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On the Vulgar Appetite for the “Fact”
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  1. Pamela Jo

    Craft Chat Any more info on the audiobooks children talk in the Bookseller?

    https://www.thebookseller.com/news/streaming-and-smart-speakers-make-audiobooks-more-available-childrens-conference-hears?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20Briefing
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  2. Pamela Jo

    Craft Chat This weeks articles in the Bookseller I'd like to read

    Latest NEWS 'I thought there had been a mistake': indie bookshops face business rate hikes of £9k Indie bookshops have reported facing ’enormous’ bill rises due to increased business rates after the government’s revaluation, as well as a drop in Business Rates Relief. Are...
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  3. Pamela Jo

    News Fairy Porn is booming-wasn't in the Bookseller

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/06/fairy-porn-is-this-booming-erotica-genre-an-insult-to-wales
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  4. Katie-Ellen

    An Example of 'Up-Lit.'

    Someone recently subbed a MSS categorized as 'up-lit' on Pop-Ups, and this was a new one for a few of us, me included. This, via The Bookseller. An unagented former primary school teacher-turned academic Jane O’Connor has signed a world rights deal with Ebury Press for her “quirky, charming”...
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