Just made a decision to put out my second short story collection in collaboration with a new small press. It's all done and will be published in autumn. More news very soon.
No advance. No "branding". Brilliant cover art and editing that I'm paying for myself.
UP THE FUCKING REVOLUTION.
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
OH MY GOD HE LITERALLY GRABBED HER HAIR IT WASN'T JUST "ASKING FOR A KISS" GO FUCK YOURSELVES, BBC NEWS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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David Stroud was convicted in a first-of-its-kind sex-based harassment charge in May.
Publishers: “Short stories don’t sell and are impossible to market so we are not going to take the risk of publishing them.”
Also publishers: “What can we publish to fit this era of reduced attention spans when people are reading fewer novels?”