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D.R. Bailey
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D.R. Bailey
@DRBailey8
Author🔎Cat Lover owner of crazycat😺 Spitfire Mavericks, DI Gallway Investigates, Bernadette Mackenna series. Married to fabulously supportive wife ❤️
Wellington, New Zealand Katılım Nisan 2019
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@MadelaineLucyH You've got to admit some of the tropes particularly in movies get a bit silly - "I heard a noise downstairs and now I'm going to investigate with no means of defending myself and making sure I'm wearing revealing undies..." 😂
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The worst kind of critic is one who goes “why didn’t he just call the police” because it’s a book, sir. It would be a very short book if on page 4 he called about the weird noises in the attic
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@stepha_henson It's just nonsense and needs to be ignored. Probably said out of jealousy that you are doing something the other person dares not even attempt.
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“Why, at your age, do you think you can become some real author?”
Not gonna lie guys, that one stung.
Yes, a real comment - in real life, not just online …. but to my face.
It’s not pretty sometimes when you chase a dream.
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It’s 2086.
You don’t need to work. No one does. AI drives cars and trains, robots do maintenance and care work, buildings are laser printed. We worship celebrities not for beauty, because AI means plastic surgery costs pennies and medication solves obesity and muscle growth, but for extreme creativity or interesting interiority. We don’t live in palaces but everything is tidy, clean, and organised for sustainability and quality of life.
What do you do all day, and is it bearable?
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@AuthorGoodwin Publishing is 90% about patience, lol. Particularly when you're waiting for ratings or reviews, orders, etc. You will get used to it eventually...
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Done.
Masters of Magic ebook uploaded to KDP!
But no pre-orders. 🙁
Patience is key. If only I had any...
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I named one of my nastiest characters after a girl who was mean to me at school.
Have you ever got revenge on someone in your stories?
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@MadelaineLucyH I have lots of conversations with my cat. No idea what she's saying... however she's very talkative.
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If you don’t talk to your cat like the creepiest weirdo at a nightclub I don’t trust you
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@AuthorGoodwin Not everyone will start at the first book in any case. Some will jump in at the latest one and go backwards if they like the series. Also, stop worrying. Just keep promoting your books.
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My 6th book is definitely my best.
In fact, as you go through my series, they get better with each successive novel, imho.
How do I tempt people into my series when the one where they'd start is the weakest?
Stumped.
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Convince me to buy your book by showing me your pet.
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@AuthorGoodwin Looks fine. Blurbs aren't easy to write. You can always change it, if it doesn't bite.
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Does this blurb make you want to read the book?
Or does it need a re-write?
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@sciencegirl I don't want to walk around looking like a Walrus for one thing.
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Guys,
what’s stopping you having a moustache like this
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@AuthorGoodwin Use them where appropriate. You can't eliminate words like that entirely. Sometimes we overuse words, but I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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It seems my editor has a phobia of 'but' and 'just'.
Sure, sometimes they can be axed, but the have a place, right?
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Turned up at Z station at 5.30am to avoid Q like yesterday & someone is hoarding diesel somewhere.
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How to misinterpret historical texts in one easy lesson
The statement comes from Magna Carta (1215), one of the foundational documents of English (and later British) law. Specifically, it appears in Clause 54 of the original Magna Carta (Latin: "Nulla vidua distringatur ad nubendum vel maritandum") and is carried forward in later reissues (e.g., 1225 version, which became permanent law).
The actual text (translated from Latin) states:
"No widow shall be forced to marry so long as she wishes to remain without a husband; provided always that she gives security that she will not marry without our consent, if she holds of us, or without the consent of whoever of whom she holds, if she holds of another."
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This is SUCH revisionism I spat out my tea. In Saxon Britain;
- a man could have as many female slaves as he wanted and they would be his property
- a man could send his infant daughter to become a nun and forcibly commit her to celibacy for life
- a man could LEGALLY rape his wife
- a man could LEGALLY beat his wife/daughter if he didn't seriously main or kill her
- Many, many women were forced to marry!! (Aethelreda)
Now I get it! Stuff like this can make you have good feefees, because you are a white boy who is a good white boy, and you've never done a sexism so obviously that's a 'forrin' thing, but stop absorbing lies.
Proudofus.uk@ProudofusUK
"No woman or maiden shall be forced to marry a man whom she dislikes." That's not a modern law. That was written in England 🏴 over a thousand years ago. Anglo-Saxon women had more legal rights than your great-grandmother. On the same island. A thousand years earlier. 🔑 She could own land. In her own name. Buy it. Sell it. Leave it to whoever she chose. No permission needed. Not from her husband. Not from her father. Not from anyone. She could run a business. She could stand in an open-air court, raise her hand in oath, and the law would hear her the same as any man. ⚖️ On the morning after her wedding, her husband owed her a gift. Land. Money. Property. It was called the Morgengifu, the morning gift. It wasn't symbolic. It was legally binding. And it was hers. Not jointly owned. Not held in trust. Hers. Through everything. 💍 A woman called Wynflaed owned seven estates across four counties, her will still survives. Cynethryth, wife of King Offa, struck coins bearing her own name and face. The only Anglo-Saxon queen known to have done it. The coins are still in museum collections. 🪙 Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, built ten fortified towns and led armies in battle. In the tenth century. ⚔️ While most of Europe treated women as property, this island wrote their rights into law. 🇬🇧 Then the Normans came. 1066. And they took all of it away. Every. Single. Right. 🚫 A married woman's property became her husband's. She couldn't own land. Couldn't sign a contract. Couldn't keep her own wages. Under the doctrine of coverture, her legal identity was absorbed into his. Bracton wrote it plainly: "husband and wife are one person, being one flesh and one blood." In the eyes of the law, she didn't exist. For over eight hundred years. Let that satisfy. Eight. Hundred. Years. In 1882, the Married Women's Property Act gave a married woman the right to own property, keep her earnings, and exist as a separate legal person. 📜 But Britain didn't invent those rights in 1882. It restored them. Rights that Anglo-Saxon women had exercised a thousand years before. On the same island, under the same sky, in a language that became the one you're reading now. 🏴 This island forgot once. We won't let it forget again. Happy Mother's Day ❤️ Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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What I don't get is the plethora of influencer couple accounts that seem to get their likes from what would otherwise be considered domestic abuse. So, because it's supposed to be funny, it suddenly isn't abusive behaviour to be hitting each other, etc.? That's just normalising abuse.
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“It’s just a joke” doesn’t mean it says nothing about a darker side of culture.
Jokes work because the audience recognises the premise. If the premise is “wife hits husband”, it means we have socially agreed that it is amusing and humorous.
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@MadelaineLucyH I think 10k is a rather paltry sum for having to do something that distasteful.
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£10,000, but you have to introduce an idiot from the manosphere to your parents as your date and rigorously defend his views for the entire evening
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