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Drew Gummerson
@drewgum.bsky.social
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.

Indie Press supporter.

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📍Enderby,UK

https://linktr.ee/drewgum
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My new book Saltburn now has its own site.

With links to buy, reviews, soundtrack and interviews.

#BookSky

(And I recommend LinkTree to writers as it’s quick to set up and maintain.)

linktr.ee/SaltburnBook
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Literary delivery from @roadsongbooks.bsky.social.
The new novella by Alan Edward Roberts.
Gentle November is available to order right now.

roadsongbooks.com/product/gent...
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I wrote about my year in writing.

#WritingLife

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On a year in writing
This is my year in writing although I feel I have spent very little time writing this year.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I wrote about my year in writing.

#WritingLife

open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...
On a year in writing
This is my year in writing although I feel I have spent very little time writing this year.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Picture 'How Soon Is Now?' as a plucky David, facing the Goliath of Kaliane Bradley's 'The Ministry of Time' and triumphing in Amazon's Time Travel Romance and Time Travel Science Fiction charts...
Or just picture it as a damn fine read, and buy it now!

#BookSky

www.amazon.co.uk/How-Soon-Now...
December 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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It's the time of year when people are putting out lists of best books of the year. So why not tell an author you've loved their book this year? Because not being on those lists makes many authors sad. You can make them happy!
December 1, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
November 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Enjoyed this. A mum returns to Taipei with her young family to set up a noodle stand in the night market. Sex, love, life, in the city and the young girl - left-handed - is brilliant.

www.netflix.com/gb/title/830...
Watch Left-Handed Girl | Netflix Official Site
A mother and her two daughters move to Taipei to open a noodle stand at a vibrant night market, but family secrets and tradition test their fresh start.
www.netflix.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
David’s newsletter is one I look forward to, full of indie publishing news and events. Sign up!
My December newsletter is sent out to around two thousand clued-up subscribers tomorrow. If you're not already on the mailing list and would like a free copy, contact me via my website (scroll dowjn for email address): davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site
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November 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I’ve given up on Train Dreams. It’s really quite dull. Like other people’s dreams. It’s a shame, the book is so good.

I also tried The Beast in Me this week. Awful.

Both of these just fail to have anyone in them you might even care about a tiny bit.

www.netflix.com/gb/title/820...
Watch Train Dreams | Netflix Official Site
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
www.netflix.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Today could be a really good day to buy a copy of Birding from an independent bookshop, or perhaps even its poor neglected older sibling This Is Yesterday
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Well well well what do we have here then 👀👀👀👀👀👀

#StuGotKeshed
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Black Friday is here. Our subs are 33% off. What are you waiting for? SUBSCRIBE.
(Discount applied at checkout)

store.mcsweeneys.net/t/categories...
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Do you hate black Friday like a normal person?

Do you love books?

Two of mine are still on sale on the @srlpublishing.bsky.social website!

Belonging hardback for just £10.49:

srlpublishing.co.uk/product/belo...

Great Romances ebook for just £2.49:

srlpublishing.co.uk/product/grea...
Great Romances of the 20th Century – Robert Welbourn - SRL Publishing
We're all looking for The One. We all want to meet that one special person, fall in love, and live happily ever after, just like the movies. But what if it isn't?
srlpublishing.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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we open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental texts for a month starting Monday* ...

*in addition to rolling subs for reviews, interviews, extracts, textos en español & more

all info here:

oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
oleada.io
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
And it’s Free Shipping for Saltburn and all other books on @bookshop.org from 28th November to 1st December.

So please share and celebrate #IndieBlackFriday
November 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Lovely to see my book Saltburn on this @bookshop.org #IndieBlackFriday list @renardpress.com - click on the link and browse some indie publishing delights. Amazon doesn’t need ALL our money. 😂🙌

uk.bookshop.org/lists/an-ind...
An Indie Black Friday
While the billionaire retailers fall over themselves to sell us tat at bargain prices, independent publishers remain committed to putting out brilliant books.
uk.bookshop.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The tree is up!

#Christmas
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
And now five years and one day old! Thanks to everyone who liked and reposted.

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A very very happy 5th birthday to Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel.

🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂

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

www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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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!

www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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!

www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
After my calamitous bike accident had my first physio today. At a training centre with a lovely young man. I’ll see you out, he said at the end. Turn right and you end up in the morgue.
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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We have some amazing authors leaving us at the end of the year. This is the last chance to grab some of these incredible titles and support them for the foreseeable future.

All books in our store are 25% with the code NORTHODOXMAS until the new year
www.northodox.co.uk/bookstore
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM