kate o'd

Writer • she/her • #LoveOzYA • opinions my own, if that

[kate o'd @readingkate]

@heawood 🩷 and here I go surprise weeping on the train

[kate o'd @readingkate]

@JasperPeachSays I managed a bookshop and ran a bunch of YA book events, so knew the industry & had made connections. When I had a ms ready to submit I knew which publisher it might work for and was able to submit directly to her

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@paulwiggins Paul I’m really just here to laugh at myself there’s no problem to solve

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making so many friends at work by being insistent to the point of pedantic about using en dashes

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@paulwiggins there’s an admirable (?!) dedication to the hyphen-only life sometimes. They laugh in the face of the style guide[spaced en rule]laugh I tell you

[kate o'd @readingkate]

@reddotscribble

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@reddotscribble because we’re entirely web & socials it’s feeling hazy about whether it’s a fight to keep fighting or not. But surely, surely we can keep the spanning dash right? Right? At least?!

[kate o'd @readingkate]

@_budgie @LaurenThemself yesssss 😑and i swear you used to be able to press enter/return to post the comment. the ole shift+return is really slowing me down

[kate o'd @readingkate]

@_budgie The Lucksmiths, Jebediah, The Whitlams, The Waifs, The Living End, Killing Heidi, i guess powderfinger

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@nicolasantilli fantastico!

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@radiomoderation (Or maybe I just read the Watch Tower? Memory she be strange. But still, Text Classics = the best proofreading job around)

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@radiomoderation I got to proofread a bunch of the Text Classics, including The Watch Tower, and it remains one of the best jobs I’ve ever taken!

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@bhakthi especially the “spontenous” i’m sure 😂

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[Camilla Elworthy @CamillaElworthy]

How to be stopped in your tracks when on a moving train. #PoemsOnTheUnderground

[kate o'd @readingkate]

@LaraCainGray @sophiebeerdraws Kind of piece of stringy, in a way. Depends if printing in aus or elsewhere, full colour or not, HB or paperback etc

All I know is picture books take longer than you think/want, especially if you don’t want to/can’t afford to airfreight advances for sell-in

[kate o'd @readingkate]

Doing my best @_budgie but WHO KNOWS how long since I spilled this coffee on moi-self

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@malsieecdonald @lucksmithslyric yessss

[kate o'd @readingkate]

@lucksmithslyric I’ve still got the alarm clock that you bought me for my birthday / and I wake up at 9 / there’s no present like the time