I'm worried her parody is playing into her hands now. Such evil trolls, twisting her words to make a bigger joke of her than she ever could single handedly.
Jack Monroe #417 Hard to play the victim when you’ve ripped people off.
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What a loss to comedy it was when Jack decided to grift & cook awful shite instead.
See she’s also still sucking up to the blue ticks then-everyone else gets nada but she replies to anyone she thinks has clout.
See she’s also still sucking up to the blue ticks then-everyone else gets nada but she replies to anyone she thinks has clout.
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I've still got a bit of catching up to do but can I just say, Jack's the creator of the VBI?
Has she got a new career as the designer of the Emperor's new clothes, too?
Has she got a new career as the designer of the Emperor's new clothes, too?
But patreon discourage 1 squid subscriptions because of the fees, it probably costs them more than that to actually process it.
EVERYONE has made that joke before. FYI, taco snuggie for all your winter blackout needs.
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That particular squig has receipts. I wonder if they've done an interview/supplied information. They've been very consistent in facing down suspected Jack socks and flying monkeys and offered to show receipts again to them via zoom- which none of them want to take her up on. They also managed to get one months fees refunded by Patreon. It's not unlikely that journalist might do the story as a look at value for money from Patreon and use this story as an example of things that have gone wrong, without touching on the wider grift. I am not a lawyer but if you have someone with receipts who is willing to go on record and Jack gets the opportunity to comment, I can't see a major legal issue with it if it's just focused on the Patreon issue
With things like Patreon and Kickstarter, Jack really craps all over the people who use them as intended. I know someone who's done a few Kickstarter's now, and she fully documents every step of it for her supporters. And there's lots of really good Patreon accounts out there too. I agree Patreon seems terrible in terms of customer support when things go wrong though.I started subscribing to some musicians' Patreons during lockdown, and both of them have been excellent - private online concerts, transcriptions of songs, advance listens for new music etc. Quite unlike the smol pixie's
Jan 2023 Heckin big cancellation. Noted in my diary.
Yes, one angle that a media outlet could use is "why Patreon is a playground for scammers" - I.e. no recourse for ripped-off squigs - and use the smol pixie's antics as an illustrative example. Not a lawyer either, but that would be relatively safe legally because of the 100s of complaints on her Patreon page, along with Patreon's publicly posted terms of "service".
Patreon, Substack and even just Paypal tip jars are all valid ways to support creators and it's really frustrating that they've been brought into disrepute by grifters. I know some people on here take a more hardline view but as I've said before I just see it as online busking and provided people aren't being conned or sadfished I think it's a good thing. I do think there needs to be some form of regulation to allow people who have donated in the expectation they'd get perks to seek recourse when that doesn't happen and probably also to protect creators from malicious complaints.
Long time lurker, swooping in to correct the BIB because it's a common misconception. You do not have to pay back your advance if you don't earn out (the royalties earned from sales exceeds the amount of the advance).
Failing to earn out may impact future deals, especially if the advance was small, but a big advance doesn't need to earn out for the publisher to make a profit and to consider the book a success. Small advances may sometimes be negotiated against a higher royalty percentage (I believe Matt Haig did this), but larger advances secure the marketing support from the publisher. Publishing contracts often have "success clauses" too - so X% for the first AAA number of copies, Y% after that. So if, say, somebody purchased copies of their book to donate to charity, they would benefit not just from the royalties, but possibly also from the higher royalties they would earn after that.
You good ninnies may be interested to know cookery writers are usually responsible for paying for their own photography. Somebody mentioned 5K as a figure for an advance. While totally typical for fiction, it sounds a little low to me for a cookbook. I know this is an exciting fact, but it doesn't mean that's how JM's contract works because there are always exceptions. Nevertheless, it makes you think.
Carry on, Fraus. I appreciate all you do.
(Knowing how publishing works, I also have extreme side-eye for the housing benefit suspension after the first deal announcement. I strongly suspect with zero proof that she didn't inform the relevant people about her income - deals are often (but not always) signed long before the official announcement. The Society of Authors (the trade union) is a good source of advice for how to negotiate lump sum income and means tested benefit payments, as well as author taxes, which work differently than normal person taxes)
That tree pic ... Most people would say:"look at this tree, isn't it beautiful?"
Our Jack says.. "look at my photo, isn't it beautiful?"
Such a needy twit, even trying to steal a tree's thunder
Our Jack says.. "look at my photo, isn't it beautiful?"
Such a needy twit, even trying to steal a tree's thunder
This is really interesting, like many people I just assumed the advance might be recoverable. Would you know if the cookbook author would typically be responsible for arranging their own recipe testing too? If so, it might explain a lot about Jack's slops.
I am no longer in the UK, but we're advised to have 'cyclone kits'. Things like torches, extra batteries, a reasonable stock of tinned and ready to use dry goods, and bottled water. I'd imagine a similar kind of thing would be useful for any planned outages.
It sounds like a tough situation, but scaremongering won't help. We used to get very regular outages, sometimes for over 12 hours (they skimped on putting the power lines in when they built my suburb, but have fixed it in recent years) and it's not nice, but at least if you're aware it's going to happen, you can prepare somewhat for it.
She just needs one to bite, and then the Jack 1 Grift index is back! Or J1g to give it the official title
We had blackouts when I were a child, think the miners were on strike, was rescued several times by the fire brigade, having been in the lift when the power went off. We lived on the nineteenth floor. Going down was ok, but going up was another matter
Indeed.
I thought it was honey badger
I was looking for the first tweet - as I *think* it is one of the few times she passes any reference to the amount of patrons. Of course she thanks Nigella not the patrons and dismisses it as a small number.
I'd forgotten the second one. Nauseating and completely entitled at the same time.
Btw am I reading the second one right? She views subscription models as 'no-obligation'?
I'd forgotten the second one. Nauseating and completely entitled at the same time.
Btw am I reading the second one right? She views subscription models as 'no-obligation'?
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