Kali Napier

Conducting my own poll here. Whenever I tweet about Voting Yes in the Voice Referendum I get hundreds of negative replies. But loads more likes. So I’m gonna turn off the replies and simply ask you to give this tweet a like if you’re gonna vote yes. Over to you. Feel free to RT

disproportionate torso to leg ratio caused by low rise pants

@PicturesFoIder 27 + 8 = 35 35 + 40 = 75

How do you do it?

@MelanieTait I wrote 2.5 novel-length mss (& 1 novella) in the 2 years I was on the single-parent pension. After that, productivity and creativity dropped way off. The hustle and juggle of needing $$$.

@oldlillipilli Wow if that isn't an argument for an artist wage I don't know what is.

🧵: 👩🏼‍💻 A friend of mine doing a Masters in Creative Writing at a Big Australian University was told by three separate visiting lecturers of esteem the only way to have a career as a writer in 2023 is to have a rich partner. I think about this daily. Sometimes hourly!

Today marks the 1-year anniversary of meeting this most marvellous person, following ghostly taps at my door. I cannot begin to tell you all the ways my life has magically transformed. ✨ If you need a Word Witch, a WayShower, or Depth Worker, see Jodi. jodicleghorn.com

This is how jeans get distressed. You see the mask, the goggles, and yet, this worker is probably still breathing in enough of those tiny fibers to permanently damage their lungs. If only there was a way to get holes in jeans without harming someone in the process…

@wisebeck Best of luck with your recovery, Beck. Hoping you're back to toast soon 😀

I am a bit behind on my reading. Just found out GoodReads has a new book page format, and I HATE it. Completely unusable and bothering me greatly.

I'm on Hive as @kalinapier - I promise to post there as infrequently as I do here.

If tea spread to your country by sea you call it tea, if it spread by land you call it chai. This is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation "te", whereas Mandarin uses "chá"

@incrediblemelk French, when the teacher came in I was sent outside before the lesson even started. Other subjects, when I actually did something wrong (adult ADHD diagnosis), I sat outside the Headmistress's office. Minimum three times a week. Multiple detentions & excluded from excursions

Hey did anyone else go to a primary school where a punishment for some minor disciplinary infraction was that you had to go and stand outside by yourself?

@BrookeBrannon One that comes to mind is Link's "The White Cat's Divorce"

@lindyryanwrites I’m trying to think if Kelly Link did any remakes, but I think she’s pure original

@BenLeighHobson I bet! Such a vibe

@BenLeighHobson Fabulous cover, Ben!!!!

@TheNDM Hooray!!!! This is wonderful news, Imbi. Very, very happy for you!!!!

I'm thrilled to announce I'll be having another book baby in early 2024, thanks to @MeredithCurnow, @PenguinBooksAus and my agent Jane Novak. Details are forthcoming, but for now, let's just say that it has "something to do with postcards" and I could not be happier.

On this week's podcast: @AngelaSlatter on how she developed her author career and her latest novel 'The Path of Thorns' (@newsouthbooksau). Publishers who accept unsolicited submissions – and how to make sure your manuscript is ready! Listen: apple.co/3xS8dgx

@JenBowden12 Are you from WA? I've been in Brisbane 14 years and still miss the ocean every single day. Still miss the sunset. Still miss breathing without drowning.

@m_riwoe Amazing!!!! Congratulations, Mirandi 🌟

I am incredibly grateful to receive this year’s Author Fellowship for fiction 💞 Thank you so much @CopyrightAgency I’d better get to work!

@KJHollands Congratulations, Karen!

We’re not living with Covid, we’re ignoring it. Like we live with domestic violence, inequality, crumbling public infrastructure, and runaway climate change.