I'm always surprised that she's published by Picador.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:40, 4 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Is that a pokemon?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:42, Reply)

no, it's a pretension

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:43, Reply)

me too
i mean, she didn't sell any copies at all, so therefore made them no money. and money isn't the point of publishing at all, because it isn't a business like any other business.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:43, Reply)

I mean that they generally publish literary fiction rather than chicktion

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:46, Reply)

i know
so imagine this, right, you get this popular column, and the possibility of publishing it in book form, and it's clearly going to be a best seller and make a lot of money, but it's just not quite right genre. so you'll let penguin have this one, eh?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:47, Reply)

I know
who would have thought that mounted bull fighting would have such a diverse range
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:56, Reply)

I'm reading Draclier at the moment.
It's difficult to get Keanu bloody Reeve's voice out of my head when doing so, though.

"I kneow whare the barstard slips!"
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:58, Reply)

ah, Dracula, literary masterpiece but shockingly written.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 10:32, Reply)