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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Alas, due to lack of funds and being busy as all that. I will not be at Fantasycon this year. Hope to make the next one.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'Stands to his/her/their feet' has to be one of the most frequent things I cut from an MS. 'They/he/she stand' is just fine.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

90% of the time I keep my weekends free. I just had to take a sick day last week and it's knocked my schedule. I should be back on track by Monday and have my weekends following free.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bit broken by this week - having to catch up on my schedule due to a sick day last week, and parenting challenges, plus the joy of working the weekend.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Taking the girls to Paulton's Park tomorrow. Hopefully I'll not prove too fat for some of the rides like I did at Thorpe Park. Which was... embarassing.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Do you want to work for free on a project for which no one is getting paid?" Damn, I love it when they talk dirty.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Marvellous. I shall ask about that at the pre-op appointment. It will be nice for everything not to be slightly misty. Though then having to change my glasses prescription again is going to be a cost I could do without.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Middle-age mile stone achieved! Being booked in for cataract surgery.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have almost reached the finale of The Boys. A show that should have ended a season or two earlier, and which is increasingly obsessed with things going up or coming out of bottoms.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is what plays in my head every time I edit a training scene in a fantasy novel.

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Team america montage

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not an excuse at all, but it may be because Rebellion sold off their fiction publishing side of the business a few months ago. I'm not 100% surprised that they failed to communicate with some of their authors properly.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If your character smiles, write that they/he/she smiled. Not offered, gave, quirked, delivered, showed a smile.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My boss is making me work on a sick day because he is a nob. (For clarity, I am my boss. (Still a nob, though))

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Controversial opinion of the day - the term crossover fiction can get in the sea. Shortly followed by 'New Adult'.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Saturday's gig was Sam Campbell at the New Theatre in Oxford. An evening of silly fun. Very much enjoyed it. Especially for the Big Night Out vibes.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Feeling poorly today, so spending the majority of my time on the sofa with Alan Moore's latest.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Last night's gig was Mike Wozniak at the Oxford Play House. Absolutely loved it - Wozniak's whimsical provincial tales are beautifully structured, beautifully observed, and pleasingly strange. "I know he's a liar, because he once told me he saw a cow do a press-up."

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Having listened to The Castle, Jon Ronson's excellent new book. Bloody hell, it's good. Makes me extra angry about AI and billionaires.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

AI may be dangerous, say the people who make AI. What if - and hear me out - you don't make it dangerous then? Better yet, hoy it into the sea. Right fucking in it.

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Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Helen Grant discusses her ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES and her love of Gothic fiction: "The big thing I love about the Gothic is that it is filled with emotion. When something terrifying happens, I’m interested in how that makes people feel." Full interview: swanriverpress.ie/2024/09/exca...

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Last night's movie was Saccharine, which I thoroughly enjoyed. A queer body horror movie with an emotional core.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Author just used the word 'sibilated' rather than 'said' and now I want to put my fist through a dictionary.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sure, just make up words. Why not?! *sobs in editor*

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It was preferable to the massive live rat she once brought in, and which ran over my foot in the darkness.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Minnie was released from cat prison yesterday - she graced us with a dirty protest in her cat carrier, and then sought our forgiveness with a huge dead pigeon presented to us at midnight.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It is week whatever of the school holidays. Effectively eleventy billion years until they go back.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Killings at Parrish Station was just perfect. Just the right amount of cosmic horror to get your imagination going and a thread of dry humour throughout. Also, six and done. Great to have a show that is brave enough to tell a complete story.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Buy yes, publishing marketing terms, they are... a thing.

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George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am beyond excited to announce SQUAMOUS, my forthcoming memoir of a career in indie publishing. In which a withered husk of an editor attempts to accurately describe that which defies all rational minds.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I'm beyond excited and so is my wife... we'll get a room.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 05/08/2026

I'm not sure why we're posting about ai but I don't use AI in my writing, in my cover art, etc. I've had every feature that could automatically modify text in Word turned off for decades, and AI is just more of the same. Every edit lovingly done by hand.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I believe it is where all the cokerneys go for their holidays.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It's fine. I'll throw my own damn publishing party.

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Another year and still no invite to the Kim Newman summer party...

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I remember a work colleague getting furious over the phone to his phone provider. When asked to spell out his address for the umpteenth time, he shouted, "No! It starts with a B. As in bullshit!"

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Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Burning the candle at both ends and in the middle so that I can take a week off next week.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 367: Nothing you write is ever wasted. Whether anyone reads it or not, it helps build something better. It counts.

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