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Drew Gummerson
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Writer of The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. Lambda Award Finalist. Leicestershire Short Story Prize winner. Saltburn - Feb 2025.

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📍Enderby,UK

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#ICYMI as below. Very honoured for my book Saltburn to be included in this @renardpress.com 2025 book a month 50% off sale.

Hit the link and fill your book bags. Or tell a friend.

#SupportIndiePublishing

For some fab books.
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#ICYMI we’re not done with 2025 yet!

We’ve highlighted a book a month - fab books that might have passed you by. They’re half price – this last week only – so do swing by – and if you missed any, fill yer boots! The 2026 You will appreciate it… 😁

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January 25, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Last few days of Saltburn being in Renard Press’ Best of 2025 promotion.

50% off
£5

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Dave Appleby ... 5 books • 11 followers Following 大 April 16, 2025 In terms of sheer invention, this might be one of the most creative books I have ever read. Saltburn is a set of six overlapping stories in which the weird and wonderful is everyday. Except for Stick of Rock, each story is a surreal bildungsroman of a young boy (at least to start with) involving poverty, parental loss and sexual awakening amid a series of ever more extraordinary adventures. Ryan Dennis ... 2 books • 27 followers Friends ** January 2, 2026 Reading Saltburn, as with all of Gummerson's books, is like having a best friend with you...one that will say outrageous things, continually surprise you, and never let you get sick of them. I highly recommend it. 1 like Like O Comment Adam ... 4 books • 16 followers Friends ** October 29, 2025 This collection of interwoven stories is like a fever dream and Gummerson is an English Vonnegut. I assure you that this statement will make complete sense to you by the time you've reached, I'd say, page 6. What a bloody delight. 3 likes うるト Robert Welbourn ... 4 books • 15 followers Following * June 17, 2025 a fantastic collection of intertwining stories. Gummerson's writing and sense of humour are reminiscent of Vonnegut at his finest; his writing is as heartfelt as it is hilarious, and these tales will entertain and comfort every reader. I cannot recommend this book more.
January 27, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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Had a short story accepted this morning. It marks the return of my character Tod Towski who I first wrote about 40 years ago at school.

Which makes it the longest running detective series in history with the biggest break?
A photo of Tod Towski from my school newspaper…
January 26, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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#ICYMI as below. Very honoured for my book Saltburn to be included in this @renardpress.com 2025 book a month 50% off sale.

Hit the link and fill your book bags. Or tell a friend.

#SupportIndiePublishing

For some fab books.
renardpress.com Renard Press @renardpress.com · 3d
#ICYMI we’re not done with 2025 yet!

We’ve highlighted a book a month - fab books that might have passed you by. They’re half price – this last week only – so do swing by – and if you missed any, fill yer boots! The 2026 You will appreciate it… 😁

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January 25, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Featuring @drewgum.bsky.social @timewins.bsky.social @mayeroflondon.bsky.social @greeningpoet.bsky.social @steverinod.bsky.social @annmorgan.bsky.social @bookwormvaught.bsky.social & the Curae Gang… and more! ❤️
January 25, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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#ICYMI we’re not done with 2025 yet!

We’ve highlighted a book a month - fab books that might have passed you by. They’re half price – this last week only – so do swing by – and if you missed any, fill yer boots! The 2026 You will appreciate it… 😁

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January 25, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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It’s the last week of Saltburn being 50% off in Renard Press’s Best of 2025 promotion. Book your visit for £5.

It’s one novella, four novelettes, and a short story. It’s queer. It’s bonkers. It has killer seals. It has mermaids.

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On the six month anniversary of my book, Saltburn.
Today Saltburn is six months old.
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January 23, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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It’s the last week of Saltburn being 50% off in Renard Press’s Best of 2025 promotion. Book your visit for £5.

It’s one novella, four novelettes, and a short story. It’s queer. It’s bonkers. It has killer seals. It has mermaids.

renardpress.com/books/saltbu...

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On the six month anniversary of my book, Saltburn.
Today Saltburn is six months old.
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January 23, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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And the hotel is still taking bookings, i.e. you can still buy the book from @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social
drewgum.bsky.social Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · Nov 26
A very very happy 5th birthday to Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel.

🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂

🦩🏩

Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!

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Me and the Bearded Badger holding up copies of Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel Me signing copies of Flamingo Hotel on a table at Derby Market Hall Endorsements in new edition- Praise for Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel "Drew Gummerson is one of the funniest writers around - the PG Wodehouse of the flophouse. Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel is a riot. A crazy pink tribute - the most under of underdogs." Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul "A gut-wrenching masterpiece of booze-sodden tragicomedy and a genuine cult classic. Drew Gummerson is an incredibly skilful and versatile writer, coming across in Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel like the ghost of Charles Bukowski with a rainbow flag hanging out of his arse pocket." Stu Hennigan, author of Ghost Signs "Probably the most original, exciting and creatively invigorating book I've read this year - like On The Buses meets lain Banks." Jamie Mollart, author of Kings of a Dead World
January 22, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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Great to see Saltburn in @luluallison.bsky.social books of year.

And it’s currently 50% off at @renardpress.com

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January 21, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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3/3
Machines in the Head, Selected Short Writing, Anna Kavan.
Perhaps my favourite.

All from encounters, recommendations, gifts and random selections. I suppose just like the ones I liked not so much. But it always feels like luck, landing on a great book, doesn’t it?
A pile of the 13 books mentioned in the texts.
January 21, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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2/3

Precious Bane, Mary Webb
Saltburn, Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social
Monolithic Undertow, Harry Sword, @harrysword.bsky.social
The Orange Notebooks, Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social
Aednan, Linnea Axelson
Two Similar Looking Men Zena Barry @zenabarrie.bsky.social

Continued⬇️
January 21, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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Great to see Saltburn in @luluallison.bsky.social books of year.

And it’s currently 50% off at @renardpress.com

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January 21, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Watching Some Like it Hot with the boys and their flamingos.
Tony Curtis as Josephine in Some Like it Hot Two black Labradors. Two flamingos. One foot.
January 21, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Very happy that my home town Leicester has made the national BBC News.

A peacock that went on the run has returned home.

Shame it wasn’t a flamingo as it would have been a good plug for my book, Flamingo Hotel..

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January 21, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Keeping it topical.

My latest substack post.

On Traitors, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Annexing Iceland.

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On Traitors, the Nobel Prize for Literature and Annexing Iceland
You think about going on Traitors. It would be a good advertisement for your books. But you don’t know if you are the right kind of gay, well-dressed and personable. Able to pull off the obligatory cu...
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January 20, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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Keeping it topical.

My latest substack post.

On Traitors, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Annexing Iceland.

@renardpress.com
@beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social

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On Traitors, the Nobel Prize for Literature and Annexing Iceland
You think about going on Traitors. It would be a good advertisement for your books. But you don’t know if you are the right kind of gay, well-dressed and personable. Able to pull off the obligatory cu...
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January 20, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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Thanks to @robertwelbourn.bsky.social for this lovely review of my chapbook You: From Pissed to Publication.

(And it’s £5 from @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social - all are numbered and signed)

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Short and sweet, hilarious and devastating. Really enjoyed it.
January 17, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Just doing a little pre-reading ahead of my visit to the Hotel Flamingo this weekend.

@drewgum.bsky.social never fails to make me laugh; his surreal humour never fails to make me think of Vonnegut.

I'm excited to get away.
The cover of You: From Pissed to Publication by Drew Gummerson.
January 16, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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And meanwhile my follow up, Saltburn, remains 50% off in @renardpress.com 2025 Book Promotion.

You can get a copy of that for £5 here and go the full Gummerson.

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Saltburn – Renard Press
May the residents of the real Saltburn-by-the-Sea and neighbouring towns forgive my mermaids, my nuclear power stations, my foetus museums and so on and so on. They were written with love. Welcome to ...
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January 15, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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Great to see one of the new prints of Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel landing.

Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for getting it out there again.

And if you want a copy it’s £10 including P&P.

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January 15, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Thank you @davidcollard.bsky.social for a really lovely online book launch for @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Laurel and Hardy anthology My Ear is full of Milk. I shall be getting a copy. Some brilliant readings. I laughed and was moved.

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My Ear Is Full of Milk, An anthology of writing for Laurel & Hardy | Broken Sleep Books
A love letter to the greatest double act in cinema, My Ear Is Full of Milk gathers poets, essayists, and storytellers who have spent a lifetime laughing with, and thinking through, Laurel & Hardy....
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January 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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Great to see one of the new prints of Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel landing.

Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for getting it out there again.

And if you want a copy it’s £10 including P&P.

www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
January 15, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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#Bookpost Looking forward to reading this, finally @drewgum.bsky.social. Hooray for the new print run. With thanks @ronanhession.bsky.social for the recommendation
Seven Nights at the Hotel Flamingo tastefully shot on my kitchen table
January 15, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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I wrote about Christmas. Or rather not.

Featuring Saints by Tim MacGabhann @scratchbooks.bsky.social Marty Supreme, Saltburn royalties, a new story, and nothing about Christmas.

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On Christmas. Or rather not.
It’s over now, Christmas and New Year.
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January 12, 2026 at 10:47 AM