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'Not many authors are lucky enough to have a talented producer/actor/rap artist make a music video based on a book they wrote. 
Thank you, @[564561133633675:274:Kloud9Reacher], for doing such an amazing job of 'Feral Youth: Ashley Speaks'. Can't wait for launch at 5pm. (Watch this space.)

Screenshot feat @[62852998341:274:Deanna Rodger] & @shan_sneakz  
#picoftheday #youtube #Subscribe #watch #FeralYouth #Novel #Follow #London2011Riots'
'"Not an erotic romance as the title might lead you to believe" (?!) Thank you, The Bookseller, for featuring Golden Handcuffs in your indie selection!'
'Yep, that's me. Sadly not every childhood is a happy one. Help to change the lives of 1.5m kids suffering in the UK by signing the #SeeTheChild petition on @[287311347969580:274:KidsCompany]'s www.seethechild.org:'
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"Do women really want to get to the top?" I argue yes in The Telegraph. Not sure about this 'circular vs vertical' debate though...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/do-women-really-want-to-get-t…/

Just as one woman steps up to the top job of Prime Minister, the rest of us have been firmly put back in our place, with the assertion that we have a “
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It's out! The amazing music vid "Feral Youth: Ashley Speaks", produced by Kloud9Reacher at One Light Talent Entertainment, feat. Deanna Rodger http://youtu.be/Yfrcr3GSeDI

I am one lucky author.

OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR THE NOVEL "FERAL YOUTH" by POLLY COURTNEY (2013) [www.pollycourtney.com] Growing up on a south London estate and excluded from every...
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Not many authors are lucky enough to have a talented producer/actor/rap artist make a music video based on a book they wrote.
Thank you, Kloud9Reacher, for doing such an amazing job of 'Feral Youth: Ashley Speaks'. Can't wait for launch at 5pm. (Watch this space.)

Screenshot feat Deanna Rodger & @shan_sneakz
#picoftheday #youtube #Subscribe #watch #FeralYouth #Novel #Follow #London2011Riots

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If you enjoyed Feral Youth, please please spare two clicks (yep, 2!) for the trailer in the International Movie Trailer Awards! With just 40 more votes, we will win!!
http://www.internationalmovietrailerfestival.com/…/feral-y…/

A trailer for the best-selling novelist and commentator Polly Courtney’s new novel, Feral Youth. The book was the first novel of its kind to be based on the England Riots, and looks critically at the causes of the chaos through the eyes of the main character Alesha; a disaffected teenager who is dra…
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My story - somewhat inexplicably - in the Daily Express... http://www.express.co.uk/…/Bankers-bonuses-London-s-feral-y…

AT the age of 21, Polly Courtney had the financial world at her feet.
express.co.uk|By Nick Rippington

I'll be on CBC Radio One, "The Current", in half an hour, discussing Goldman's magnanimous new ruling for interns' hours - http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent

He's got more than 60,000 twitter followers but the work he does depends less on technology and more on dogs. James Rebanks is a shepherd in the Lake District of northwest England. He's Oxford educated but realized early on that his attachment to his family's centuries old profession was his real in…
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"Not an erotic romance as the title might lead you to believe" (?!) Thank you, The Bookseller, for featuring Golden Handcuffs in your indie selection!

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Great ad to promote *real* sport, not slick Nike perfect-bum sexy sh*te... #ThisGirlCan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN7lt0CYwHg

This Girl Can celebrates the women who are doing their thing no matter how they do it, how they look or even how sweaty they get. They’re here to inspire us ...
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It's been a depressing week in the news... so don't feel you have to read this.

This article first appeared on Huffington Post. To view the original article, click here. This week, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, Gordon Taylor, compared the 'p...
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To celebrate 10 years of Polish migration within the EU (and frankly, to stick two fingers up at Nigel Farage), I'm giving away copies of my allegedly “revolutionary” page-turner, POLES APART.

Grab your free ebook here!

To celebrate 10 years of Polish migration within the EU (and frankly, to stick two fingers up at Nigel Farage), Polly Courtney is giving away copies of her "revolutionary" page-turner, POLES APART....
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Thanks 'Hannibal' for the nice review! As Alesha would say, "Rah".

"A triumph of authenticity, weaving a compelling story around important subjects and giving a voice to the unheard""The truth is, it ain't just a race thing. They talk like it is, but really and truly it's black against white, young against old, authorities against the rest. It's ...
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Intrigued by these mysterious anti-police posters... an org with a reasonably big budget and a serious axe to grind..?

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/…/mysterious-posters-appear-a…

A NUMBER of posters have mysteriously appeared around the UK branding the Metropolitan Police "racist" and blaming them for the 2011 London riots.
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Those bloody job-stealing-yet-lazy immigrants!

http://newsthump.com/…/ukip-warns-of-schrodingers-immigran…/

UKIP have updated Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment by insisting that immigrants exist in a state of both lazing around on benefits whilst simultaneously being out there stealing British jobs.
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"If One Day had been written by a woman it would've been standard airport reading." I HEART Jodi Picoult.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/Jodi-Picoult-Its-really-hard-t…

She is one of America's most successful novelists, but she sometimes despairs of her country. As she releases her 24th novel, Jodi Picoult tells Bryony Gordon why Americans should be made to travel.
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Not sure what it has to do with Sainsbury's, but this short film feat. Xmas Day WWI truce is definitely better than that ad with the penguin...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM

Presenting the new Sainsbury’s Christmas advert. Made in partnership with The Royal British Legion. Inspired by real events from 100 years ago. This year’s C...
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Potty-Mouthed Princesses Drop F-Bombs. Can't believe I only just saw this. F&*KING brilliant.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=793691827336181

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Potty-Mouthed Princesses Drop F-Bombs for Feminism by FCKH8.com

Little Girls Drop “F-Bombs for Feminism” in Bluntly Comedic Viral Video Educating Adults On Sexi...sm.
“Swear Jar Princesses” as Young as 6 Years-Old Use F-Word to Draw Adult Attention to More Offensive Words Like “Pay Inequality” and “Rape”

Los Angeles, CA– October 21, 2014 – Facing a future where women are still paid 23% less than men for the same work, and where 1 in 5 women are raped or sexually assaulted in gender-based violence, little girls between 6 and 13 years-old dressed as pretty pink princesses drop F-bombs to draw attention to society’s continued sexism. Asking the question, “What’s more offensive? A little girl saying f*ck or the sexist way society treats girls and women” these adorably articulate little ladies in sparkling tiaras turn the “princess in distress” stereotype on its head and contrast the F-word with words and statistics society should find shocking such as “pay inequality” and “rape.” The video also features a 12 year-old boy wearing a pink gown standing up against sexism saying, “When you tell boys not to ‘act like a girl,’ it’s because you think it’s bad to be a girl.”

Quotes from “Pink Princesses Drop F-Bombs for Feminism”:
“Women make 23% less than men for the exact same f*cking work. I shouldn’t need a penis to get paid.”
“Stop focusing on the way I f*cking look and give me a book. My aspirations in life shouldn’t be worrying about the shape of my ass.”
“One out of five women will be sexually assaulted or raped by a man. Stop telling girls how to dress and start teaching boys not to f*cking rape.”

The girls appear along side women in the video sporting T-shirts with bold pink text declaring “Girls Just Want to Have Fun-damental Rights” and “This is What a #Feminist Looks Like.” The video is part of advocacy T-shirt company FCKH8.com’s charity T-shirt fundraising effort. The group’s website is making tees available starting at $15, with $5 from each tee sold benefiting five anti-sexism organizations and projects and asks website visitors to suggest their favorite groups to benefit.

Video producer Mike Kon comments, “Some adults may be uncomfortable with how these little girls are using a bad word for a good cause. It is shocking what they are saying, but the real shock is that women are still paid less than men for the same work in 2014, not the use of the F-word. The big statistic that 1 out of 5 women are sexually assaulted or raped is something society seems to find less offensive than a little four letter word and we love how these girls draw attention to that imbalance.” He added, “Instead of washing these girls’ mouths out with soap, maybe society needs to clean up its act.”

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Polly Courtney is a novelist and commentator from London, UK. She describes herself as an 'accidental novelist', having ...discovered her passion for writing by penning a semi-autobiographical account of a junior investment banker's experiences in the square mile, Golden Handcuffs. Polly's sixth novel, It's a Man's World, came out in September 2011. See more
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  • Hi Books by Polly Courtney, You've got a good sound. Hit me up on email at glenn@kmix-radio.com. Glenn www.kmix-radio.com
  • Great news, Polly! I made a tentative book trailer script for my boo...k called "I am Dr. Charles Joseph Smith: An Autobiography of a Musician and Dancer Who Tamed The Autism Beast." I did the script in just 5 hours! Your YouTube video on how to do a book trailer inspired me to do my own. The script is about 5 pages long, and it is partially a spec and a shooting script, and uses some language often seen in traditional Hollywood screenplays. Now, I am planning to find a voiceover for the script and try to use YouTube video to pull off the book trailer. Thanks, Polly and good luck as I try to promote probably my most major non-fictional book I may have written for all time!!!! Addendum: My book I am trying to publish took about 5 months of hard work. Right now I am in the multiple-editing stage. Developmental, line, structural and copy (this is now my 13th draft), but I keep adding more and more material which causes me to alter the paginations in the table of contents lots of times. It will be published, but it will take time, Polly. See More
  • For the Yanks out there... Feral Youth is officially a 'bargain book' this week!
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