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Melinda Salisbury
@MESalisbury
Athos in the streets. Aramis in the sheets. Porthos in the tweets.
Authorshe/herlinktr.ee/melsalisburyJoined March 2009

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Yearning for one of those niche collectible magazines that are 99p for the first month and £500 for each subsequent issue, and comes with a build-a-collection of 'free' stuff before vanishing from the shops by June
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Just to keep you all appraised of my citrus situation, I've now moved on from clementines to blood oranges, and I think the God of Blood Oranges loves me, too
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Here is my favourite thing about writing: the little breadcrumbs you unknowingly leave for yourself, so when you get to a sticky part, and you think 'oh no, now this needs...' you've already laid the trail; you just have to go back and follow it
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It seems Twitter is no longer showing me dms, and I just found a whole bunch when I went to send one, so that's a little surprise treat I probably could have lived without
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So, if you like joy, and warm, gentle, heartfelt things, and beautifully shot and scripted TV shows about food, friendships, and love, then watch The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House on Netflix. And if you don't like those things, get help x
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Hard to imagine anything is going to be better televisually this year than watching Momoko training the maiko to be zombies in episode eight of The Makanai
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I started watching The Makanai on Netflix while I was cooking, and it is the nicest, warmest, sweetest show, but it also made me desperate to visit Japan, so now I'm manifesting a Japanese book deal in the hope they invite me over, and I can explore
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It was children who taught me every swear word I know, so?
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Bestselling author Emma Straub had two book events canceled in Texas schools, after some discovered she used profanity on social media cnn.it/3QSVnqy
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There should be one month a year when no new books are published, so people have chance to catch up with themselves. I think August would be the best choice
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I slept with my best friend's boyfriend, and she wished me dead, which would be bad enough, except I think she might be the Queen of Hades, and oh, guess where I ended up...
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pitch your book BUT NOT from the protagonist’s pov. Any other perspective. Just not the protagonist 👀♥️
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How else do you explain how every single clementine I've eaten since November (and it's a lot) has been perfectly, dreamily sweet and juicy, even the ones I put in the fridge while I was away for a month in the hope they'd still be edible when I got back?
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I have never been so jealous of a book before. My teenage dream was to go to New Orleans, smoke clove cigarettes, drink red wine,and talk to ghosts
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Replying to @MESalisbury
Enjoying the book in New Orleans. Took Corey out for a snack and a pint at Cafe Maspero.
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This is just beautiful
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I wrote about orcas with salmon hats and cultures in the sea for this wonderful issue of @Perspective_tw ,alongside beautiful words from @mslucycooke @PhilipPullman @GeorgeMonbiot and more perspectivemag.co.uk/talking-to-ani
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That was the last time I was carefree. My last ~technically normal day I had was probably March 14th, at my book launch in London. Me and my friends got drinks after, but the specter of Covid was there, and it wasn't normal at all. It felt like the end of the world
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February 29th. I was determined to make the most of Leap Day, so I went on a 36-hour trip to Brussels. I ate crepes, drank beer, took photos - all the usual tourist things. It was on the train home, reading the news, I realized I probably wouldn't get to travel again for a while
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asked this before, but it's something I find interesting: what do you consider last "normal day" in 2020 before the pandemic really started impacting you personally? what did you do?
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Auguries and portents: I just found an UNTOUCHED, UNMARKED PAGE in my copyedits, and if I rummage around in the entrails of what that means, I predict a beautiful week full of magic and good things
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I despise Airbnb for this reason and haven't stayed in a whole or sole-house one since 2017. All the ire that landlords get should be heaped 10-fold on people who buy properties solely to rent them out as holiday lets, especially those who own multiple ones
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I live in a Cornish seaside village + one local guy owns many @AirBnBs starting from £200 a night. Yet there's a single mum – who works full-time – living in a tent behind the churchyard, while her 3 kids stay at their grandparents' 1-bedroom council flat.
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