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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 8h

Can’t wait to see it. And how amazing is that? 🙌

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 9h

Got to see the first two episodes of the Leonard and Hungry Paul TV show in a small cinema with the crew and cast. With genuine and heartfelt sincerity, I loved it. I feel so grateful to everyone who worked on it.

I hope you all love it as much as I do (but I think you will).

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 12h

Out the closet. Good to hear!

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 12h

Hope you’re enjoying!

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Peter Bennett @pbennett.bsky.social · 14h

Currently reading and can confirm it’s about this, among other wide and varying things. IYKYK.😄

Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 14h

Tomorrow!

Bookshop Day!

You know what to do!!

(Go to a bookshop…)

(Buy book…)

Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

It’s bookshop day on 11th October. A day to celebrate your local bookshop.

You could even go totally bananas and buy my latest, Saltburn, which is about, after all, small businesses being assailed by big business. Well, that’s one thing it’s about…

booksaremybag.com/BookshopDay/...

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 14h

Tomorrow!

Bookshop Day!

You know what to do!!

(Go to a bookshop…)

(Buy book…)

Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

It’s bookshop day on 11th October. A day to celebrate your local bookshop.

You could even go totally bananas and buy my latest, Saltburn, which is about, after all, small businesses being assailed by big business. Well, that’s one thing it’s about…

booksaremybag.com/BookshopDay/...

The bookshop day poster. It asks you to choose bookshops:

Local jobs
Local economy
Local community
Real passion
Real people
Real conversations
Proper service
Perfect gifts
(and taxes paid!)

The cover of Saltburn. Candy stripes coming from a picture of a seal sitting under a beach umbrella.

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 1d

And Leicester Local Writers Fair 1st November.

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 1d

One for your diaries.

1st November I’ll be selling Saltburn and my other books at Leicester’s Local Writers Fair.

Come along. Say hello.

@renardpress.com

The fair will take place between 10am-3pm at Leicester Central Library, Bishop St, Leicester LE1 6AA

Copies of my books - Saltburn, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel, Me and Mickie James, The Lodger and You on a gingham table cloth.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 1d

Dublin small press fair on 28 & 29 November at Pearse St library. Free and open to the public.

dublinsmallpressfair.com

dublinsmallpressfair.com

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 1d

One for your diaries.

1st November I’ll be selling Saltburn and my other books at Leicester’s Local Writers Fair.

Come along. Say hello.

@renardpress.com

The fair will take place between 10am-3pm at Leicester Central Library, Bishop St, Leicester LE1 6AA

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve never read Pynchon… I’ve read most of Murakami but like the earlier stuff.

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Barbara Byar @barbarabyar.bsky.social · 1d

Coming, 3-3-26 ftom @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social .
Many thanks to @stephanieaustin.bsky.social x

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 1d

Novel you said… those are non fiction. Brilliant. But a different person I’m guessing then. Great cover!

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 1d

James Campbell who wrote Paris Interzone and This is the Beat Generation?

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Renard Press @renardpress.com · 2d

Some rather lovely #bookpost to start the day – welcoming this #modernist murder mystery to the Gertrude Stein collection.

One of her most avant-garde pieces, this is a brilliant snapshot of a summer spent in the French countryside, where all is not as it seems…

renardpress.com/books/blood-...

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 2d

My last two published books have been thanks to social media. Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social and Saltburn @renardpress.com

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

It’s bookshop day on 11th October. A day to celebrate your local bookshop.

You could even go totally bananas and buy my latest, Saltburn, which is about, after all, small businesses being assailed by big business. Well, that’s one thing it’s about…

booksaremybag.com/BookshopDay/...

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

And if you’re in the Derbyshire area on that day, Bookshop Day, 11th October, then you definitely should head over to Little Eaton and visit the one and only Bearded Badger Books pop up shop.

bsky.app/profile/bear...

Bearded Badger Books @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Our next pop up at the brilliant Bouquet in Little Eaton (Derbyshire)… happens to coincide with Bookshop Day! 😊📚🍷

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

It’s bookshop day on 11th October. A day to celebrate your local bookshop.

You could even go totally bananas and buy my latest, Saltburn, which is about, after all, small businesses being assailed by big business. Well, that’s one thing it’s about…

booksaremybag.com/BookshopDay/...

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

In,

“On Downsizing”

The 15 minute city, Wim Wender’s Perfect Days, a Parisian garret, a philosophy of living. Of sorts.

open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

On downsizing

It was on the cards.

open.substack.com

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

👏👏👏👏👏

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds like a plan 😆

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

In,

“On Downsizing”

The 15 minute city, Wim Wender’s Perfect Days, a Parisian garret, a philosophy of living. Of sorts.

open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

On downsizing

It was on the cards.

open.substack.com

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Emily Garside @emilygarside.bsky.social · 3d

LGBTQIA+ TV through the ages!

How has LGBTQIA+ representation evolved on screen? from chaste kisses making headlines, to teen Queer TV going mainstream...

From Queer as Folk to Heartstopper and everything in between!.

www.bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/act...

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve preordered. Direct from @ortacpress.bsky.social.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3d

All up-to-date Keshed info inc. pre-orders, endorsements (of which many) and event info/tix links. Also doing @europeanreview.bsky.social in Jan (date TBC) and working on the official online launch too but that's secret for now. More soon!

stuhennigan.substack.com/p/blatant-se...

Blatant self-promotion alert!

Oh please fuck off with that.......

stuhennigan.substack.com

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