My new ebook From Manuscript to Publication is out now - a guide to editing, publishing pathways, costs, platforms, and how to avoid common pitfalls. If you’re a writer wondering “what happens next?”, this is for you.
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@luciemorrismarr If my husband was left with this, a few people might get cash and that’s it - no Christmas tree, no decorations, no cards, no wrapping, no presents for most, I generally don’t get one either. What he does do is create a beautiful back garden haven with bar and lots of alcohol…
My Sunday Substack post on the approach of summer in the southern hemisphere. Follow over on Substack https://t.co/9ejVpvSP28
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❤️SHE MATTERS: ANNETTE BRENNAN!❤️
Annette Brennan was many things - a devoted teacher, a kind soul, an amazing human - a woman who deserved to live.
She was not -as some media outlets insisted - a wheelie bin. It's been so disheartening and enraging to watch headline writers call the callous killing and dumping of 67-year-old Annette as a 'wheelie bin murder'. Reducing women to objects is par for the course in media and I'm sick of it.
Annette is the 48th of 49 Australian women killed this year.
She was allegedly murdered between June 23 and July 2 at her home in Coolaroo, Victoria. A male known to her was charged overnight with Annette's murder. It's alleged the male ended her life, placed her in a recycling bin and left her body to be picked up by waste collectors. She was ultimately found in a recycling plant in Melbourne.
Annette - an English language teacher - had moved into her home just months ago. It's believed the male was her new housemate.
While a former student has spoken to the media about the woman she described as a 'second mum', there's been almost no outrage over Annette's death and certainly no public outpourings of grief. As is almost always the case, the older the murdered woman the more invisible she is. I hope Annette matters to you - as she matters to me.
RIP ANNETTE BRENNAN! ❤️
❤️Australian Femicide Watch: https://t.co/QJ2OuxMB8C
❤️The Memorial to Women and Children Lost to Violence: https://t.co/QJ2OuxMB8C
❤️The Australian Femicide & Child Death Map: https://t.co/HUEd7YnyWr
I document ALL unlawful deaths of women and children, regardless of perpetrator gender or relationship between the person killed and the accused. This means not every death is due to domestic and family violence. Australians are also killed by strangers, friends, colleagues, neighbours and other people known to them.
IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW NEEDS HELP PLEASE CALL:
❤️1800 Respect National Helpline: 1800 737 732
❤️Women's Crisis Line: 1800 811 811
❤️Men's Referral Service: 1300 766 491
❤️Mensline: 1300 789 978
❤️Lifeline (24 hours): 131 114
Julian Assange boards flight at London Stansted Airport at 5PM (BST) Monday June 24th. This is for everyone who worked for his freedom: thank you.
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It's beyond words to have to report the killing of another woman by another cowardly violence brute today.
WA Police have confirmed a man was responsible for the slaughter of two women in Floreat, WA, on Friday afternoon. The second woman passed away in hospital overnight. The first woman died at the scene. The second woman is the 38th woman killed this year. The other woman is the 37th (see previous post). The coward ended his own life. It's believed the victims are a mum and her adult daughter. Of the 38 women killed this year, 37 have been lost to acts of male violence. ❤️
The police say this is not a domestic violence issue. Two women murdered by an ex looking for his exwife - if that is not dv, wtf is? #domesticviolence#perth
“They are out there for the right reasons… they are out there not because they are ‘pro-Hamas.' They are out there because they are outraged by what the Israeli government is doing in Gaza.”
@SenSanders discusses the student anti-war protests sweeping colleges in America.
Watch our full interview.