Sam Jordison

Lovely display of Telenovela in Foyles. Heart full of joy. Our book! Gonzalo’s wonderful writing. YESSS!

Overjoyed to see this in @foylesforbooks.bsky.social ! (and thanks to @markabowles.bsky.social for sending the picture.)

Two things to celebrate Happy publication day to this wonderful writer:

Here's our Telenovela publication day newsletter - full of glad tidings!

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Life no longer infinite Born in Chile, Gonzalo C. Garcia has long been based in Britain, yet his imaginative roots linger back home. His first novel, We Are the End (TLS,

"No human being is just one way, then. And Telenovela also suggests, quietly but boldly, that no political side is wholly virtuous either." Heart pounding. Not just a glowing review, but a real insight into the complexities of the "ambitious, unsettling" Telenovela:

www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

This is a cracking book

Did AI write this?

Telenovela by Gonzalo C. Garcia Review by Victoria Best The telenovela is a uniquely Latin American creation. It began as the radionovela, a drama told in episodes of 15 minutes that was broadcast during the daytime as enter

The first - splendid! - reviews of Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia have started arriving:

125. Sarah Hall, "Helm" - Across the Pond The wonderful writer Sarah Hall returns to the podcast, this time to talk about her latest novel Helm, in which the Helm Wind of Cumbria, England's Eden Valley has her own puckish point of view about ...

A special episode! An interview with Sarah Hall about her splendid new novel Helm: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Amazing facts about this unique - hurricane force! - wind and the inspiration it provided for Sarah.

All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles JUST WON best audiobook fiction at The Speakies! This is delightful! So pleased for @markabowles.bsky.social , @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social , wonderful reader Paul Hilton. And for us! www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...

Links, tips, suggestions Book recommendations for December, news about counter culture, revisiting Oral Sadism and The Vegetarian Personality, warm words about David Szalay, less warm words about Sensitivity Readers

A new Links,Tips and Suggestions. News about counter culture, warm words about David Szalay, less warm words about Sensitivity Readers open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/l...

A very generous and flattering profile of our press from the excellent Will Dady at @renardpress.com and in association with the splendid @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social : www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/articles/sam... I spoke - at great length! - and he very kindly and patiently took it all down...

This is wonderful!

Package from Galley Beggar press for new book Telenovela by Gonzalo C. Garcia with specially wrapped book, postcards and bookmark

Signed book

Cover of book

Back of book with blurb by A.L.Kennedy 'A strangely hopeful and deeply beautiful novel, steeped in an understanding of why a population would largely accept a fascist unreality over creativity and life.'

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Look at this for cheering up a wet day in Belfast. Cannot wait to read. You never disappoint with your care for writers, books and readers Galley Beggar Press ❤️

Telenovela by Gonzalo C. Garcia

New mail and current desk situation @galleybeggars.bsky.social (I got the book, thank you!)

Actual publishing Galley Beggar Press is about to release a new book: Telenovela and so I've been gainfully occupied for the last week or so...

Quick post about posting:

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Telenovela by Gonzalo C. Garcia - anti fascist, pro human literature

Our new newsletter is newsy: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...

Features glad tidings about this beauty:

Prize — Galley Beggar Press

Final few hours of our short story competition! You can still enter here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:

www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

Bookbanks A good deed in a weary world

Bookbanks is a wonderful new charity giving books to people at food banks. A simple, brilliant idea that everyone in the book world should get behind: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...

(We will also be very if you could share with your writer friends here - we're no longer active on other social media, so it would be wonderful if the message can be shared far and wide, here at Bluesky. Thank you so much!)

Jude Cook discusses his new novel, Time Being by Tim Relf With the countdown on to publication of Jude Cook’s ‘existential’ literary thriller, Time Being, House catches up with the acclaimed author to find out what makes him tick 1. Tell us a lit...

I talked to @timrelf.bsky.social about my forthcoming novel, TIME BEING, for @saltpublishing.com's House Magazine. Out September 2026, folks. www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-...

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?

You know what platform never crashes?

Was great to finally meet!

122. Chris Kraus, "The Four Spent the Day Together" - Across the Pond Chris Kraus is our guest as we explore her new book, The Four Spent the Day Together, a riviting account of a murder in rural Minnesota that complements a novelistic reflection of Kraus's own childhoo...

Chris Kraus! Talking about her scorching new novel The Four Spent The Day Together, alongside thoughts on how feminism should work, how social media doesn't - and more.

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Writers please spread far and wide. Six of my books were scraped by Meta (and the situation is much worse for many others). This cannot put right the past but it does enable readers to support publishers who value the work of actual writers. Thanks so much to those who have worked on this.

Frankfurt Book Fair 2025: Identity Stamps Two new startups, Books by People and Amlet, aim to certify a book’s authenticity in the AI era

The fact that our next book Telenovela is going to carry a Books By People stamp certifying that it is AI-free has also now been reported around the world in Publisher's Weekly: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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TELENOVELA — Galley Beggar Press This is a pre-order . Telenovela will be shipped on publication, in November 2025. All pre-orders will be signed first editions, and come with a book mark and three limited edition postcards. RE...

And please! If you want to support us - and get a wonderful book - we're taking pre-orders: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-sh...

Waterstones too: www.waterstones.com/book/telenov...

And bookshop.org : uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tele...

Or your local bookshop.

Startup launches ‘industry-first’ certification for human-made books UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification – the Organic Literature Certification – with a group of independent publishing houses to “counter AI-generated books”.

We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:

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The Death of the Authors

Latest in tech-pessimism: On my podcast, The Ned Ludd Radio Hour, I spoke to James Marriott and @samjordison.bsky.social about why literacy is declining and whether there's anything that can be done about it.

122. Chris Kraus, "The Four Spent the Day Together" - Across the Pond Chris Kraus is our guest as we explore her new book, The Four Spent the Day Together, a riviting account of a murder in rural Minnesota that complements a novelistic reflection of Kraus's own childhoo...

Had a fascinating conversation with I Love Dick author Chris Kraus on Across The Pond: www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/epis... Her new novel is a terrifying vision of America. She explains why here, alongside the kind of trenchant thoughts you’d expect on social media, feminism, the monsters in power…