Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!

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Academic, fourth class. Publishing Lecturer at the University of Stirling. Researcher of smartphone storytelling. Author of books on Paris, London, Scotland, cemeteries, chess, & dragons. Erstwhile doer of other things. Often mediocre. He/Him

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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!@pressfuturist· Jul 12

You’d think Pickford should have got his hand to a ball that size. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Weird photo of Pickford watching as the ball (out of picture) goes in, except for the fact that a huge ball the size of his leg is in the picture behind him.

Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!@pressfuturist· Jul 11

Nervous.

Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!@pressfuturist· Jul 11

Today’s purchases from Inverness.

Ten second-hand books (including works by Calvino, Wodehouse, and Orwell) and a box set of Season four of The Avengers.

Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!@pressfuturist· Jul 11

Shelter and sustenance.

Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!@pressfuturist· Jul 6

Ecstatic.

Fifty-something man in dressing-gown and England top, looking very happy.

Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!@pressfuturist· Jul 5

Their proofreading of OCRed pre-digital books is exceedingly poor: this one is understandable – an old-school a does look rather like an e – but also very on the nose.

From a Penguin reference book, “Types of Grammer”.

Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!@pressfuturist· Jul 1

Match ready.

Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!@pressfuturist· Jul 1

Are you the parent/guardian of children aged 3-7? Or a childcare professional working with children that age? Could you spare 10-15 mins for a survey on picture books depicting LGBTQ+ identities and non-traditional families, to help Deanna with her dissertation research, please? lnkd.in/e9q2B9KW

CALL FOR SURVEY PARTICIPANTS
5-10 minutes
Are you:
A parent/guardian of a child under 7, a childcare professional OR an education professional for children under 7?

We're seeking participants for a survey on attitudes towards LGBTQ+ representation in children’s books.

This research will inform recommendations to UK publishers on
the most responsible way to publish stories featuring LGBTQ+ identities

This survey is being conducted by Deanna Proctor, a postgraduate at the University of Stirling, as part of the MLit Publishing Studies dissertation.

Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!@pressfuturist· Jun 29

Do you work in Trade Publishing in Ireland or the UK? Would you be able to spare ten minutes to share your thoughts on how AI is affecting you, please, to help our superb student Dearbhla Brady with her dissertation? Thank you! (Please share too!) lnkd.in/e_bH3m8y

“Would you like to tell us your thoughts on Artificial Intelligence in the Publishing Industry?
Please follow the link or OR code to take part in a survey!
All participants will remain entirely anonymously.
This dissertation is the project of a student of the MLitt Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland.”

Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!@pressfuturist· Jun 27

Listening to World in Motion ahead of the game, ready to rap along with John Barnes.

Fifty-something man in an England shirt, smiling.

Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!@pressfuturist· Jun 26

Sheeting down.

Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!@pressfuturist· Jun 25

Remembering my visit to Dachau, fifteen years ago today: utterly chilling.

Grass and a ditch, seen through a barbed wire gate.

Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache!@pressfuturist· Jun 24

Do you read romance or “spicy” books? Could you spare a few minutes, please, to help our excellent student Zoe Coulahan with her dissertation survey? (Feel free to share, too — thanks!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...