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Folks it pains me to ask so bluntly, but could anyone use some work doing by me? I've got to find income for three months until my next royalty payment, and I'm not having much luck.
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Folks it pains me to ask so bluntly, but could anyone use some work doing by me? I've got to find income for three months until my next royalty payment, and I'm not having much luck.
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Hello! We’re hiring!
October 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Hello! We’re hiring!
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"YOU WANT ME TO ARSE THE PARLOUR MAID?!"
October 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"YOU WANT ME TO ARSE THE PARLOUR MAID?!"
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If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk
Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer
I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services.
Get in touch!
www.mathew-owen.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk
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Everything about this.
August 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Everything about this.
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I’m one of the authors caught up in publisher Unbound’s demise. I have 30 copies of my houseplant book Legends of the Leaf to sell. £10 direct from me or £12 on eBay. I can sign it for you and I’ll pop in a couple of lovely houseplant cards/postcards for you. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26731322...
July 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I’m one of the authors caught up in publisher Unbound’s demise. I have 30 copies of my houseplant book Legends of the Leaf to sell. £10 direct from me or £12 on eBay. I can sign it for you and I’ll pop in a couple of lovely houseplant cards/postcards for you. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26731322...
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Don’t yell into that colander. You’ll strain your voice.
June 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Don’t yell into that colander. You’ll strain your voice.
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12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt.
In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)
In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)
June 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt.
In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)
In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)
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If you’ve read about the Unbound/Boundless scandal, you’ll know that quite a few authors are owed significant amounts of money. If you want to support them in a small way, it would be brilliant if you signed up to their newsletters/blogs etc, or bought any of their non-Unbound books. 1/n
June 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If you’ve read about the Unbound/Boundless scandal, you’ll know that quite a few authors are owed significant amounts of money. If you want to support them in a small way, it would be brilliant if you signed up to their newsletters/blogs etc, or bought any of their non-Unbound books. 1/n
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This is incredible. The biggest, worst theft I’ve seen so far.
Making any money as a writer is almost impossible these days, but if someone’s dipping into your earnings like this - and almost no writers earn at this level - that’s basically a heist.
Making any money as a writer is almost impossible these days, but if someone’s dipping into your earnings like this - and almost no writers earn at this level - that’s basically a heist.
They owe me about £75,000 and never made a single one of their scheduled repayments.
My US books are all a sublicense of my Unbound deal, so all US royalties went to them, for them to take a cut and then deliver the rest to me. They collected 18 months from Penguin Random House and gave me $0.
My US books are all a sublicense of my Unbound deal, so all US royalties went to them, for them to take a cut and then deliver the rest to me. They collected 18 months from Penguin Random House and gave me $0.
June 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This is incredible. The biggest, worst theft I’ve seen so far.
Making any money as a writer is almost impossible these days, but if someone’s dipping into your earnings like this - and almost no writers earn at this level - that’s basically a heist.
Making any money as a writer is almost impossible these days, but if someone’s dipping into your earnings like this - and almost no writers earn at this level - that’s basically a heist.
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It’s time for us to rally as an industry. If you’re an agent who will take submissions from unrepped Unbound / Boundless authors or a publisher interested in completed manuscripts, please post in this thread with your details & the kind of work you rep & I’ll repost.
Absolute rage and dismay for my talented, hardworking author friends who have been utterly fucked over by Unbound / Boundless. Income lost, years of work shelved, people feeling responsible for everyone who crowdfunded them - the financial & emotional impact can’t be overstated.
May 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It’s time for us to rally as an industry. If you’re an agent who will take submissions from unrepped Unbound / Boundless authors or a publisher interested in completed manuscripts, please post in this thread with your details & the kind of work you rep & I’ll repost.
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As an aside: DO NOT ORDER THE PAPERBACK.
I notice they’re still saying it’ll be published by Unbound. It won’t. I got my rights back and will be finding a new home for it soon.
If you’ve preordered, ask for a refund.
amzn.eu/d/6l5Nfvy
I notice they’re still saying it’ll be published by Unbound. It won’t. I got my rights back and will be finding a new home for it soon.
If you’ve preordered, ask for a refund.
amzn.eu/d/6l5Nfvy
Be Funny or Die: How comedy works and why it matters: Amazon.co.uk: Morris, Joel: 9781789652093: Books
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May 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
As an aside: DO NOT ORDER THE PAPERBACK.
I notice they’re still saying it’ll be published by Unbound. It won’t. I got my rights back and will be finding a new home for it soon.
If you’ve preordered, ask for a refund.
amzn.eu/d/6l5Nfvy
I notice they’re still saying it’ll be published by Unbound. It won’t. I got my rights back and will be finding a new home for it soon.
If you’ve preordered, ask for a refund.
amzn.eu/d/6l5Nfvy
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Dear Suede. I notice you have a song called "June Rain", my name is John Rain and I am happy to appear in the video as Terry Scott.
May 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Dear Suede. I notice you have a song called "June Rain", my name is John Rain and I am happy to appear in the video as Terry Scott.
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THIS SUNDAY! Simply respond to this by typing out your late mother's name, I'll put her name on the list. I'll be reading out all the names of our #RememberedMums from about 8:30 on Sunday morning here:
March 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
THIS SUNDAY! Simply respond to this by typing out your late mother's name, I'll put her name on the list. I'll be reading out all the names of our #RememberedMums from about 8:30 on Sunday morning here:
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Mothering Sunday's at the end of this month. If your Mum's dead and you'd like me to read out her name in Lancaster Priory on the morning of the 30th, please respond to this with her name and tag the post #RememberedMums25. Reposts welcome. 👑 ❤️
March 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Mothering Sunday's at the end of this month. If your Mum's dead and you'd like me to read out her name in Lancaster Priory on the morning of the 30th, please respond to this with her name and tag the post #RememberedMums25. Reposts welcome. 👑 ❤️
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Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform
November 19, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform
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Our shop was in this big complex that housed a series of small individual shops.
My boss, as well as running his comic shop into the ground, and making my daily working life unbearable, was the caretaker for the entire complex.
Which is how he came to be on the roof that day, trying to fix a leak.
My boss, as well as running his comic shop into the ground, and making my daily working life unbearable, was the caretaker for the entire complex.
Which is how he came to be on the roof that day, trying to fix a leak.
November 17, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Our shop was in this big complex that housed a series of small individual shops.
My boss, as well as running his comic shop into the ground, and making my daily working life unbearable, was the caretaker for the entire complex.
Which is how he came to be on the roof that day, trying to fix a leak.
My boss, as well as running his comic shop into the ground, and making my daily working life unbearable, was the caretaker for the entire complex.
Which is how he came to be on the roof that day, trying to fix a leak.
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Non-artists: please gently let your well-intentioned niche blogger friends know that generating an AI illustration for their posts is not a harmless novelty. There are so many sources for free, eye-pleasing, not-environmentally-rapacious images. Creative Commons licenses, public domain art history.
October 8, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Non-artists: please gently let your well-intentioned niche blogger friends know that generating an AI illustration for their posts is not a harmless novelty. There are so many sources for free, eye-pleasing, not-environmentally-rapacious images. Creative Commons licenses, public domain art history.
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AI is a desperately mediocre confabulating plagiarism engine designed by tech bros with no talent, who are laying waste to the creative industries and artists livelihoods, and using planet-killing amounts of electricity and water to make the shittiest and most boring simulacrums of human expression.
September 24, 2024 at 3:50 PM
AI is a desperately mediocre confabulating plagiarism engine designed by tech bros with no talent, who are laying waste to the creative industries and artists livelihoods, and using planet-killing amounts of electricity and water to make the shittiest and most boring simulacrums of human expression.
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Anytime someone gives me a plant as a gift they should give the plant a blindfold and a final cigarette frankly.
May 20, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Anytime someone gives me a plant as a gift they should give the plant a blindfold and a final cigarette frankly.
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Apologies for reposting this. You can't pin a post here, just want to make sure people see it. Reposts welcomed comrades. x
Mothering Sunday can be hard if she's no longer around. As usual, I shall be reading out the names of our Remembered Mums on Sunday, March 10th. If you'd like me to say your late Mum/Mam/Mom's name aloud in Lancaster Priory, reply to this with her name and #Mums2024. Cheers, Ian 👑 ❤️
February 11, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Apologies for reposting this. You can't pin a post here, just want to make sure people see it. Reposts welcomed comrades. x