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@Philip_Ellis

Writer. King of Takes. Weekend Editor . He/him.

Birmingham, UK
freelancephilip.co.uk
Joined December 2010
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    4 hours ago

    Tweeting this from the back of a van with a bag over my head as I too have just been acquired by Penguin Random House

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    10 hours ago

    Last month, I felt lower than I’d felt in a long time. I could feel myself slipping into a dark place, constantly anxious and overwhelmingly sad. Turns out, I had COVID-19. I talked about my mental health recovery with for :

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  3. 5 hours ago

    You: Fuck 2020, bring on 2021! COVID a minute after midnight on New Year’s Eve:

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  4. 7 hours ago

    My younger self would be absolutely furious to learn that healthy meals, regular exercise and a sensible bedtime are all things I fucking love now.

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    10 hours ago

    We're looking for a new Editorial Assistant to work across literary fiction and non-fiction in our Viking team. Details here:

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  6. 15 hours ago

    This has changed my life 🖖🏻

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  7. 15 hours ago

    I for one think ‘tis most dignified and noble to jot down my stray thoughts and musings in the Notes app whilst perched upon the loo

    Writing is a career with very little dignity or nobility and it is so funny when people act otherwise, like keeping writing those silly little words man, I will too
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  8. 17 hours ago

    Speaking openly about this kind of pain makes Meghan Markle even more vulnerable to the press who have hounded her for the last few years. To do so anyway, knowing that her story might help others, makes her incredibly brave.

    In Opinion "I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second," Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, writes.
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    Nov 24

    It’ll cost you $0 to retweet my work, but my DMs are open in case you need my address to send me some diamonds or something.

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    Nov 23

    LOOKING FOR: WOC or non-binary POC writers, who don't live in Manchester or London, for writing opportunities, Doesn't matter if you've never had a byline before. Either email me (moya@gal-dem.com) or tag yourselves/others under this tweet.

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    18 hours ago

    Charles Manson was 5’2

    "It does beggar belief that a woman who is barely more than 5ft tall managed to terrorise all those 6ft 3in public school mandarins," writes
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  12. 17 hours ago

    Poe Dameron? Oh, go on then...

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  13. Nov 24

    Ready Player One gave us 300+ pages of a white guy listing movie references. Ready Player Two makes him a multi-billionaire.

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  14. Nov 24

    I keep seeing this promotional tweet and it’s like.... yes? I know?? It’s quite literally all I’ve been listening to for months now?!

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  15. Nov 24

    I've stopped being the kind of person who shits on their hometown ever since I moved back in with my parents during the pandemic and it saved me from losing my actual mind, but you still couldn't pay me to hang out with some of the guys I went to school with.

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  16. Nov 24

    "I can't believe it's been more than a decade since you ate that condom on a dare either, yeah it's crazy... sorry, I'd love to meet up to drink MD2020 and talk about how nothing in your life has gone right since your very first breakup but that sounds even worse than COVID"

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  17. Nov 24

    One bright side to all of the pandemic-related restrictions this holiday season is having a handy excuse to not meet any of the people you knew when you were a teenager for a drink.

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  18. Nov 24

    I just imagine this is what every conversation is like when you’re in a heterosexual relationship

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    This is me talking to the only person at the bar, not realizing he’s wasted.
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  19. Nov 24

    Is there a YA novel set in the world of k-pop? I want to read about the makeovers, rivalries and romances that happen when someone is plucked from obscurity and sent to the industry’s starmaking boot camp.

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  20. Nov 24

    I’m really enjoying that Netflix holiday movies such as The Princess Switch and A New York Christmas Wedding are drawing on the same themes of the classic It’s A Wonderful Life. Namely, the existential horror brought on by the existence of multiple timelines and doppelgängers.

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