Ruby Granger #28 What a depacle!

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She hasn't even had the chair for that long, right? Also, about Ruby's income - she's still getting money from renting out her cottage (afaik?) so basically she has more money than 90% of people her age.

Could you imagine her usual hyperspeed narration plus c though? I find it hard to follow her on her normal speeded up talking! 😂
I'm picturing Alvin and the Chipmunks helium voices. 😂

I feel it's important to make the point that the flour was undulating.
Oh no, NOT THE UNDULATING FLOUR!

I've read it, I quite liked it. It's sort of magical realism I guess you could call it?
I might add it to my TBR then. :) Although you scared me for a minute because I thought you were talking about liking Ruby's book!

I know nothing about the publishing industry- what are the chances her book does get published? What reputable publishing house will want this steaming pile of trash under their name? Penguin won't touch this with a ten-foot pole.
I would agree with you, but then I remember that Fifty Shades exists so...any horror is possible.
 
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The fleeting glimpses at her writing show that this tit isn't getting better with editing.

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Okay, this might seem very trivial, but I have just been doing KS2 writing moderations. As an example, I am going to put one sentence under the moderator microscope!
“I hide my hands behind my back instinctively but they don’t look at me.”
Edit to: “instinctively, I hide my hands behind my back….” By using a fronted adverbial, the sentence sounds far more coherent.

On the subject of fronted adverbials, there’s no comma after the “obviously” in Ms Demond’s speech, which means it is incorrectly punctuated. If this was a sample piece of writing for the moderation, Ruby would struggle to even meet the expected standard…

Finally, I find it strange that she’s chosen to write in present tense, and am curious if she’s sustained that throughout?
 
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I think you could save the chair if you got it reupholstered, but I swear she only got it 10 months ago when she redid her room? How on earth has she managed to rip it like that??

Maybe dog claws if they let their dogs sit on chairs? Although my dog goes on the sofa sometimes and that has never happened to it
 
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I think you could save the chair if you got it reupholstered, but I swear she only got it 10 months ago when she redid her room? How on earth has she managed to rip it like that??

Maybe dog claws if they let their dogs sit on chairs? Although my dog goes on the sofa sometimes and that has never happened to it
There was a chair in my house that looked like that after four plus years of constant use plus a dog sleeping on it.
 
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I heard lots of people say getting an agent is easy, but finding a company to publish your work is hard. And judging by the writing about Erimentha's lesser known twin, there probably is a small chance that she will get a publishing deal. I think it would be a freaking miracle if she does get published.
Yeah, getting an agent is relatively easy, but few people manage anything beyond that. If you take a look at the authortube world, it's full of excited announcements that they've landed an agent, with no sold/published novel in the years after that.

Ruby's agent situation is also full of red flags. Some agents enjoy getting involved in the editorial process, but most generally only sign a prospective author when they have a book that's in as close to publishable quality as they can get it, because agents don't make a single penny from an author until they sell a book to a publisher.

Usually if an author submits a mess of a novel full of structural problems, plot issues and riddled with spelling, grammar, syntax and punctuation errors, the agent won't usually sign them even if they see promise there. If there's an absolutely killer premise there, maybe they'll sign it in rough shape because the hook is worth the time investment, but not for a generic, borderline-plagiarised YA book.

There's no sense in working for free for months just trying to help an author get a book to the point where they can finally start shopping a mediocre book around and getting rejections from publishers. And if they have to teach a writer the English language from the ground up, it's a lost cause. They'll usually tell the author to go away, hone their English skills, work on the book, iron out all the problems and resubmit when it's in better shape. They usually sign them when the book is at that point, not when it needs 7+ rounds of massive from-scratch rewrites.

Her agent also tellingly announced the book to prospective publishing industry buyers as "the debut of studytuber influencer Ruby Granger" which isn't true, but also tips their hand - they clearly only signed Ruby for whatever influencer cred she has. I highly doubt any agent would've touched this project in this state from any other writer who didn't have a YouTube fanbase. But just because an agent sees that as an easy sell, doesn't mean a publisher will. They'll have immediate access to the sales metrics that show just how poorly influencer vanity books usually do.

This is where I'd love to see Ruby actually putting anything of substance in her videos. I'd love to see her interactions with her agent and the kind of revision requests she's getting at this stage. I'd love to see just what and how Ruby is editing. I mean, she's already revealed that she thinks editing is "mindless" and accidentally deletes crucial scenes to the plot purely because she's just blindly shuffling tit around and cutting paragraphs at random, but I'd love to know why she thinks it's okay to have a book be completely full of grammar, punctuation and syntax errors in the final draft stage (other than her just not realising her errors thanks to her overwhelming stupidity). And I'd love to know why her agent thinks that's okay, too.

A final draft should be where all those tiny, easy-to-spot errors get ironed out. Ruby's somehow still working on trying to figure out if the book's plot and structure makes sense while not addressing her fundamentally crappy grasp of things like punctuation.

If I were an agent, and one of the authors I represent handed in draft after draft of a book just packed from cover to cover with errors and issues, one-dimensional characters and clichés stolen from other books, and every interaction with them proved that they had no grasp of the English language, and I then spotted them crowdsourcing their writing by getting her Instagram followers to give her ideas, I couldn't drop them fast enough.

Ruby should've stuck with self-publishing, but her narcissism has her thinking she's entitled to the acknowledgement, accolades and financial success Stephen King and she won't be happy with less than a "big 5" publishing deal. She's in for a world of disappointment, and her agent's not helping brace her for that in any way.
 
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Long time lurker, first time poster. I’m finding her attempt to transition into a booktuber genuinely infuriating. It’s so obvious she’s seen the success Jack Edwards has had post uni and is trying to emulate that, but she’s always been so vocal about not enjoying contemporary books and only *reading* classics that the thought of her attempting to read and review popular booktok books comes across as completely disingenuous. Rant over lmao
 
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Asking her viewers to basically supply content for yet another video I see... God forbid she form her own opinions on popular books and compromise her bookworm persona with some actual, personal opinions, right 🙄
She gets more embarrassing by the day. She's got a wide open schedule and would rather just openly and blatantly ask other people to do her work for her than put a modicum of effort into anything.

She constantly claims she loves researching and learning new things, but can't be bothered to just Google "popular booktok books", pick the most popular 3-5 books, read them (a shocking prospect, I know) and explain in her own words why she thinks they're good or overrated. It's not even a good video idea. It's been done to bleeping death.

Get a bleeping job, Ruby.
 
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She gets more embarrassing by the day. She's got a wide open schedule and would rather just openly and blatantly ask other people to do her work for her than put a modicum of effort into anything.

She constantly claims she loves researching and learning new things, but can't be bothered to just Google "popular booktok books", pick the most popular 3-5 books, read them (a shocking prospect, I know) and explain in her own words why she thinks they're good or overrated. It's not even a good video idea. It's been done to bleeping death.

Get a bleeping job, Ruby.
She could post genuinely interesting book videos if she was actually interested in the things she claims to be obsessed with. A booktuber I watch has a series where they read popular books from each decade in the twentieth century, and with each book they research the historical context behind it and why it was popular. It’s such a unique and cool idea and because its so well researched is a really interesting video series. Ruby could easily do something like that but is just copying what every other booktuber did a year ago. 🤷🏻‍♀️
 
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She could post genuinely interesting book videos if she was actually interested in the things she claims to be obsessed with. A booktuber I watch has a series where they read popular books from each decade in the twentieth century, and with each book they research the historical context behind it and why it was popular. It’s such a unique and cool idea and because its so well researched is a really interesting video series. Ruby could easily do something like that but is just copying what every other booktuber did a year ago. 🤷🏻‍♀️
Sorry for being off-topic, but could you please share the booktuber's channel? I'm a sucker for Modernism and I'd love to give that series a watch!
 
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Sorry for being off-topic, but could you please share the booktuber's channel? I'm a sucker for Modernism and I'd love to give that series a watch!
She’s Sally Thames, genuinely such an interesting booktuber and I get really unique recommendations through her!
 
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The studygram discord. This is what happens when you let Grifter Granger influence your reading habits.
How on earth is ‘Never Let Me Go’ about dark academia and magic? Even if you only read the cover I genuinely don’t see how you could think it was about either of those things. And no, Ishiguro rarely ‘picks up the pace’ - that’s kind of the point …
 
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Do you think Ruby would have been better finding a good editor rather than an agent? I'm pretty ignorant about the publishing world, so I assumed an agent would also deal with the editing but it seems as though that's not the case and they're just there to represent the book/author and sell the book to publishers. Is that right? I think Ruby's book could benefit from the attention of a decent editor.

How on earth is ‘Never Let Me Go’ about dark academia and magic? Even if you only read the cover I genuinely don’t see how you could think it was about either of those things. And no, Ishiguro rarely ‘picks up the pace’ - that’s kind of the point …
The studygram discord. This is what happens when you let Grifter Granger influence your reading habits.
Oh dear. 😭 😂 I read 'Never Let Me Go' recently and would definitely recommend the book, but to say it has anything to do with 'boarding schools, dark academia and magic' would be so far off the mark. I won't detail the plot in case anyone here doesn't know and wants to avoid spoilers, but Kazuo Ishiguro is not the type of author to write a magical dark academia book. It's like watching Black Swan thinking it's going to be a straightforward Swan Lake ballet movie - the fact it's directed by Darren Aronofsky is the clue that you're wrong. 'Never Let Me Go' does feature a boarding school, but it's not a 'boarding school book'. It has sci-fi elements but definitely no magic. It uses these elements to explore broader themes of memory, nostalgia, progression from innocence to maturity, loss, etc etc.
 
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