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We are delighted to announce bestselling novelist, historian and playwright, @katemosse , as this year's #SoAAwards keynote speaker! The ceremony will take place at @Southwarkcathed on 20 June.

‘Now, more than ever, books matter’ – Kate Mosse announced as 2024 SoA Awards keynote speaker - The...

Bestselling novelist, historian and playwright announced as keynote speaker for annual Society of Authors’ Awards ceremony on 20 June

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In a major improvement for authors of books available on Kindle — and following months of discussions with @Soc_of_Authors and @AuthorsGuild — Amazon is ending its policy of returns on fully read ebooks.

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@blablafishcakes We don't 'demand' preferred pronouns. We simply make sure that if an author is shortlisted or wins a prize, we can refer to them as they would like. There's nothing misguided about offering that choice.

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Today let's hear it for the schools and librarians up and down the country who do so much to promote reading for pleasure, not just on WBD but throughout the school year 👏👏📚📚 #WorldBookDay

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A very warm welcome to the many writers, illustrators and translators who have signed up as members of the SoA this week. It is more important than ever that authors find common ground, to work together and support each other.

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£330,000 Authors' Emergency Fund - small grants to help support authors affected financially by #CoronaCrisis (thanks to the incredible generosity of @ALCS , @rlfwriters , @eliotfoundation , @englishpen and @AmazonUK )

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'Freelance' was coined in 1820 to describe a mercenary not sworn to a particular lord — not some poor sod who did all your lancing for free.

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It's 2019 and we're still asking women how old they are in features and reviews and side-lining women's writing as a 'niche group'. It's getting boring now.

Male and female writers’ media coverage reveals ‘marked bias’

The Emilia Report, named after England’s first published female poet, analysed the fortunes of writers of opposite sexes in the same market areas

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We've been keeping a little secret. Time to share. #AuthorSHARE

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Authors to earn royalties on secondhand books for first time

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We're excited to host the publication of ' #MentalHealth for Creative Freelancers' - a free wellbeing-focused comic for creatives designed by 11 of the UK's most exciting comic creators. #Wellbeing #AntiBullyingWeek FREE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD:

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It's a GOOD tweet.

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Reading is cool. Books are cool. That’s it. That’s the tweet 📚

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IF YOU WRITE BOOKS FOR A LIVING PLEASE GET UP AND GO TO THE PARK FOR A BIT EVERY WEEK OR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH WILL SHRIVEL UP LIKE A LEMON AT THE BACK OF THE FRIDGE

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Gather round, everyone. We need to talk about widespread bad practice among companies that charge writers for publication. This is a long thread, but it’s important. So read on. Share. And be very concerned. #IsItASteal

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Congratulations, Sir @PhilipPullman - you've gone and made us proud again. SoA President knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours.

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We urgently need to protect copyright and creative careers in the face of new technology. In the week that a major UK literary festival advertised its 2023 line-up with AI generated images, we've published the first iteration of our position paper on AI.

Artificial Intelligence - The Society of Authors

Protecting copyright and creative careers in the face of new technology

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Following widespread criticism from artists and authors of @BradfordLitFest 's use of AI images, we wrote yesterday evening to festival director @SyimaAslam to urge the festival to replace the images with credited artwork from a human creator.

Use of AI: an exchange with Bradford Literature Festival - The Society of Authors

We urge the festival to replace the AI illustrations with credited artwork from a human artist

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A response and call for unity.

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My fellow human women, aren't you glad we have life coaches to tell us where we're going wrong in love? I knew my copy of Slaughterhouse-Five was putting men off!

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Salman Rushdie - our thoughts are with the author following Friday's hateful attack in New York.

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Well, well well

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Dear authors - an important question from a very stressed 12 year old friend. He'd love to hear your thoughts. Literary superheroes please enter stage left... #AuthorsAssemble

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Okay, gather round everyone. We need to talk. Big thread, sorry, but I would like you to read it.

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PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE IMPORTANT NOT JUST FOR THE INTANGIBLE VALUE OF BOOKS BUT FOR THE VITAL COMMUNITY SERVICES THEY PROVIDE AND IF YOU DON'T FIGHT TO PROTECT THEM YOU WILL LOSE THEM FOREVER #SAVELIBRARIES

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We're calling for action to help halt the decline of authors' incomes. It's complex, but we're pushing for change in four key areas of industry practice and legislation:

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@blablafishcakes Again, it is not a 'demand'. Authors can choose to answer, just as they can choose to provide education, training and career details. Some answer it, some don't, which is fine.

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Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! Please make sure your female character is witty and flawed and does not exist purely to support another male character. Give her a narrative arc! Make sure that it doesn't include winning a man's love! And so on. Thank you!

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To all the bookshops opening today and the day after and the week after that: good luck, we love you, thank you. Be safe, see you soon. 📚📚📚📚📚 #ChooseBookshops

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🌍 Tomorrow is the Global Climate Strike – hundreds of thousands are expected to down tools for the day, but for authors we’re proposing a strike with a difference. Use your voice. Be louder than ever. 🎨 by @HennyBeaumont @poets4theplanet #ClimateStrike

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Reading is so cool people make entire careers out of writing so kids can do exactly that wherever they want. Just ask @neilhimself or @malorieblackman .

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I am RAGING. Someone made fun of Gwen for reading on the school bus! She loves books, but this has knocked her confidence. So Twitter, help me out! Show my 11-year old that reading books in public is cool! #amreading #kidlit #books #readingrocks #readingcommunity #ukteenchat

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IF AUTHORS AREN'T PAID FAIRLY FOR THEIR WORK THEN THE SUPPLY OF GOOD BOOKS WILL DWINDLE UNTIL ALL WE HAVE LEFT TO READ IS PUBLIC DOMAIN VAMPIRE ROMANCE NOVELLAS, WHICH IS FINE BUT VARIETY IS NICE

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Tell an author you love their book, pass it on #WorldKindessDay

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On #NationalWritingDay *please please* don't feel bad if you're not writing right now, or you can't, or you're not writing what you WANT to be writing. All non-writing, as writers, is writing. Right?

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Our President @PhilipPullman has described the sweeping closures of UK public libraries as "a disgrace to civilisation". #ns

Philip Pullman slams library closures at Hay Festival

Philip Pullman said that libraries are "absolutely, fundamentally, necessary" at Hay Festival.

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Here to remind you to switch off your computer/laptop right now and grab some lunch. Go for a walk or have a stretch. The work will be there when you get back and will be all the better for it.

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For the avoidance of doubt, we still strongly urge @BradfordLitFest to replace the AI illustrations in their publicity with credited artwork from a human creator. We are pleased to be talking to the organisers, but as many of you have pointed out the images are still there.

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We were pleased to receive a thoughtful, clear and constructive response from @BradfordLitFest 's director @SyimaAslam this afternoon, and an invitation to engage further with us on this complex topic. We've updated our post with Syima's full reply.

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What's the Most Author Thing you've done this week? I just spent an hour writing 500 words, deleting it in a rage and spent another 30 minutes making coffee

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A reminder to parliamentary candidates who think they care about the UK’s cultural, creative and literate future, of one of our pre-election asks: ‘to renew support for libraries at national level’. BECAUSE, GUYS, THIS IS NOT OK...

Britain has closed almost 800 libraries since 2010, figures show

Annual survey shows sharp cuts to local authority funding have led to the loss of 17% of branches, alongside sharp staff and funding shortfalls

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A letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald, quarantined in 1920 in the south of France during the influenza outbreak. "I focus on a single strain of light, calling me forth to believe in a better morrow."

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It's #WorldPoetryDay and you know what that means! All your favourite brands are going to be claiming that violets are blue, and not violet.

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Children's laureate Chris Riddell's final statement before handing over to his successor. No bones being made here:

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Keep your voices loud, authors. We're aware of this site and will do what we can to stop them. If you've been affected, contact ebook bike and ask them to remove your books. Then do it again and again and again.

Bella Osborne

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Authors please check your books are not being given away for free by ebook bike. This is not a phishing site it is giving away your hard work for free. @Soc_of_Authors please take action. #authors #booktheft #WritingCommunity

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📣📣📣 IT IS NOT OKAY TO SCAN BOOKS AND SELL THEM WITHOUT PERMISSION OR WITHOUT PAYING AUTHORS ANY ROYALTIES. BAD FOR AUTHORS. BAD FOR READERS. BAD FOR PUBLISHERS. 📣📣📣 Thank you @Porter_Anderson for this great article explaining why:

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What's the collective noun for a group of authors? An anxiety? #SoA19AGM

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We're celebrating the 40th anniversary since the introduction of Public Lending Right in the UK and we want your messages of support! 🎉 Tell us what PLR means to you and why it's valuable to authors for our big birthday card:

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New study in Germany finds fixed book prices "fosters the discovery of unknown titles and authors" as well as "the sale of titles beyond bestsellers" and "make books less expensive on average" >>

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Our thoughts are with Salman Rushdie following today's horrific attack in New York.

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You didn't hear it from us.

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Lovely bit of news today as we award over 70 authors nearly £185,000 in grants to complete their writing projects. Best part of the job 🙌

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The ADCI Literary Prize for a work by an author who self-identifies as disabled or chronically ill. It must be fiction and must contain one or more characters that are disabled and/or living with chronic illness. D/L 31 Oct.

The ADCI Literary Prize - The Society of Authors

Encouraging greater positive representation of disability in literature

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We’ll be issuing an abuse report with the organisations enabling ebookbike and Open Library to exist online, for infringing copyrighted works. For now, here are 5 steps you can take if your work has been pirated online: (1/6)

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🍾Very excited to announce that Joanne Harris has been elected Chair of the SoA's Management Committee @Joannechocolat

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It's Friday and you're halfway through January. This is good.

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Very excited to announce the launch of #AuthorSHARE - the new scheme that pays authors royalties on second-hand books. Huge thanks to @WorldofBooksltd , @Bookbarn_BBI and @ALCS_UK for working together to make this happen.

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#NationalWritingDay is here and if that means not-writing for you today, that's still valid. You're still a writer even if some days don't count.

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The SoA stands with #WritersGuildofAmerica . We join our creative colleagues in support of film and TV writers who have taken to the picket lines in the US, to call for an end to the 'gig economy inside a union workforce' and 'existential crisis' faced by professional writers.

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When you wake up and see the tweets you sent from the pub last night

The Bookseller

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. @Forbes removes article suggesting Amazon should replace libraries:

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Book sales have soared and most publishers have fared well – but many authors have suffered due to lack of visibility for their books, lost income from school visits, teaching & appearances, illness, or fallen through the cracks in government schemes.

UK book sales soared in 2020 despite pandemic

New figures from the Publishers Association show fiction and audiobooks did particularly well, with value of consumer sales up 7% on 2019 despite bookshop closures

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To mark #InternationalTranslationDay we call on every writer to ask their publishers for cover credits for the people who translate their work. #TranslatorsOnTheCover Sign our letter and join @Mark_Haddon , @BernardineEvari , @Joannechocolat and 100+ more

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Happy #WorldBookDay to every single author – writer, illustrator and literary translator – who make the world of books go round, and for whom the last year has been exceptionally difficult. Today's message: BUY BOOKS 📚

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Reader, they said yes.

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Got invited to do an author talk at a fancy private school and was gonna ignore it but instead said this... let’s see what they say 🙃🙃

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You're going to see a few excited tweets today, because we just gave out £180,000 in Authors' Foundation grants to help authors with works-in-progress.

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It's a Good Day for these 78 writers who've been awarded almost £185,000 in grants for their works in progress, buying them time to write and help with research costs 🎉: #SoAGrants

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4a – If one single person says the word ‘exposure’ in the replies I’m going to Kick Off

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Today we're bookending another year by handing out £185,000 worth of grants for works in progress to 48 writers – bringing more incredible stories into the world from a range of genres and styles. Read more joy here: #SoAgrants

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🌏 HAPPY INTERNATIONAL TRANSLATION DAY🌏🖊️ Time to celebrate those translators of yours. Authors, what makes yours so special? #CelebrateYourTranslator #ITD #InternationalTranslationDay @Joannechocolat @malorieblackman @PhilipPullman @neilhimself

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Did you know we're a trade union? Like, a real one? We've got a certificate which says you can go to publishers and put on a gruff voice like "I'm from the union, so watch it pal". That'll show em #HistoryInPictures

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Say hello to our new committee members for our Children's Writers and Illustrators Group (CWIG), fighting the good fight in children's publishing: @redbreastedbird @whatSFSaid @MrSteveAntony . HELLO, LOVELY PEOPLE.

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@neilhimself Well, Neil? When is a door? WHEN?

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"A picture of a writing profession that is inaccessible and unsustainable for too many" - our response to @ALCS_UK 's 2022 report on author incomes. #PayTheCreator

A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors

ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006

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@LRBbookshop LOL, what a funny series of joke tweets! Delete them immediately and report alone to the British Library for a meeting, do not bring weapons

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‘Powerful evidence that the art of translation is alive and thriving’ – announcing the 2021 #TranslationPrizes shortlists. Congratulations to all the shortlisted #translators and editors. 🎉 #TranslatorsOnTheCover #NameTheTranslator

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Hello, I'm an author in a movie. I write on a typewriter even though it's the 21st century. I am surrounded by screwed-up balls of paper in my unreasonably large apartment. I talk about Hunter S Thompson a lot.

Rory Turnbull

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Hello, I'm a professor in a movie, I only reach the main point of my lecture right as class is ending. Then I yell at students about the reading / homework as they leave.

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Announcing the Translation Prizes 2023 shortlists. 50 shortlisted works, eight prizes, ten languages – and a £28,000 prize fund. See the full shortlists here: #TranslationPrizes

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We just shared £140,000 between 61 authors to support new work. Don't hold back - tell us how NICE we are. 🎁

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Vital adult literacy campaign Quick Reads is to close after being unable to find a sponsor. £120,000 isn't much for a commercial sponsor, inside or outside publishing. Do you know someone who knows someone? #SaveQuickReads

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IT'S NOT NICE TO TAKE THE RIGHTS TO SOMEONE'S WORK AND THEN SIT ON THOSE RIGHTS FOR THIRTY YEARS WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING. PUT REVERSION CLAUSES IN YOUR CONTRACTS PLEASE

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Announcing the Society of Authors' Awards shortlists – 29 writers and illustrators shortlisted for £100,000 prize fund, including our inaugural children's illustrated book prize! > #SoAwards With thanks to @ALCS_UK ✨

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BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. IF SOMEONE SAYS YOUR BOOK IS BAD, CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY THAT IT IS IN FACT THEY WHO IS BAD

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NEVER TAKE FREEDOM OF SPEECH FOR GRANTED. THERE ARE PLACES WHERE AUTHORS CAN BE IMPRISONED JUST FOR SPEAKING OUT. SUPPORT @ENGLISHPEN .

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'Celebrating disabled authors and their stories' - we're excited to announce the new ADCI Literary Prize for authors with a disability or chronic illness. Thanks to its inspirational co-founders @penny_author and @RedDoorBooks . 📷© Adrian Pope #SoAwards

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We were saddened to learn of the death of AS Byatt - a longstanding member of the SoA, and an SoA Fellow having served as Chair of the Management Committee from 1986-1988. “It’s the most important thing in my life, making things.”

AS Byatt, author and critic, dies aged 87

The acclaimed author of novels including Possession and The Children’s Book, has died, her publisher has confirmed

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We still have a pot of money available in our Authors' Contingency Fund, helping all types of authors in financial difficulty due to the health crisis 💰 Apply below for grants of up to £2,000:

Grants for writers in need - The Society of Authors

Taking the crisis out of life's ups and downs

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An appalling day for journalism and freedom of speech. This sets a terrifying precedent. @englishpen @YaseminCongar_ @neilhimself @j_mcconnachie @Joannechocolat

Turkey sentences journalists to life in jail over coup attempt

Sentencing over alleged role in failed putsch condemned as showing disregard for rule of law

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So I've got my hands on a free pair of Society of Authors' Awards tickets to give away if you can help get us to 50k followers. WHADDYA SAY? RT and follow us and let's find 500 more of you who'll put up with my tweets 🍿🍿

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Congratulations to the four successful candidates in this year's Management Committee elections - @Helen_Fields , @nadinematheson , Nikesh Shukla and @JCCWilliams will take their seats on the SoA board after the AGM on 16 November.

Fields, Matheson, Shukla and Williams elected to Society of Authors’ Board - The Society of Authors

Helen Fields, Nadine Matheson, Nikesh Shukla and Julia Williams to take their seats on SoA Management Committee after the 2023 AGM on 16 November

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"The law of copyright is one of the bastions of civilized living, but the acid rain of online piracy is slowly dissolving something we thought was set in stone." @PhilipPullman today:

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In the mood for some good news? After years of campaigning, Europe's ruled that we can bring VAT on ebooks to ZERO.

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We’re not changing our handle for Halloween because the world is scary enough as it is, and also my boss vetoed it, so.

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The shortlists for the 2019 Translation Prizes are here!!! Congratulations to all, feast your eyes on the shortlisted books here: #TranslationPrizes19 🏆

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Happy Monday, authors. Be gentle with yourselves today and this week and this month. I have personally ordered about a kilo of coffee this morning to get through January Twitter.

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Also I'm not allowed to promote my book on here, so I won't. But I CAN tell you that for these past five years I have been @Niall_Slater and if any of you yell at me about the copyright directive again I'll cry. I'm not afraid to cry at you. I love you all, GOODBYE

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Have you written your debut novel at age 40 or over? Whether it's published or unpublished, enter our McKitterick Prize and win cold hard cash. D/L: HALLOWE'EN. 🎃

McKitterick Prize - The Society of Authors

For a first novel by an author over 40

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Please beware library protesters. They're often in league with the forces of darkness and blood rituals are commonplace at their gatherings.

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Who are shadowy figures behind these direct-action protesters bringing chaos to our streets? @landatthebottom any idea?

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Now I'm not saying that this is what we should be doing when we move offices halfway across London next year ... no, wait, that's exactly what I'm saying. Nice work, Southampton:

Southampton bookshop enlists human chain to move to new store

More than 2,000 books carried by volunteers to October Books’ new premises

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Happy Valentine's Day to everyone except the Daily Mail 💗

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My fellow human women, aren't you glad we have life coaches to tell us where we're going wrong in love? I knew my copy of Slaughterhouse-Five was putting men off!

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Amplify black author voices, now more than ever. Then keep going. Keep reading, creating, writing, translating. We stand with all black authors and black creators. #BlackLivesMatter

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I gave myself a headache. My point is, authors: you have to talk to each other, and stick up for each other. That's what unions are all about. It's one of the reasons Twitter isn't completely pointless.

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Come on, Brian.

JB Barrington

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Message to Brian

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From the @guardian - a report on @ALCS_UK 's latest research on author incomes: Writers’ earnings have plummeted – with women, Black and mixed race authors worst hit

Writers’ earnings have plummeted – with women, Black and mixed race authors worst hit

Research shows that the income of professional authors averages only £7,000 in the UK, making the profession ‘inaccessible and unsustainable’ to most

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Dear @guardiannews - why did you write 'Clare, who described herself as an author' (compared with 'Rob, a 31-year-old researcher' and 'Emma, a 32-year-old marketing executive')? Asking on behalf of 11,700 friends who describe themselves as authors.

‘I dread a new provider’: Bulb customers mourn its collapse

Most users are positive about firm’s customer service, but others say it had deteriorated

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