There’s a real gap in the market for crime novels
Jack Monroe #335 Boob, I guess
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I work in a different type of publishing but the bottom line is how much money is it going to make? Not how good is it and once a publisher has commissioned something, they’ll defend it to the hilt. Basically, how many sales can we make trumps everything.
People aren’t rattled, Jack, it’s just embarrassingly tit.
I would be surprised if Jacks last few books made money. She is constantly giving them away and I think the train wreck that was Veganuary and Linda McCartney will prevent any more ventures into veganism.
Jack said her publisher visited yesterday and today there is an extract from book number zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. That would imply that she will publish this one. I remember once Jack said she wanted to give every member of parliament a copy of her political book. I wonder if the same fans that bought her books for food banks will be encouraged to buy it for politicians and anyone else Jack can think of to flog a copy to.
Jack and her book deals remind me of Lord of War where Nicholas Cage buys his wife's paintings and keeps them in a storage container with all the other things he does not want seen.
Jack said her publisher visited yesterday and today there is an extract from book number zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. That would imply that she will publish this one. I remember once Jack said she wanted to give every member of parliament a copy of her political book. I wonder if the same fans that bought her books for food banks will be encouraged to buy it for politicians and anyone else Jack can think of to flog a copy to.
Jack and her book deals remind me of Lord of War where Nicholas Cage buys his wife's paintings and keeps them in a storage container with all the other things he does not want seen.
I'm rattled by her almost-sociopathic glee in misfortune and trauma. I also have plenty of books about poverty and the way it is deliberately constructed and maintained. They are well-written books though, by people who aren't spitefully fucked up.
I’ve popped the 12 Steps behind a spoiler in case anyone hasn’t seen them.
I think the recognition of her behaviour is progress for Jack, especially when coupled with her admitting she had made a mistake with the seeds. It is progress not perfection so it definitely has to be acknowledged as a step (groan!) in the right direction.
All 12-Step Fellowships encourage “honesty in all our affairs” and I think one of the fundamentals of the process is to become more self-aware and be a better version of ourselves by leaving toxic and destructive behaviours in the past.
I genuinely hope she’s working through the Steps with a sponsor. And maybe the not showing off the shiny chip on Twitter is part of that (it’s not for me but there’s nothing wrong in doing that. Maybe they’re working at her entire relationship with social media. Like I say, progress not perfection
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"Only the very worst and most callous of human beings would deliberately inflict such grievous bodily harm on another."
Again, for the sake of clarity, was that your parents, Jack, or what you yourself did to your son? Because if you really were starving then one of those two has to be the truth.
Again, for the sake of clarity, was that your parents, Jack, or what you yourself did to your son? Because if you really were starving then one of those two has to be the truth.
She’s a proper Job’s comforter type isn’t she?
Did anyone manage to get through that badly overwritten bollocks? It really sucks of Jack having to meet a word quota
If this diatribe of ill-informed pointlessness ever gets published, which I doubt, it is destined to languish, sadly, gently, forlornly on shelves of well-meaning left-leaning book suppliers across the nation, situated in sad comradeship, and nestling woefully, gently, sadly next to the book by that penny dreadful woman. The book that gave Penny ptsd because reviews were tit.
It will not be a surprise best seller, It will not be a talking point at dinner parties, It will not make the display tables in Foyles or Waterstones, It will end up lounging damply in soggy cardboard boxes in the shifty bungalow's garage as Jack sporadically makes attempts to offload them.
She's copying from her child's citizenship homework. Keep an eye out for her hot take on The Chartists and Tom Payne
Whoever this squig is, they are a BOSS.
She's one of those people who have everything pre-prepared to nonchalantly pull out of their arse, as if, oh, I just thought this up...
This is the thing. Everyone knows poverty is awful. From the most right wing, free market Thatcherite to the most dyed in the wool communist. Jack's endless death wank adds nothing to the debate.
Why are there only ever dregs in her fridge? I beg, for once just cook something on the same day of your performative £20 shop, so a recipe can start with 'bung a bunch of fresh veg into a cold pan and drizzle with oil'.
She can only afford one apostrophe. You wouldn't understand, as you are not POOR.
Oh, Golden Age British crime fiction is a joy. Also some of the stuff written during WW2, such an insight into what the war was like for people on the home front. But that was a totally different era and I see it in a very different light to today's 'cosy crime' genre, which makes me faintly nauseous.
Death wank, strap on beak, nightmeat......she's a bleeping cenobite!
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The David Brent of Poverty
The David Brent of Poverty
'Anyone who is familiar with my work will know that I genuinely love food'
(I'm not reading the rest, dear hearts, I'm sure it's all bollocks sausages)
(I'm not reading the rest, dear hearts, I'm sure it's all bollocks sausages)
It's PLR charts Jack... No idea what charts you're referring to!
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