Did a substack thingy about our new bookshop… 😊📚 open.substack.com/pub/beardedb... #bookshop #booksky #indiebookshop
Opening a bookshop… again!
We’re open!
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Bearded Badger Books
@beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social
Derbyshire based indie publisher | indie press champion | pop up bookshop
Let’s just say it’s been a journey… but I wouldn’t change it for the world!!
It never struck me before - Guiney / Gummerson. Here we are side by side in Bearded Badger Books, Derby. #bookshop @jamesgwriter.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social @renardpress.com
In case anyone wanted to visit our little bookshop… here’s the opening hours for August! #indiebookshop #booksky
Saturday! Following yesterday’s opening day I’ve now reduced the panic level status frok high to medium!!! 😎
Soft opening tonight… lovely to be back selling books. ❤️📚🙌🏼
A new indie bookshop opening in Derby. I think that deserves a load of likes and shares ☺️😬😂🙋♂️🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bearded Badger Books@beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social · last wk.Nearly there!! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 Shelving pretty much done ✅ Books en route ✅ A few little bits n bobs to sort… but feeling confident for opening on Friday!! 📚🙌🏼❤️ #indiebookshop #booksky #indiebooks
My first born… 🦩🏩 (What a writer, what a book 🩷)
Drew Gummerson@drewgum.bsky.social · last wk.“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?...
Considering we only started moving in on Saturday… I think we’ve come a long way in a few days!! 💪🏼 Shelving all done and the first load of books have hit the shelves… (plenty more to come!!). Still a bit to do for Friday opening - but I reckon we’ll be ‘reyt mi duck’ as they say in these parts!!
Nearly there!! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 Shelving pretty much done ✅ Books en route ✅ A few little bits n bobs to sort… but feeling confident for opening on Friday!! 📚🙌🏼❤️ #indiebookshop #booksky #indiebooks
Well isn’t this just lovely… I won’t lie, I got a bit emotional reading it. Closing our little bookshop in Belper was a tough old time - but I’m raring to go again and excited for the future!! 🙌🏼😊📚❤️
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...
We’re getting there!! Painting done ✅ (Mrs Badger is a legend!) Shelving starting to go up!! Books due this week!! Happy Paul!! 😎📚🙌🏼 #booksky #indiebookshop
🚨NEW BOOKSHOP🚨 The cat is out of the bag… Bearded Badger v2.0 is GO!! We’re taking on a unit at the new Bustler complex in Derby city centre… can’t wait to get back bookselling!!! 😎📚🙌🏼 #books #indiebookshop #booksky
All set up for your literary pleasures at The Garage in Chilwell (near Notts). Here 10-2pm 📚😊❤️
Sometimes I think I’m watching the slow death of social media as a positive force, as something that connects like-minded people. And yet here I am, pushing my company on social media, hoping enough people will buy into what we do the way they did in its earlier, prototype form via old Twitter.
Last day to fill your boots with @404ink.bsky.social goodness… my lord these guys will be missed. 👇🏼📚👇🏼📚👇🏼
404 Ink@404ink.bsky.social · last mo.FINAL, FINAL DAY TO GET 404 INK BOOKS! Shop is turned off Tuesday 30th June! www.404ink.com/shop
Good morning. I'll be chatting about 20 years of Indie publishing This Saturday 4th July at 6pm @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social It'll be fun. @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/the-po...
The Power of Independent Press: 20 Years of Bluemoose Books | Bradford Literature Festival
Join us to celebrate 20 years of Bluemoose Publishing, one of the UK’s most fearless and influential independent presses.
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Through a mosaic of interlinked tales spanning decades, acclaimed Spanish author Sara Mesa delivers a gripping look at the family as institution: the ideologies that shape it, the silences beneath it, and the authority you can never quite escape... 👨👩👧👦 Out tomorrow from #PeirenePress buff.ly/5Lw6Y4v
I attended a pretty cool event this morning where 303 people came to our local park for ‘The Big Read’ to celebrate Belper 250 (recognising Belper’s role in the Industrial Revolution) and the National Year Of Reading! My book choice; Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday… superb, def recommend.
This week’s substack is flying free. On Going Viral and Not Writing Again featuring @renardpress.com @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social @roadsongbooks.bsky.social @sunburntsaints.bsky.social & much more. Well, not that much more. Please share if your heart allows. open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...
On going viral and not writing again.
Short stories and dogs.
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Thanks to Rae Toon for this video of all my books ranked. @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social @renardpress.com - my favourite two are also your favourite two and represent what I want to be doing - the angst of Flamingo and the queer joy of Saltburn. youtu.be/CIvQtX6N4BM?...
All Drew Gummerson books RANKED!
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Great new review of my book Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel published by tiny indie publisher @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social - came out in 2020 but a new edition at end of last year. On sale here - www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
SHOP FOR BOOKS | Bbpc
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Dave Appleby@daja57.bsky.social · last mo.Thoroughly enjoyed the enormously funny novel 'Flamingo Hotel' by @drewgum.bsky.social My full review: tinyurl.com/5px8d7s9 #Booksky 💙📚 #Books 📚 #Literaturesky
Thoroughly enjoyed the enormously funny novel 'Flamingo Hotel' by @drewgum.bsky.social My full review: tinyurl.com/5px8d7s9 #Booksky 💙📚 #Books 📚 #Literaturesky
"Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel" by Drew Gummerson
Narrated in the anonymous second person, present tense, this week in the life of dishwasher employed at the hotel who, like Walter Mitty, re...
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For the Sunday crowd. Very proud that one of my stories is going to the launch title for this new chapbook publisher. So give them a follow because chapbooks are ace and what we need are more publishers of them! #ShortStories
Sunburnt Saints Publishing@sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 2mo agoDelighted to announce that the first author in our new, ongoing series of single story chapbooks will be the inimitable @drewgum.bsky.social Drew has written a tale that’s dark, funny, satirical and marvellously original and we can’t wait to publish it later in the year! #BookSky
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Sunburnt Saints Publishing@sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 2mo agoDelighted to announce that the first author in our new, ongoing series of single story chapbooks will be the inimitable @drewgum.bsky.social Drew has written a tale that’s dark, funny, satirical and marvellously original and we can’t wait to publish it later in the year! #BookSky
Happy #PrideMonth from The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, all the staff at The Flamingo Hotel, all the visitors to Saltburn and, most importantly, You. 25 years I’ve been putting gay/queer fiction out there, being positive, vying for visibility. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 @renardpress.com @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social
The lovely publisher of my poetry chapbook 'Echoes of our lives'. You'll be a great speaker Paul - this really does highlight the importance of local independent publishers🎉 @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social
Writing East Midlands@writingeastmidlands.com · 3mo agoIndie presses speaking at our publishing panel: Bearded Badger Publishing! 🦡 Their books: The Pachinko Parlour, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel and Step Forward, Harry Salt. 🧂🦩 Plus, poetry chapbooks from Midlands writers! Find out more about Bearded Badger and our panel HERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️ bit.ly/ARTPWEM
