pen down...The timeline of this incident is very questionable.
Oh I think someone from here could do a fantastic job. Could be a tattle collab with profits to charities in a transparent wayI hope when Jack is dusty (in restaurant parlance) no one carries on her body of work.
Are you me? I remember being told off for saying I was knackered at primary schoolOT: This reminds me of when I was around that age in school and we had to do a creative writing task. It was something or other to do with water but, the point being, I used the phrase '...and if that doesn't float your boat...' as some kind of transition in my writing. The teacher was aghast but, to this day, I still don't think it was that bad! My mum still tells the story of my reception teacher asking me how I felt at the end of my first school day with me replying 'I'm knackered!' Lord only knows what the teachers at the school must have thought of me
I couldn't even finish that diatribe of self pity. I'm a faithful grunka coming late to this party but even I have my limits.Her first agent allegedly stole several years of royalties from her first two books. She talks about it here but I strongly recommend Ctrl+F for "agent" because this is, even by Jack standards, unreadably self-pitying:
Poverty lingers a septic wound, choleric, stenching, bursting rancid all over your Sunday best.
You jest at scars, that never felt a wound, I muttered to my phone screen as an avatar of a sneering man stared back, his grainy face positioned just to the left of his barbed jab about why a ‘best…cookingonabootstrap.com
ETA: I don't like to go into conspiracy theories but it's worth noting that she had already left her first agent (the alleged thief) by the time her second book came out. Could be a contractual thing but always struck me as odd that this person stole her royalties from a book she had published while represented by someone else.
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