Paul Handley
@paulhandley1973.bsky.social
Chief bookworm at (currently hibernating) Bearded Badger Publishing… loves me a little music too! Talks like a yam yam, exiled in Derbyshire! MD ANT 🏅
The lazy morning ended up being quite an energetic one… went for a nice 4.5mile walk around Cromford! 😎
A lazy, slow-paced, sunny Sunday morning… coffee, book and a snoozin’ schnauzer! Perfect! 😊
I’m in the new edition of Beverley Life! NB other publications are available and welcome to interview me. Speaking of which, I did mention @paulhandley1973.bsky.social by name, so maybe they were running out of word count. I do talk a lot.
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Paul Handley@paulhandley1973.bsky.social · last yr.My little press @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social had around 6k followers on Twitter… but like many I couldn’t be doing with the Musk version of it and deleted my account. I’d love you to give us a follow as we try to build it back up in preparation for giving this whole publishing thing another go!
Definitely one to follow 👇📚📚
Paul Handley@paulhandley1973.bsky.social · last yr.My little press @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social had around 6k followers on Twitter… but like many I couldn’t be doing with the Musk version of it and deleted my account. I’d love you to give us a follow as we try to build it back up in preparation for giving this whole publishing thing another go!
Thank you to @renardpress.com author Rose Diell who just tagged me in an Instagram video of her visit to @bertsbooks.bsky.social and there on the table, just inside the door, is Saltburn. Thanks so much ❤️🙏 Indie bookshops are the best bookshops. Fact.
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Paul Handley@paulhandley1973.bsky.social · last yr.My little press @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social had around 6k followers on Twitter… but like many I couldn’t be doing with the Musk version of it and deleted my account. I’d love you to give us a follow as we try to build it back up in preparation for giving this whole publishing thing another go!
My little press @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social had around 6k followers on Twitter… but like many I couldn’t be doing with the Musk version of it and deleted my account. I’d love you to give us a follow as we try to build it back up in preparation for giving this whole publishing thing another go!
Y'all need to buy shitloads of Saltburn and drive a wild demand for the Flamingo to get a new print run. Majestic work of desperate, booze-sodden tragicomedy. Main reason is so my blurb about Drew being Bukowski with a rainbow flag hanging out his arse pocket can adorn the cover tho 👌🏳️🌈🦩
Bearded Badger Books@beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social · last yr.A supreme body of work… in particular the two books I’m immensely proud to have played a tiny part in getting to readers. 🦩🏩
And @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social are doing a pop up bookshop in Derby’s newly refurbished Market Hall on Saturday coming. It’s a beautiful space (I was there last week. Loads of lovely food outlets too!) So why not go along. #BookSky #SupportIndieBookshops bsky.app/profile/bear...
Drew Gummerson@drewgum.bsky.social · last yr.Ever wondered how to find an agent? Make your name in literary magazines? Successfully negotiate a writing retreat? Finish off that first draft? None of those questions are answered here… YOU: From Pissed to Publication. £5. Available now! www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
Just me, waffling on and on about books… maybe it’s yer thing? 🤷🏻♂️
Bearded Badger Books@beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social · last yr.It’s FRIDAY!!! Must be time for the Friday Feature!!! Loads of incoherent waffling about books and a reminder we’ll be at the beautifully refurbed Derby Market Hall tomorrow (Sat 28th) for our Pop-up bookshop! youtu.be/GOVVCQVXpGo?...
This is a beautiful space… come and say hello!! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Bearded Badger Books@beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social · last yr.We’ll be doing our pop-up bookshop thing this coming Saturday at the beautifully refurbished Derby Market Hall - come and say hello, have a natter about books… we’ll have all the good stuff on the sales table!! 😊📚
Just home from work. Saltburn is on BBC1. I remember I’d already written my book, Saltburn, posted it online, when someone messaged me, do you know there’s a film? Saltburn? I thought, oh well, my book will never come out anyway, it doesn’t matter. I never had faith. Lesson. Have faith.
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Proper looking forward to this one… 🔥
Stu Hennigan@stuhennigan.bsky.social · last yr.“KESHED is a novel of fierce power, with a voice that rips from the page, propelled by desperate yearnings: for feeling, connection, for release from the tethers of addiction and trauma, society and self. It stares down hopelessness, and bursts with defiant desire.” @jamesscudamore.bsky.social
Thanks to all who've been keeping pace with my blog. It's hugely appreciated. Here's the latest post. Thoughts on intrinsic variables of the human condition. Music and movement... 52 Albums To Share A Soul : Part 21 🙏x lippykidmusic.substack.com/p/52-albums-...
The face of someone who is physically shattered but mentally restored… feeling thankful for our allotment and getting outside and doing stuff!
It must be the spring-like weather today… my pen runneth o’er!! My musings on Midlands indie bookshops! 😊📚
Bearded Badger Books@beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social · 2y agoFurther Substack shenanigans… this time a piece on Midlands* indie bookshops. I’d love you to have a read if you’ve got time. 😊📚 * the bit between the North and South open.substack.com/pub/beardedb...
Oodi Library in Helsinki might just be the best pace on earth… what a building! 😍
And here are some Dutch flamingos. I’ve tried to sell them a copy of Flamingo Hotel. Hard crowd…
