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Current location: St. Leonards-on-Sea, England 'You're one of us now.' - Doug Anthony All-Stars. Made in Scotland from girders. Any pronouns. Gender is a spectrum. https://toriaredfern.wordpress.com (photo: me & Foz Foster @ the 100 Club by Isabelle Adam)

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 8d

Dickon Edwards
October Book Events!
In which I get my career back on Track

The diary book will be published on 24 Oct. Copies will be sent to Kickstarter backers around that time. A "survey" email will be sent out before then, to collect postal addresses.

The book will also be on sale for normal people at the following three special events. I shall be at each of them, reading, signing books, taking questions, and, in the case of the two bar locations, recommending cocktails and mocktails.

Friday 24 October: LONDON, UK. 3.30pm. Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL.

Friday 24 October: LONDON, UK. 7pm. The Boogaloo, 312 Archway Rd, N6 5AT. My favourite London bar and the location of many of the book’s events.

Wednesday 29 October: ST LEONARDS-ON-SEA, East Sussex, UK. 6pm. Reel Bar at Kino-Teatr Cinema, 43 Norman Rd, TN38 0EE. My favourite bar in my present home town.

You can also buy the book directly from the publisher at poniesandhorsesbooks.com.

More info at my Substack, which reveals how the million-word online diary became a manageable book. (Spoiler: there were cuts).

https://dickonedwards.substack.com

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 4h

Don't miss our new @EmpirePodUK double bill on:

OTTOMAN GAZA:

From Selim the Grim to Allenby & the WW1 Battles of Gaza
With the great Eugene Rogan, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford
podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/2...

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Michael Legge @michaellegge.bsky.social · 15h

All my BRILLIANT Bandcamp stuff is “pay what you want” until midnight on Sunday. Audiobook (recommended), EPs and live shows! You can even have them all for free, if you want. Get them while you can. Normal price returns on Monday. THANK YOU! SPREAD THE WORD!! michaellegge.bandcamp.com/music

Michael Legge

Bandcamp page for comedian Michael Legge. Follow him on Twitter: @michaellegge.

michaellegge.bandcamp.com

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 18h

It still baffles me. It felt at the time like she had to be taking the piss.

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 18h

By then you could get on EVEN IF YOU'D NOT RELEASED A RECORD YET.

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 22h

The lawyers used to actually sit in on recordings in the gallery, but that was in the '90s (am old).

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Unchartered Streets @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social · 1d

Well, this always was a poem I’d find myself whistling while doing the washing up, so no surprise that @skepwax.bsky.social have made it a single; and if the train in the video looks familiar, check out Heavenly’s I Fell In Love Last Night on YouTube – there’s thought goes into this stuff, you know.

Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 2d

A new single, ‘Might Have, Might Not Have’, has been released from my poetry-pop album with The Catenary Wires, ‘Sounds Made Like Humans’.

There’s even an accompanying video with some very super Super-8 footage of trains and tracks for all you railway enthusiasts out there.
youtu.be/6m7ZZZhlIC0?...

Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires – Might Have, Might Not Have

YouTube video by Skep Wax

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly! I cannot see what the issue is here.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

Those +are+ breakfast cocktails, though.

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t you hate standing at gigs? I hate standing at gigs. At my gig on the 21st October you can sit in nice red chairs. It’s on a boat five minutes from Canary Wharf station. I play all of my record The Ship’s Piano.
wegottickets.com/fikarecordings

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 8d

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 1d

Over 200 unique, funny, odd and original pictures available at my Etsy shop. Please. My printer is very thirsty. marswasrubbish.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

My picture "I'll wait a million more hours and then that's it" shows a figure waiting by a lamppost

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

How A Publisher Almost Killed The Book I Waited My Whole Life To Write: a thread

My novel Villager came out in 2022. It was published by Unbound, who had little marketing/sales power. But I was excited & proud, since I worked so f-ing hard on it.

Here's an extract: www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

our cat Charles with Villager, shortly after it was published

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Joz Norris @joznorris.bsky.social · 1d

Woops butterfingers, so embarrassing to have dropped this poster

Blue Bar Productions @bluebarprod.bsky.social · 1d

🚨NEW POSTER DROP🚨

Join us for The Wolf of Poyais' debut run at the Golden Goose Theatre, starring @joznorris.bsky.social!

🎭 21st to 25th | 7pm or 3pm Saturday Matinee

🎟️Book Now🎟️

Thank you to Desk Tidy for the new poster!

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The Allusionist @allusionistshow.bsky.social · 3d

New episode is in your podfeed, for Banned Books Week theallusionist.org/bannedbooks

Allusionist 218. Banned Books — The Allusionist

It's Banned Books Week. Honorary youth chair Iris Mogul and Sam Helmick, president of the American Library Association, talk about what it is, why it matters so much, and how you can get involved.

theallusionist.org

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

Northumbrian pipes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northum...
Different to Scottish bagpipes.

Northumbrian smallpipes - Wikipedia

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

True. Very up yourself to think 'by reading BlueSky I am single-handedly defending the world from the Nazis'.
I might have just BlueSkyed myself. "How can you watch Celebrity Traitors and TOTP when Robert Jenrick..."

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

??? I know universities these days encourage the kids to throw them in the air - assumed it was copying American high schools or something. Nobody did that when I graduated.

Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

I'm torn between extending my break from here for my mental health and feeling it's wrong to not be paying full attention.

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Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just burning a book, that's the thing. It's the sort of insufferable nonsense Nazis come out with to try and have a 'clever' argument with you, like the dictionary definition of words that racists shout at people in the street. It's not just setting fire to paper and they know that.