It’s a new soundtrack 💙 Here are the back covers and vault track titles for 1989 (my version) I can’t wait for this one to be out, seriously. Thank you for playing along, sleuthing, puzzling and making these reveals so much chaotic fun (which is the best kind of fun, after all 😜)
The Eras Tour has been the most meaningful, electric experience of my life so far and I’m overjoyed to tell you that it’ll be coming to the big screen soon 😆 Starting Oct 13th you’ll be able to experience the concert film in theaters in North America! Tickets are on sale now at taylor.lnk.to/TSTheErasTourFilm. Eras attire, friendship bracelets, singing and dancing encouraged 🫶 1, 2, 3 LGB!!!! (iykyk)
This is super important! The information that YOU give to this inquiry will inform both the state and federal government about just how dire the situation is and help it understand how it needs to do more to fix the rental crisis in Australia.
my family is based in Oahu, but i consider all the islands my home even though i physically haven’t stepped foot on them before. seeing all the homes and history and memories being lost in this hurts.
if you are unable to donate, don’t feel guilty—doing things like spreading the word and making people aware of the situation helps as well. thank you for whatever you can do! mahalo
UPDATE: removed Maui Mutual Aid Fund for now because upon further research using the charity checking sites provided by this gov site, it doesn’t appear in results unlike the others listed. so i advise caution for now if you decide to donate there! they may still be legitimate, but i want to exercise caution.
Hope It’s all right to add a few more to the list.
University of Hawaii Foundation : Provides help to students, staff, and faculty the UHMC campus (especially when the Fall semester is starting in two weeks)
‘Āina Momona : (goes towards the Hawaii Community Foundation Maui County Strong Fund)
Some local Hawai’i artists are also donating 100% of their sales this week to Maui relief. (These are only the ones I know of offhand) Geoffrey Siu (creator of Gentlemons/Pokema’ams and other original art) JimmyxSparrow (Wide variety of art, does fusions of Pokemon and Hawaiian culture) Laulima (Native Hawaiian flora and fauna pins and so on)
Any help is definitely welcomed because many locals there are displaced and are now homeless. With cell service down back on Tuesday and were last told to stay in place, many had to quickly evacuate with just their clothes on their back and nothing else.
thank you so much for the additions!!! you did my work for me this evening.
I find it personally offensive how many bad writers can get published so easily.
I used to find it reassuring, like, “Haha, wow, if THIS can get published…” but now I take it to mean “It doesn’t matter if your book is good or not, all that matters is if you’re in the right social circles (and you’re not)”
As someone who used to acquire for an indie publisher … it sucks on the other end, too. We don’t WANT to work on shitty books with shitty writing. But bossman wants to make money, and shitty writer has marketing clout/knows the right people/is already published (even if it’s only online/ebook).
I used to read the most AMAZING submissions I’d be forced to pass on. Like, there was one, a literary fantasy featuring a bi deaf protagonist who learns how to navigate a spectrum of relationships while discovering herself (I don’t want to give too many details out of respect to the author/don’t want her concept stolen) and I couldn’t get it acquired no matter how thorough my proposal and marketing plan was because she was a debut author with fewer than 10k Twitter followers and we needed that advance money for another Fifty Shades knockoff (this was a few years ago lol).
BUT PLEASE DON’T LET THAT DISCOURAGE YOU! If you’re a writer, and you’re trying to get published, don’t give up!! If your first novel isn’t getting traction with either a house or agency, publish it yourself on amazon. Get that “debut” moniker away from your name. Prove you can sell your shit and keep working.
A good agent will work with you to come up with a marketing/publicity proposal. That will be huge in getting houses to notice your work - makes the acquisitions team’s job easier as they can point to it and tell bossman “we have a plan”. Look online for titles that have high ratings/are on the NYT list that can be compared to yours. That helps give acquisitions an idea of what they’re getting into - and how to represent your book to their ED/publisher.
A good agent will also help you target editors/imprints whose lists match your book, increasing your odds of getting positive feedback or even constructive feedback. If I had a submission that just wasn’t quite ready for publication, I’d give detailed notes of what I wanted and ask them to revise and resubmit.
Keep writing! Even if a book isn’t picked up, start your next. It’s so attractive to see an author with several unpublished works ready to be polished if you already like the work that’s submitted. And more writing only refines your skills.
Yes, bad writers get published. And too many good writers, even when published, go unrecognized (if you like southern gothic fiction a la Where the Crawdads Sing, go read The Past is Never, which came out four months earlier and got NO national attention but is BEAUTIFUL). Be such a good writer that you break those odds.
Because you can. I’ve read your stuff on Tumblr. On Ao3. On Fanfiction.net. On Wattpad. You can do it.
