Russ in Cheshire

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Even better, stick a fake beard and tit hipster glasses on James Corden, turn it into the least sexy miniseries to ever be produced.

Russ and the Cheshire: The adventures of a 50-something blogger looking for love and minge. Episode one - Russ ponders why all his female lovers seem lifeless and unenthusiastic in bed.
 
Mr Krabs said:
Even better, stick a fake beard and tit hipster glasses on James Corden, turn it into the least sexy miniseries to ever be produced.

Russ and the Cheshire: The adventures of a 50-something blogger looking for love and minge. Episode one - Russ ponders why all his female lovers seem lifeless and unenthusiastic in bed.
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This comes under "don't give James Corden ideas".
 
so, the book launch is russ as uncle knobhead, complete with cream slip-ons, in a room above a pub. maybe tan can come and play the part of wife of uncle knobhead

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Winthropp Tuesday said:
Christ, he really thought that once the book was published he’d be rich beyond his wildest dreams and able to retire, didn’t he? “My kind of day”features in the lefty papers…everyone clamouring for interviews… :ROFLMAO: instead he’s giving it some whinge on Mastodon. Which is a sentence I didn’t think I’d write today…
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He seems befuddled by capitalism, doesn't he?

People who think you get "rich, rich, I tells ya, rich!" from publishing a book are a special sort.

Livia Fantasy said:
Something doesn't sit right about his book launch.

His "publishers" are putting on an event are they? Unbound are a crowd-funding platform to deliver a product, they certainly don't host launch events. Russ has hired a room and wants you to go. At £15 a pop (plus Eventbrite fees) at The Grafton in Kentish Town, so one assumes he's hired the upstairs (100 capacity, 40 seated). Typical cost of hiring the room exclusively in an evening (6 - close) is £600 inc VAT, conveniently 40 x £15.

Doesn't sound like publishers putting on a launch to me. Captain Mingebeard has hired a room to stroke his vanity and everyone else can pay for it.
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Yeah--launch parties don't usually charge for admission. Poor fucker can't get attention unless he pays. Story of his life.
 
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CrackingOwlSanctuary said:
I think a lot of these not even Z list social media grifters are very deluded when it comes to creative success vs financial success. Even supremely talented people have to keep grinding, and they don't necessarily earn millions and live in the lap of luxury. My next door neighbour is an amazing artist, he does well enough from it to paint full time but I wouldn't say I live in a particularly desirable area. I have met many talented musicians in my life due to my dad's career path and very few of them are able to sustain themselves purely on their earnings from music.

There is a writer from ny home town who's debut fiction novel won awards but he still has to get up early before work to fit his writing in. Not sure why Russ thinks he should be better rewarded than those people for essentially riffing the same tit over and over.
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Absolutely this. You’d be surprised how many people I worked with in call centres, waiting tables etc that were “names” friends of mine had actually heard of.
 
Livia Fantasy said:
Something doesn't sit right about his book launch.

His "publishers" are putting on an event are they? Unbound are a crowd-funding platform to deliver a product, they certainly don't host launch events. Russ has hired a room and wants you to go. At £15 a pop (plus Eventbrite fees) at The Grafton in Kentish Town, so one assumes he's hired the upstairs (100 capacity, 40 seated). Typical cost of hiring the room exclusively in an evening (6 - close) is £600 inc VAT, conveniently 40 x £15.

Doesn't sound like publishers putting on a launch to me. Captain Mingebeard has hired a room to stroke his vanity and everyone else can pay for it.
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I've funded a number of books through Unbound and sometimes one of the rewards is a pair of tickets to the launch party, if you fund the book to that level. If I'd funded to that level I never had to pay extra, just say I was coming, so they could manage the numbers, and the party was specific to people who had funded the book to that level, not an open invitation to everyone they follow on Twitter.
 
Witchfinder Sargeant said:
Here we go again
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Maelstrom of minge! Maelstrom of minge! New book title for Russ. Err sorry for that outburst. Maelstrom is such a good word I didn't want to waste it.

The previous book didn't bring in enough money, so now he's trying with a second. That plan doesn't make a whole lot of sense considering he's chosen the same method of publication & the same company. 🤨 Why?

I also winced at ''needless editors''. 😬 I'd say editors are a pretty important part of the publishing industry!
 
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