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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 2d

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The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 14d

@robtruestories.bsky.social verdict on Keshed. The Lord of Misrule was one of the first to read it and even HE thought it was dark so i knew i was on the right track.

Check out his novel with @influxpress.bsky.social if srsly hyperreal, hallucinatory dreamydruggy urban gothic is your kinda thing

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 15d

"Keshed vividly describes the strange beauty, stubborn pride and abject horror of lives brought low and broken. There's humour; but no hope."

Big up @robtruestories.bsky.social for the latest awesome Keshed endorsement to add to the list, really homing in on the dark side 🙏🖤

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Turnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social · 12d

From @influxpress.bsky.social, blending folkloric horror with explorations of womanhood against a backdrop of eco-anxiety, TENDER burrows into the quiet violence of overcoming and accepting our darkest sides...
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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 14d

'A lush, intoxicating debut where secrets are poison and every touch carries the risk of contamination.'
– Kirsty Logan

A very happy publication day to Lauren DuPlessis! Her wonderful debut novel TENDER is out today.

www.influxpress.com/tender

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 14d

'A lush, intoxicating debut where secrets are poison and every touch carries the risk of contamination.'
– Kirsty Logan

A very happy publication day to Lauren DuPlessis! Her wonderful debut novel TENDER is out today.

www.influxpress.com/tender

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Jan Hicks @dustystacks.bsky.social · Sep 9

This year I set myself the challenge of reading from my backlog of books published by independent presses. Lauren Du Plessis' Tender, from @influxpress.bsky.social, is book 27 from the list. It's immense. Find out why here thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/t...
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Tender

Tender is the debut novel by Lauren Du Plessis. It plunges the reader straight into the life of archaeobotanist Nell, an anxious young woman who has lost her stable job documenting finds on pre-con…

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Jan Hicks @dustystacks.bsky.social · 20d

Tender is a brilliant novel. Buy it.
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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Lauren du Plessis is a British writer of speculative, folkloric, and weird fiction. She lives in the bluebell-saturated chalk hills of the Chilterns with her family.

Tender is her first novel.

www.influxpress.com/tender

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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 20d

Many thanks to @seanbirnie.bsky.social for the kind words….

Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 20d

PARADISE by @bentufnell.bsky.social is published March 2026 and pre-orders are now open.

www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 20d

PARADISE by @bentufnell.bsky.social is published March 2026 and pre-orders are now open.

www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 20d

PARADISE by @bentufnell.bsky.social is published March 2026 and pre-orders are now open.

www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...

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Jan Hicks @dustystacks.bsky.social · 25d

From my selected 40 books on my physical To Read pile, I'm hoping to get to Paola Ferrante's Her Body Among Animals, published by @influxpress.bsky.social
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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 20d

TOMORROW!

Two men and a book: Wayne Holloway and Jez Smith in conversation at Hastings Book Festival

20 Sept 2025
12:30 – 13:30

The Observer Building
53 Cambridge Rd
Hastings
TN34 1DT
UK

🎟️ £5.

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Lauren du Plessis is a British writer of speculative, folkloric, and weird fiction. She lives in the bluebell-saturated chalk hills of the Chilterns with her family.

Tender is her first novel.

www.influxpress.com/tender

Tender — Influx Press

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Jan Hicks @dustystacks.bsky.social · Sep 3

I have my Kickstarter pledge copy, am 54 pages in and already want to take the day off to do nothing but read this. It's magnificently creepy and beautifully written.
Pre-order it immediately!
#BookSky #IndependentPublisher #InfluxPress #LaurenDuPlessis

Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

TENDER, the powerfully atmospheric debut novel by Lauren DuPlessis, is back from the printer and looking fantastic!

Interested press + reviewers please DM or contact [email protected]

Pre-order now. Published September 25th.

www.influxpress.com/tender

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Blending folkloric horror with explorations of womanhood against a backdrop of eco-anxiety, Tender burrows into the quiet violence of overcoming and accepting our darkest sides.

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

TENDER, the powerfully atmospheric debut novel by Lauren DuPlessis, is back from the printer and looking fantastic!

Interested press + reviewers please DM or contact [email protected]

Pre-order now. Published September 25th.

www.influxpress.com/tender

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Lauren du Plessis is a British writer of speculative, folkloric, and weird fiction. She lives in the bluebell-saturated chalk hills of the Chilterns with her family.

Tender is her first novel.

www.influxpress.com/tender

Tender — Influx Press

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Blending folkloric horror with explorations of womanhood against a backdrop of eco-anxiety, Tender burrows into the quiet violence of overcoming and accepting our darkest sides.

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Under the pressure of a blazing summer, Nell whirlwinds into toxic romance, intense friendships, and the brutal process of reconciling her past and her future before the weight of it all buries her, too.

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

and the more her body manifests her own wildness in ways she can’t ignore.

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

When two ‘bog bodies’ are discovered in elaborate floral graves in a Somerset fen, Nell seizes the opportunity to excavate their secrets. But the deeper she digs into the fertile, waterlogged earth, the more she uncovers memories of her unsettled childhood and strained relationship with her sister…

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

Nell has curated a perfect museum of the self: a successful career in archaeobotany, a pastel Instagram filled with flowers, and an uncompromising manicure routine. She’s convinced that her veneer of perfection will mask the parts of her she’d rather not think about.

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

‘A lush, intoxicating debut where secrets are poison and every touch carries the risk of contamination. A story of obsession and transformation, written with the relentless creep of untamed weeds and the bite of a thistle.’
– Kirsty Logan

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

'An obsessive, oppressive, feverish work of folk-horror tangling and twining into body-horror... an odd, spiky and compelling read'
– Adam Leslie

‘Du Plessis weaves an intricate garland of folklore, body horror and elegant surrealism into this intriguing and disturbing novel’
– Lucie McKnight Hardy

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · Aug 29

TENDER, the powerfully atmospheric debut novel by Lauren DuPlessis, is back from the printer and looking fantastic!

Interested press + reviewers please DM or contact [email protected]

Pre-order now. Published September 25th.

www.influxpress.com/tender

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