mirrigold.bsky.social
Yorkshire girl, a journalist, sub-editor and digital news producer for 20 years across the UK, now working freelance, dedicated reader, inveterate romantic, deluded optimist. 🏳🌈💗🎶☕🎨👩🎨📚 She/her LGBTQ+ Blogging at: https://mirrigold.com
👤 Joined on 02 November 2023
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@mirrigold.bsky.socialWith new information early this week, 49ers and De’Zhaun Stribling make a smart decision and opt to repair his deltoid rupture. Surgery will allow a complete recovery and Stribling should be back in late November or early December.
Show PostThis is not a question of “shallowgirl readers choosing glitter over literary substance.” It is a question of “publishers are making decisions to try and fill an emptying market niche, and this is the thing they think has the most money in it.” Blame the corporations, not the kids.
Show PostIt’s arguably one of the biggest shifts in publishing history and we don’t even know yet all the ways it’s going to shake out. We are mid-earthquake, and you can bet that the publishers are freaking out about it.
Show PostTo return to my original, long-ago starting point: I brought up Everyman’s Library because its history demonstrates one thing so clearly: new luxury book lines tend to pop up alongside major book format shifts. We are seeing glitzy romantasy editions right when the mmpb has been declared dead.
Show PostIn a world where the Folio Society will sell you a $100 edition of Batman comics — a genre which also used to be coded as ephemeral trash for young readers with no taste — it is *absurd* that the only place to find a fancy edition of romance classic Lord of Scoundrels is on Kickstarter:
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