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Apologies and what next?

Melvin Burgess · 14 May 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Self-publishing on Substack has the merit that no publisher decides what he can and cannot write.

    Their wordsI’ve enjoyed not having a publisher deciding what I can and can’t do.

  2. Our reading

    Two or three hours of writing a day is enough; there is too much else in the world to enjoy to want to be a man of letters.

    Their wordsFrankly, two or three hours a day is enough for me, I’ve never had an ambition to be what used to be called a man of letters - there’s too much else in the world to enjoy.

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