on the way out, we discussed the work and he told me i was a good sport. i told him i'd changed my mind anyway. he stopped, put his hands on my arms, grinning ear to ear, and said... "oh thou! my lovely boy who in thy power doth hold time's fickle glass his fickle hour!" he was an amazing man.

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I would really like to get better at pitching - I definitely don't think I'm very good at it - but how do you ever improve when nobody has time or energy to give feedback? It's a changed landscape; I used to hear a lot from editors and they'd work with you to make a pitch fit.

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This is a tricky one. I've been doing this since 2015, but over the last 2 years anything I've pitched that WASN'T a review has been rejected or (more commonly) completely ignored. This is likely down to my skill as much as the industry, but it's tough to land criticism / think pieces these days.

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I'm really fucking devastated right now so instead here's the picture Patrick Stewart posted nearly 13 years ago to the day with the caption "happy halloween" of him dressed as a giant lobster in a bathtub.

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Our Meghan Ellis's latest review is up now for Shoreline of Infinity, digging into Peter Watts's latest book Fold Catastrophes. Find out why Meghan describes it as having a "cold optimism" to it below. www.shorelineofinfinity.com/fold-catastr... @meghan0n.bsky.social @shoreinf.bsky.social

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