Graham Linehan’s Book

Only 1 comment but 11.2k likes now. Maybe it's just a clunky site ?

He's really not pulling his punches, is he? But then I suppose that's what happens when the mob takes away everything. They've got nothing left to threaten him with. He's got no reason to hold his tongue and he's rightly furious.
Very much looking forward to reading the whole thing.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12579459/GRAHAM-LINEHAN-world-remember-Daniel-Radcliffe-Emma-Watson-Rupert-Grint-arrogant-ungrateful-cowards-turning-J-K-Rowling-trans-row.html#comments-12579459

New article today with just 1 comment despite my seeing “17 people typing” and later “14 people typing” plus the comment has 8.9K likes 🤔

I know @Hurrydash . Bit of a mystery that isn't it? Newspaper serialisation is obviously going to be important.

I don't understand these things.
Can anyone please explain how this book - clearly massively popular - was at number 2 in the Amazon chart when pre orders became available, and now doesn't feature in their top 100 list?

WTF?

I’ve used Ziffit quite a few times and often had this, with old and new and obscure vs mass-produced stuff so tbh I don’t think it’s that unusual.

Saw that on mail online too. Like 13 people typing and 11 comments only
That does not add up!! Censorship at its finest
Im shocked he is getting any publicity at all !! He co wrote motherland

I'm a bit optimistic on that. The Guardian appears to be 'pausing for thought' a little, at last (maybe something to do with the writers they've lost, and the bad PR resultant from that).

The bestseller that everyone will ignore?

Funnily enough, I was trying out the 'Ziffit' app the other day (my mum is having a clear out). It's a site where you send used books and receive cash. When I entered the ISBN for Helen Joyce's 'Trans' (my book but just experimenting) I got a message to say they 'could not accept' it. Didn't happen with any other book, even the most obscure ones I entered. Odd?

If the book sells really well - and it looks as if it will do - will that make broadcasters and newspapers change their mind? People like Newsnight and the Guardian, I mean. Or will they just continue to ignore him? How long can you pretend that this is a phenomenon that isn't worth reporting on?

They could have him on Newsnight. Or C4 News....

I would love to see Glinner invited on podcasts, telly, radio and Mumsnet to discuss his new book. But I suspect that he’ll only be invited to be on podcasts hosted by heterodox thinkers e.g. Brendan O’Neill, Andrew Doyle; maybe Peter Boghossian 🤔

Comments are no longer viewable if you use an ad-blocker, so that might be part of it.

Good excerpt in the Daily Mail. Did anyone else notice the comments? Only 11, which doesn't feel like a lot for this kind of article

I noticed only 11 comments and thought it must be a glitch as Mail readers aren't normally backwards at coming forward! Great to see so many likes.

"or that Graham has a hell of a lot of support out there in the world of ordinary people whose brains and sense of human decency haven't been destroyed by capitulation to trans ideology".

Spot on @RoyalCorgi . Take a look at the comments under so many articles about all this. Outrage at the extent of trans extremism, horror that children have been relentlessly targeted & a genuine recognition of the courage of JKR, Maya, Graham and countless other individuals challenging all this.

Good excerpt in the Daily Mail. Did anyone else notice the comments? Only 11, which doesn't feel like a lot for this kind of article, but the top supportive comment for Graham has 12,800 likes. That is way, way above the normal number of likes you'd get on a Mail piece even a popular one. Suggests to me either someone is gaming the likes (but who could be bothered?) or that Graham has a hell of a lot of support out there in the world of ordinary people whose brains and sense of human decency haven't been destroyed by capitulation to trans ideology.

I hope they all get signed. Perhaps they just needed a number.

If he's there signing 3500 books, does that mean later orders don't get signed?

Just ordered my copy.

Glinners has started signing the publisher-distributed books. He looked to be on his third pen in the photo I saw.

I have a friend just released his first album with a huge record label. The small print in the contract would have left him with practically no payment at all for his work. Luckily he had taken the time to read it all very carefully and took out a loan for specialist legal advice. That is with him writing and performing! If you write for other artists you barely get an acknowledgement and certainly very little money.

True @porridgecake . Same with songwriting. McCartney said he'd hate to be starting now ' you can't get paid'. I suppose writing fiction will revert to being an amateur pursuit of the idle rich. With a few token normies.

Graham doesn't get paid anything from the repeats. I remember he explained that on one of his videos. Writers can end up getting very little from their work as far as I can tell. One of my dc is a writer and their income is a mix of fees per piece of work, which are reasonable but time related, and royalties for what they write for other people. The royalties are literally pennies.

All the more reason to ask, then. 😁

Hah, my local library manager is blue-haired twenty-something with a ring thru her nose, @AutumnCrow .Appearances can be deceptive but I would think a request would not go down well at my branch!