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Another uplifting tale from the world of The Less Miserables SoulFire77’s’s ‘The Less Miserables Keep a Secret’ is today’s Pick of the Day. Do read all 3 parts! www.abctales.com/story/soulfi... Please share if you can. Image source and author: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca... JAMMIN8905!
A moment in the spotlight for our recently chosen Poem of the Month by maudsy, Clearing Out: www.abctales.com/story/maudsy...
Today's #PickoftheDay is Ivan the Ok-ish's first part of a two parter, entitled Off Script. Quirky and compelling, why check it out and share it, if you like it too. www.abctales.com/story/ivan-o...
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Our Story and Poem of the Month for July, very kindly chosen by Mark Say:
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A trip back to 1996 with airyfairy's excellent Wannabe, part of our Writing challenge www.abctales.com/story/airyfa...
Ruthio's wonderful poem in celebration of a most momentous event, is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can. www.abctales.com/story/ruthio...
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Thunderous Rocky Rain A downpour from another realm - Born in the driest of Junes
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And the last of my author interviews. Here talking short stories with shout outs to @sunburntsaints.bsky.social @abctales.bsky.social Pistol Jim Press, Punk Noir Press, Revolution John. youtu.be/liY_zc-BhNk?...
Author Interview - in conversation with Drew Gummerson BONUS FEATURES
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And here it is! Part 4 of my author interview and here I am talking about my latest, Saltburn @renardpress.com - renardpress.com/books/saltbu... youtu.be/ebS6EozBzck?...
Author Interview - in conversation with Drew Gummerson (Part 4)
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Teenage heartbreak 1989 style, a ouija board, and a ghost - all included in the final (so far) entry to our current Writing Challenge What more could anyone want for a Friday Pick? www.abctales.com/story/airyfa...
Evoking a real sense of time and place. Together with sparkling dialogue, do join the wonderful characters at Makis’s ‘The Tea Break’ making this today’s Pick of the Day. www.abctales.com/story/makis/... Please share if you can.
Need a smile? Read Terence Oblong's latest story, which is Pick of the day! www.abctales.com/story/terren...
Pick of the Day - rather beautiful, optimistic, and sad all at the same time. www.abctales.com/story/hudson...
For our fiction challenge about number one singles, Turlough uses arguably the most extraordinary Christmas chart topper of them all as a jumping off point for another vivid and witty slice-of-life tale. Enjoy! www.abctales.com/story/turlou...
Airyfairy writes so the reader is instantly in the minds of her characters. Pick of the Day is this wonderful new story, please do share if you can www.abctales.com/story/airyfa...
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Another “Kind of” Review: A Taste of the Mediterranean. Cooper Kitchen & Bar, 23 July 2026.
When I told a friend we were attending ‘A Taste of the Mediterranean’, he said ‘a very salty dish with dubious ingredients, then?’ It was a joke that would be understood onl…
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First non-food/concert blog post for a while ewanlawrie.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/3... #'60s #Music #Theydontake'emlikethatanymore
3 Crackers Crackers
These three songs sum up the bonkers brilliance of music of bygone days. One is a Brecht-Weill masterpiece about a gangster. One sounds like the title song from the soundtrack to a loony spaghetti …
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For @tomsnarsky.bsky.social’s #smallpoemsunday, ‘Bucca’ from Walrussey, my debut pamphlet of oceanic ecopoetry, available here: blackcatpress.co.uk/product-page/walrussey
This (rather relentless) weather reminded me of a poem from my second pamphlet, Circulaire ☀️
GIVEAWAY ALERT!! 🚨 I’m giving away TWO free copies of my pamphlet, Circulaire, to celebrate Yorkshire Day on August 1st! 🐑 If Yorkshire puddings, family, folklore, and northern womanhood are your jam, just drop a comment below to be added to the draw 💛
Latest substack is up. And today it’s a book review of Post-it Notes from Underground by Simon Crump @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social - and to avoid any tension before the click, I loved it, it’s a brilliant book. open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...
On Post-it Notes from Underground by Simon Crump
A Book Review
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Part 1 is here. Getting my debut book published. youtu.be/RE--W04EHWY?...
Author Interview - in conversation with Drew Gummerson (Part1)
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Part 2 of my Adventures in Publishing. Here’s me trying to remember anything but in this edition finding an agent and signing to a big publisher. Don’t worry! It’s on very Gummerson brand. Completely shambolic 😂😳 youtu.be/WuzXid8eEWY?...
Author Interview: in conversation with Drew Gummerson (Part 2)
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“You’re very prolific.” “Not prolific. No. Not at all. I haven’t had that many books and I’ve been around 100 years.” Writing a book by mistake. How a 50 word story got me an agent. Changing the ending for a million quid. youtu.be/WuzXid8eEWY?... www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
Author Interview: in conversation with Drew Gummerson (Part 2)
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And it’s Part 3 and it’s everyone’s favourite hotel, The Flamingo Hotel. Here I talk about how I came to write and get published Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. (Book a room now in a spanking new edition - www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...) youtu.be/dWgvnry8qEY?...
Author Interview - in conversation with Drew Gummerson (Part 3)
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And you can buy Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel here. www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
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“I thought I can’t do this anymore, I’m giving up, I’m just going to write what I like…. but then I thought it’s too rude to be published.” On how Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel came to be published @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social youtu.be/dWgvnry8qEY?...
Author Interview - in conversation with Drew Gummerson (Part 3)
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The Bearded Badger Bookshop is opening on Friday 31st July. So if you’re in or around Derby then drop in and say hi. Spread the news! An indie bookshop is coming to town!
Drew Gummerson@drewgum.bsky.social · last wk.On the best news ever. The Bearded Badger is back and opening a new bookshop. @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...
On the best news ever. The Bearded Badger is back and opening a new bookshop. @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...
On a new indie bookshop - the Bearded Badger is back.
Last week I was chatting to Paul Handley, chief guru and bookworm of all he surveys at Bearded Badger Books.
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Eric Marsh's dauntless Amanderella is on the trail of another mystery - this time with an apparently very considerate ghost! This is our hugely enjoyable Pick of the Day: www.abctales.com/story/eric-m...
