This post resulted in a little rush of subscribers to our chapbook series. Thank you! Very soon we’ll be turning our attention to December’s book, by @luluallison.bsky.social But first, if anyone else wants @drewgum.bsky.social’s Gregor, come and say hello! About 10 copies left and then that’s it!

Drew Gummerson@drewgum.bsky.social · 5d ago

My two chapbooks: YOU: From Pissed to Publication @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social Gregor @sunburntsaints.bsky.social www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store... sunburntsaints.co.uk

Isn’t this beautiful. Thank you @luluallison.bsky.social A Bluemoose Bell celebrating 20 years of Indie publishing. Magic.

Tommo's Tears 🥲🎻 (nice one, court artist Elizabeth Cook and The Guardian)

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

A few quick thoughts on why Meta is afraid of Virginia Woolf: samj.substack.com/p/no-room-fo...

No Room For Virginia Woolf

Meta has forbidden reference to A Room Of One’s Own. It almost makes you think that techno-fascism might not be good for the world.

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Sign our petition to call for climate action here: buff.ly/IrLHG0f

If you go down to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social in Derby today you’re sure of a @sunburntsaints.bsky.social bug-tastic surprise. My chapbook Gregor on sale and a Badger Pick!

SAVE THE DATE: On Thurs, 17 Sept at 6 pm BST, our monthly #WomenWritersNet #SkyChat! Come meet other #Writers when we discuss #Writing the Future. #WritingLife #WritingCommunity #WomenWriters @louiseduckling.bsky.social @luluallison.bsky.social @moschoenfield.bsky.social @ruthwriter.bsky.social

I am starting a reading group in a prison today. Looking forward to it. Reminded of that time I went to visit a mate in young offenders. On leaving, my short hair and scruffy jumper caught the guard who grabbed my shoulder and span me round - ‘OI! Oh .. sorry love, thought you were one of ours.”

Half-expecting government to announce VAT cut on balaclavas to help with cost of living.

Copies of my chapbook Gregor have arrived at the publisher’s from the printer. Don’t they look fab! Available on subscription from sunburntsaints.co.uk or in @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social in Derby soon.

I have added some drawings to my web shop. I started these as research for a book I want to write about drawing. Thinking about the value of drawing, it struck me that in terms of literal value, I have sold art but never a drawing. So that too has become part of my research seventysevenseas.co.uk

Drawing -High Tide Selling (quite cheaply) if you’re interested. There’s a little bit about it in the alt text

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

Local author @jamesgwriter.bsky.social joined us on Bookcited to talk about The Lightning his novel set in a lighthouse on an island in mid Atlantic. Click to listen @librariesni.bsky.social www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wvghx-...

Oooh, let’s get to number 1!

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last mo.

Already up to number 4 on the Blackwell's bestseller list... Can we sneak it to number one, maybe for an hour or two, I wonder, before it's once again bested by books with proper commercial weight behind them?

This is fabulous news. C’mon #Booksky people around the world. Let’s hit up Blackwell’s fantastic p&p offer and support both Tom and the marvellous @breakthroughbook.bsky.social - whilst also getting a great read for yourselves.

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last mo.

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And she was funny: “People say to me ‘How long does it take to do your hair Dolly?’ And I say ‘I don’t know, I’m never there.’”

I’m so sad Dolly Parton was amazing. Such a big human. Such an astounding musician.

My maker shop (how I make my living) got an upgrade (there was a great deal of swearing but I did it…) and I am having an introductory sale on bells and votives. Www.seventysevenseas.co.uk

Alastair Galbraith - John Of The Palsied Eye [New Zealand, Lo-Fi] (1991) https://redd.it/109blp1 https://youtu.be/fRRway0xIQQ

Alastair Galbraith - John Of The Palsied Eye [New Zealand, Lo-Fi] (1991)

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Oh my god … People getting off with each other in The Archers is THE WORST

My friend Alastair- dandelion seeds catching the sun in a spider’s web

Vintage Obscura Radio@vintageobscura.net · 2mo ago

Alastair Galbraith - "Fall" from the album Morse (1993) more great NZ experimental psych https://redd.it/krt4h3 https://youtu.be/qTWvpc0QpbM

We are finalising print numbers now - And once they’re gone they’re gone! £20 gets you four original short stories in individual chapbooks per year. After Drew, next up it’s @luluallison.bsky.social. 2027 will see @heidijames.bsky.social & maybe a certain author of Keshed, among others… Good, eh?

Drew Gummerson@drewgum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“One morning as Gregor awoke from beautiful dreams he found his mother and father transformed into the most horrible vermin…” My chapbook, Gregor, the first release of a new publisher Sunburnt Saints is nearly ready to go off to the printer now. You can subscribe via the link… sunburntsaints.co.uk

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Swa, ("the worst band on SST") Arroyo I seem to remember everyone hated them. Except me? youtu.be/bhj6IN1suco?...

SWA - Arroyo

YouTube video by devildick1

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