M P Dalton

If you bought this from Amazon, you might really enjoy it and I would eventually be marginally less poor.

She just explained men in the best way possible

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@LindsayAuthor I think it has to do with fashions and homogeneity. When I look in the bookshops I don’t see any risks being taken.

Do you think traditional publishing has more to do with skill, talent, or pure luck?

@ParanormalJunk2 I think it’s a shame that nobody writes like that nowadays.

Behold, the kind of opening sentence that makes me utterly fall in love with a sentence ♥️

They don't make ads like this anymore

@on_da_spectrum Brown Eyed Girl is worse than Baby Shark, or YMCA?

I think a lot about what it must be like to be Van Morrison. Leave your band, score a massive hit with the worst song ever, spend the next 15 years releasing perfect albums, still everybody at your shows just wants to hear you play, the worst song ever

@ParanormalJunk2 Like the prose you’re reading, purple.

Convince me to read your book by telling me the colour I will imagine when I read the 20th word of the 1363rd page of the second edition.

A simple guideline: any post that starts with “BREAKING…” will usually be followed by a load of complete and utter rubbish.

@kitwilsonwriter Coincidentally, I used to go to a dentist in Farnham. I remember her because her breath was so bad.

We need to relentlessly mock the habit of starting every single chapter in contemporary “ideas” books with a “One summer day in 1962, a dentist from Farnham received an unusual visitor”-style anecdotes, until publishers stop telling authors to do it.

@ParanormalJunk2 books2read.com/u/4Xpvr6 This has been out a while, but hasn't been available in all regions.

Not having any reviews on your books is the WORST. Drop the link of books that have under 5 reviews and I’ll read and review some.

Using Draft2Digital, I've successfully got it to publish my ebook, but it won't accept the print version because it says it refers to itself being an ebook. It doesn't. It doesn't even mention ebook anywhere in the text, except as part of the word 'notebook'. Any ideas why?

@ParanormalJunk2 107. Not ageing well.

How old are you turning this year? 53 in December. The inexorable march of time continues…

@ParanormalJunk2 Yes to all three questions.

I see all these engagement bait posts boosting peoples algorithm but I just can’t do it. Pride, is it pride? 😂 Is there anyone on here over 50 Does anyone value manners anymore Does anyone like women who don’t wear makeup I mean, they do the numbers but I’d feel ridiculous 😂

@ParanormalJunk2 Yes, I see what you mean. Thankfully, I don’t think I’ve ever used the word without it meaning “with minimal noise”.

@MPauldalton It’s hard to explain in a tweet, but if you google AI use of quietly it explains it really well 😊

Currently these are AI tells for me in creative content ‘…and honestly?’ ‘Quietly…’ ‘More than just a…’

@CatArthurian We do use “prodigious” now. I wasn’t aware it had fallen into disuse.

In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), the Yahoos are filthy, savage humanoids. Swift coined it as an insult for degraded humanity and the word stuck. That said, I have never used it other than referring to the internet company. I am sure that the founders of Yahoo!, one of the pioneering giants of the early web era, knew this when they chose their brand name. 😏 Or was it, as some say, a playful backronym: Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle... There are a lot of words we no longer use which I've learned from old books. 'Prodigious' is one of my favourites. What's yours? #18thCenturyFiction #Words #GulliversTravels

@ParanormalJunk2 That would make a great film!

Great aunt was married to a millionaire (that was more impressive in the 80s) and died of cancer and her sister, who had been a nun, was her carer and then married her widower.

@PJSkinnerAuthor For a while I did have “warning - includes mild necrophilia” on the back cover of one of mine.

@MPauldalton Thanks. I can't use it, but I want to

Trigger warnings: Do you use them? I'm swapping from cosy to police procedural so I'm thinking of using the following as a trigger warning: Please do not read this book if you are likely to be triggered by anything stronger than a quote from Marcus Aurellius. While never gratuitouss in nature, the story may include references to murder, rape, child abuse, drugs, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, stabbing and other crimes. It also contains bad jokes, history, terrible weather, and questionable taste in clothing. You have been warned. - What do you think?