it was a 1L juice kitchen keri premium tomato juice currently on special at countdown with a 4 star health rating that was showered on a person at the park yesterday, in part causing them to flee the country entirely. Not a soup! Not a sauce! Facts are facts aotearoa
shout out to my mum for coming to the protest, then going to bunnings and complaining that scrub mommy and daddy should really be ‘scrub parent’ and then giving $10 to the gay rugby fundraiser
I understand that it's really hard for us people trapped in auckland to not accidentally go on holiday to wānaka at the moment, because of the seductive allure of the wānaka millennium history walk. luckily I can provide these images to tide over the insatiable lust until level 2
the main thing I've learned on holiday is that in the regions there comes a time in every man's life when he decides what kind of straw hat guy he's going to be
ah my hot writing tips have been published on the ockhams facebook if you want to read some writing tips from someone who recently fell off a footstool 💫
stop tweeting that poets are the best novelists it’s causing a plague of novels that say stuff like he brought the macaroni to his lips, gumming hastily at the rubbery flub of it, the pull of the carbs clawing like Jeremiah in the dank chlorinated haze of the all-gender vestiaire
I am very disheartened over today's Spinoff essay that contains many outdated, damaging and offensive stereotypes of autism. I won't link because it is my sincere hope that no undiagnosed person reads it and is convinced they aren't 'bad' enough to be autistic.
david seymour quoting romeo and juliet with ‘two parties both alike in dignity’?? are he and luxon going to kiss?? and then die due to a misunderstanding?? is this a scrapped political spoof from a forgotten university law revue??
men are so optimistic, thousands of them have woken up every day for hundreds of years believing that they’re going to be the first ever one to get wāhine māori to shut up and do what they want
ANNOUNCEMENT: I have decided to give up on writing to pursue my true ambition of being hot full time and securing a brand deal with Nippy's. This is not about the Landfall review that said I'm annoying. It's all about the delicious combination of milk and sugar that is Nippy's.
Sorry to do a rare sincere tweet but thank you so much to everyone who came to me and
@PipAdam
’s event last night, it means a lot to me that people would show up to an event that was just two novelists talking about novels who didn’t have new books out and it wasn’t even free
I am grateful that my gay book has been nominated for the Wattie Book of the Year Award, and that the judges felt differently from my gran who sent her unfinished copy to a relative in the UK who turned out to have died
my least favourite thing about daily life in nz is how many old white people snap ‘what’s so funny’ at you for laughing or smiling in public, if you hate the sound of joy get the fuck out of the south pacific
so jealous of this snake keeper who opened the floor to questions and got asked questions about snakes, instead of like at a writers festival where you get asked to absolve the audience of racism and then hear a lengthy comment about how things aren’t like they used to be
personally if I were a white man in one of the world’s safest countries I would not be publicly arguing that the slogan of group currently being slaughtered en masse needs to be toned down for semantic reasons
I stand by what I said last night that I am very concerned about the future of the novel in nz, I do not know why new writers would choose to pursue this time-consuming and taxing form that does not generate a liveable income in a generally hostile society
I wrote this when I was sick and sad about all the gleeful northern hemisphere posts about the days getting longer because I felt like the empire countries were trying to colonise the sun away from us bon appetit
“I kept receiving the same feedback: that the novel was good, but it was such a shame that I had written it in a way that was so specific to New Zealand.”
@rebeccakreilly
on the dominance of American culture in publishing.
anyway sorry for taking up space, sorry for writing a thread and I hope that the extremely limited funding for literary reviews can be used in future for reviewing new books that need publicity instead of trying to tall poppy me! many thanks, rebecca k reilly (born 1991)
I will continue to try to write novels that the majority of readers can find some joy in, and to depict queer, nd and indigenous people not being abused and suffering but rather having a mostly okay time, for respite from the horrible real world
sorry to do a public post about mental health but I am recovering from a breakdown atm after several months of worsening burnout, which for me means not being able to move or really talk or think or anything. it's cringe and it sucks!
🗣️ I am very excited and grateful to everyone, I hope the american people enjoy seeing their culture on the page by which I mean the book references the popular and relevant films Coming to America and Hercules in New York
thrilled that i will have a hand in ushering GRETA AND VALDIN into this part of the world!
@rebeccakreilly
's voice is inimitably irrepressible, and her debut is fresh, hilarious, and alive. i can't wait for us to debate which line best captures being gay and young come 2024!
SOME NEWS... I am just giddy with delight to announce that I'm now representing NZ sensation
@rebeccakreilly
and her impossibly funny, clever, moving, award-winning, bestselling masterpiece GRETA & VALDIN in the UK!
it is so embarrassing to admit that I have been sobbing all afternoon because of the comments of an elderly weasel man and his young puppet who doesn’t know the difference between a macaroon and macaron, but I want to be transparent!! It’s hard to be tough all the time
I genuinely cringed reading this absurd take, call me a fool but I believe it’s possible to live a full and happy life whether or not you’ve won a best first book prize at the new zealand book awards
if you’re feeling like you didn’t get enough done this year, I had to turn down a job writing about my top 5 books of the year because I didn’t read 5 books this year
I am happy to show anyone who thinks that Māori can all go to university for free on a bunch of mysterious scholarships my student loan balance which is 100 thousand dollars!!
thread regarding pre-publication activity for GRETA & VALDIN republished in hardback for the english speaking people of the world who live in countries that aren’t new zealand this coming february, starting with this editor’s pick for fiction in
@KirkusReviews
✨
sorry to restigmatise mental health but having seasonal affective disorder is so cringe... I am so sad because I am in love with the beach... it's a disorder... called SAD... I need strawberries to be $2.99 or I'll cry
imagining if katherine mansfield was here today and we all had to read an op ed about her problematic stereotyping of hardworking middle aged kiwi men who have every right to go to local dances and whisper to teen girls that they won’t be pretty forever
happy autism day to the terrifying and perplexing outlaws of society, hot autistic women. although we may face many perils: vague emails, small talk, and restaurants where it’s unclear how to order; we are strong in our ability to never laugh at a joke unless it’s truly funny
when you don’t own a house, a car, an enormous quantity of untaxed assets or have children so your voter demographic in the 2023 nz general election is person who has teeth
there needs to be a rating system for how funny books are because a lot of these blurbs are saying outrageously hilarious and laugh out loud funny when they should be saying sparsely entertaining and not hugely traumatic
please! my reincarnated book is revealed for your north american contacts! they don’t have to be your friends. if they are away, let them know when they return from the eastern conference, tin house, montauk, bayou, alamo, safeway etc
🫛🍊💗
GRETA & VALDIN COVER REVEAL✨
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they navigate queerness, multiracial identity, and the dramas big and small of their entangled, unconventional family, all while flailing their way to love.
instead I will link this article about what it feels like to think you're too 'normal' to be truly autistic from a site that has many resources written by actual autistic people
my uncle has messaged to say that I would never have got vaxxed if I 'knew what things were like in europe', which seems like a bit of a rando call because I actually used to live in europe, after I finished my degree in european studies
THE most exciting proofs landed on my desk this morning. hilarious, tender, buzzy queer fiction coming from
@hutchheinemann
in 2024. this is going to be one of THE books of next year. it’s impossible not to love and i am so excited for the world to fall in love with g and v 🍋
my mum voted for labour candidates for 40 years until they unleashed this ghoulish essence of westmere down bullock track onto the unsuspecting victims of the st lukes foodcourt chair shortage (2020–ongoing)
I have seen so many near miss traffic accidents in the last 24 hours and have been forced to imagine the headline ‘alleged upper middle class nz writer rebecca k. rieley dead at 28’ and a horde of middle aged men replying ‘never heard of her’ and ‘nz writer bit of an oxymoron🤣’
don't worry if you have such a bad time at the book awards you cry and throw up, a surprising number of people have done it before you and that's the enduring legacy of new zealand literature
Some people are contacting me to say the mall is actually good, but I already know this. I love the mall. I am at the mall right now reading a quote from myself in the newspaper about how I love the mall.
if you say that LOVE ACTUALLY is the most problematic movie of all time out loud you should be instantly transported to a sleepover in 2005 where the dvd lineup is ace ventura, shallow hal, revenge of the nerds and norbit
when a review says a book has 'no plot', it's a code to mean the reviewer assumed the book was going to have a big train heist in it at some point and now they're too embarrassed to say
I would still love to feel the nostalgic teenage euphoria like at an mcr show but unfortunately I came of age with a fucked up vibe and I don't think beirut is going to do a stadium tour of gulag orkestar
writing a hideously depressing 900 page book that uses the plight of new zealand native snails as a metaphor for the breakdown of functioning society in an effort to deter people from referring to me as a 'comic novelist'
no one needs to do any homophobic replies to my tweets, I’m actually really busy listening to my mum tell a story about how she decided which cardigan to wear to the work christmas party
I was so pleased that this review recognised my book's theme of communication through kōrero. Using expository dialogue in fiction is a big risk because in 1921 a white man wrote it was basically bullshit to do that (sHoW dOn'T tEll). However I am māori in 2021, what do I care
"Reilly uses expository dialogue – and not to the story’s detriment. I believe it is a theme of the book: to kōrero."
@beckymana
delves into this debut novel by
@rebeccakreilly
, centred around an eccentric pair of siblings living in Tāmaki Makaurau.
I have had a very bad week for people thinking I'm not Māori or 'Māori enough' so going forward I will be responding to all of these incidents with a warning and a picture of my dad's side-eye
I keep reading every day this week that I am a writer in my mid 20s. People are emailing me asking me to comment about what it feels like to be very young. But I was born 31 years ago. I can't cut myself in half and get you to count the rings so this is my passport.
It’s BAD we’re on day 11 of getting every lawyer and spokesmodel in the country to write a column chastising young people for voting in their best interests and not the interests of people who are given platforms to publicly voice their humiliatingly facile political opinions
"Labour lost cause leftists are too invested in the Green Party"
oh true? I thought they lost cause they ran a bullshit campaign and capitulated to widely unpopular business interests every time they felt a mild breeze
how do I block all content from the writers festival, I can’t stand to gaze upon these non stop images of people cheerily eating in auckland’s worst restaurants
All right, fuck it. I wasn't going to do this on main but this just kicked me over the edge.
I've spent the last year recording every english language fiction deal in Publisher's Marketplace, googling over 4000 authors, and this is what the current book deal landscape looks like
I can't believe I'm spending my one precious life telling the auckland council it's not a good idea to charge people for not wanting a giant bin, as well as other courses of action such as cutting services but charging the same rates and defunding the zoo
I can’t believe I saw this queue and decided to get an ice cream and then drove straight out, while all these other people chose to piss in their cars and starve
I feel sorry for people who didn't go to intermediate. Just two wild years of everyone accusing everyone of being in love with each other and doing woodwork
I have found out that the last application I recommended was rejected because the assessor found me to be an ‘inexperienced’ writer to have a recommendation from and thus the project may turn out to be ‘not of high quality’
cnz applications I write recommendation letters for continue to have a zero percent success rate at receiving funding, a huge stain on my name as a tastemaker
forgetting she has another brother who’s a prominent indigenous rights activist AND now, four years later, someone’s interpreted this as the book being against provincial new zealand and gone ahead and written an essay called woke psychosis. I feel like lydia tár / homer simpson!
also I hate to do a publishing tweet but most nz fiction and poetry books are ONLY published in nz, you would need to have an australian deal for a book to be available there because it’s a different country which is 5x bigger and they don’t really care what we get up to