Marketing I have read the marketing emails sent to my inbox. They were intended to promotesalesMother’s Day. Forgive me they were pernicious. Saccharine. Leaving me unimpressed, and so cold.
With apologies to William Carlos Williams for using his poem, you know the one about the plums.
Dedicated to everyone who ever endured this day to celebrate mothers, when so many of us do not have mothers, are not mothers, have lost mothers, or can’t, or shouldn’t have to, in any way partake in the relentless commercialisation of it all.
Steady as she goes – the 2022 writing update
Rejections: 116
Pending: 66
Acceptances by publisher: 20
Acceptances by work: 24
Published: 21
Writing Bec 