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 🏅
MD ANT 🏅
Friday. Day 1 of my annual leave. Nice.
September 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Friday. Day 1 of my annual leave. Nice.
Saturday morning…
August 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Saturday morning…
The lazy morning ended up being quite an energetic one… went for a nice 4.5mile walk around Cromford! 😎
August 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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! 😊
August 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A lazy, slow-paced, sunny Sunday morning… coffee, book and a snoozin’ schnauzer! Perfect! 😊
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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.
August 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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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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!
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!
July 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Definitely one to follow 👇📚📚
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!
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!
July 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Definitely one to follow 👇📚📚
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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.
Thanks so much ❤️🙏
Indie bookshops are the best bookshops. Fact.
July 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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.
Thanks so much ❤️🙏
Indie bookshops are the best bookshops. Fact.
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Follow the Badger!
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!
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!
July 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Follow the Badger!
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!
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!
July 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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!
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!
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Best advice I’ve ever heard…
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 👌🏳️🌈🦩
Main reason is so my blurb about Drew being Bukowski with a rainbow flag hanging out his arse pocket can adorn the cover tho 👌🏳️🌈🦩
A supreme body of work… in particular the two books I’m immensely proud to have played a tiny part in getting to readers. 🦩🏩
June 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Best advice I’ve ever heard…
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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 👌🏳️🌈🦩
Main reason is so my blurb about Drew being Bukowski with a rainbow flag hanging out his arse pocket can adorn the cover tho 👌🏳️🌈🦩
A supreme body of work… in particular the two books I’m immensely proud to have played a tiny part in getting to readers. 🦩🏩
The Lodger 2002 - Gay Mens Press
Me and Mickie James 2008 @jonathancape.bsky.social
Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social
You @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social
Saltburn @renardpress.com
Me and Mickie James 2008 @jonathancape.bsky.social
Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social
You @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social
Saltburn @renardpress.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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 👌🏳️🌈🦩
Main reason is so my blurb about Drew being Bukowski with a rainbow flag hanging out his arse pocket can adorn the cover tho 👌🏳️🌈🦩
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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!! 😊📚
June 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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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
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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...
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!
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None of those questions are answered here…
YOU: From Pissed to Publication.
£5.
Available now!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
June 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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...
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...
Just me, waffling on and on about books… maybe it’s yer thing? 🤷🏻♂️
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?...
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?...
Friday Feature: 27th June 2025
YouTube video by Bearded Badger Publishing & Books
youtu.be
June 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Just me, waffling on and on about books… maybe it’s yer thing? 🤷🏻♂️
This is a beautiful space… come and say hello!! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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!! 😊📚
June 23, 2025 at 7:46 AM
This is a beautiful space… come and say hello!! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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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.
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.
June 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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.
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.
A marvellous afternoon…
A top afternoon with literary (& publishing) greatness at @leedslitfest.bsky.social and always good to have a quick catch up with @stuhennigan.bsky.social 😎
June 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
A marvellous afternoon…
My alter ego… 😊
So back in the day I used to do a weekly waffle about books, the ‘Friday Feature’ - so if that sounds like your thing… it’s back!!
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Friday Feature: 20th June 2025 - featuring books on my radar this week!
YouTube video by Bearded Badger Publishing & Books
youtu.be
June 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
My alter ego… 😊
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SHOP | Ortac Press
Browse and purchase all books from Ortac Press.
www.ortacpress.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Proper looking forward to this one… 🔥
“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
May 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Proper looking forward to this one… 🔥
You want some? I’ll give it ya!
May 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
You want some? I’ll give it ya!
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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-...
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-...
April 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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-...
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!
March 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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! 😊📚
My musings on Midlands indie bookshops! 😊📚
Further 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
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* the bit between the North and South
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March 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It must be the spring-like weather today… my pen runneth o’er!!
My musings on Midlands indie bookshops! 😊📚
My musings on Midlands indie bookshops! 😊📚