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The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

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@robtruestories.bsky.social verdict on Keshed. The Lord of Misrule was one of the first to read it and even HE thought it was dark so i knew i was on the right track.

Check out his novel with @influxpress.bsky.social if srsly hyperreal, hallucinatory dreamydruggy urban gothic is your kinda thing

From @influxpress.bsky.social, blending folkloric horror with explorations of womanhood against a backdrop of eco-anxiety, TENDER burrows into the quiet violence of overcoming and accepting our darkest sides...
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'A lush, intoxicating debut where secrets are poison and every touch carries the risk of contamination.'
– Kirsty Logan

A very happy publication day to Lauren DuPlessis! Her wonderful debut novel TENDER is out today.

www.influxpress.com/tender

'A lush, intoxicating debut where secrets are poison and every touch carries the risk of contamination.'
– Kirsty Logan

A very happy publication day to Lauren DuPlessis! Her wonderful debut novel TENDER is out today.

www.influxpress.com/tender

Tender Tender is the debut novel by Lauren Du Plessis. It plunges the reader straight into the life of archaeobotanist Nell, an anxious young woman who has lost her stable job documenting finds on pre-con…

This year I set myself the challenge of reading from my backlog of books published by independent presses. Lauren Du Plessis' Tender, from @influxpress.bsky.social, is book 27 from the list. It's immense. Find out why here thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/t...
Out 25/09/2025
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Tender is a brilliant novel. Buy it.
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Many thanks to @seanbirnie.bsky.social for the kind words….

PARADISE by @bentufnell.bsky.social is published March 2026 and pre-orders are now open.

www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...

PARADISE by @bentufnell.bsky.social is published March 2026 and pre-orders are now open.

www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...

Her Body Among Animals — Influx Press

From my selected 40 books on my physical To Read pile, I'm hoping to get to Paola Ferrante's Her Body Among Animals, published by @influxpress.bsky.social
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TOMORROW!

Two men and a book: Wayne Holloway and Jez Smith in conversation at Hastings Book Festival

20 Sept 2025
12:30 – 13:30

The Observer Building
53 Cambridge Rd
Hastings
TN34 1DT
UK

🎟️ £5.

www.hastingsbookfest.org/events/two-m...

Tender — Influx Press

Lauren du Plessis is a British writer of speculative, folkloric, and weird fiction. She lives in the bluebell-saturated chalk hills of the Chilterns with her family.

Tender is her first novel.

www.influxpress.com/tender

I have my Kickstarter pledge copy, am 54 pages in and already want to take the day off to do nothing but read this. It's magnificently creepy and beautifully written.
Pre-order it immediately!
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Blending folkloric horror with explorations of womanhood against a backdrop of eco-anxiety, Tender burrows into the quiet violence of overcoming and accepting our darkest sides.

TENDER, the powerfully atmospheric debut novel by Lauren DuPlessis, is back from the printer and looking fantastic!

Interested press + reviewers please DM or contact publicity@influxpress.com

Pre-order now. Published September 25th.

www.influxpress.com/tender

Tender — Influx Press

Lauren du Plessis is a British writer of speculative, folkloric, and weird fiction. She lives in the bluebell-saturated chalk hills of the Chilterns with her family.

Tender is her first novel.

www.influxpress.com/tender

Blending folkloric horror with explorations of womanhood against a backdrop of eco-anxiety, Tender burrows into the quiet violence of overcoming and accepting our darkest sides.

Under the pressure of a blazing summer, Nell whirlwinds into toxic romance, intense friendships, and the brutal process of reconciling her past and her future before the weight of it all buries her, too.

and the more her body manifests her own wildness in ways she can’t ignore.

When two ‘bog bodies’ are discovered in elaborate floral graves in a Somerset fen, Nell seizes the opportunity to excavate their secrets. But the deeper she digs into the fertile, waterlogged earth, the more she uncovers memories of her unsettled childhood and strained relationship with her sister…

Nell has curated a perfect museum of the self: a successful career in archaeobotany, a pastel Instagram filled with flowers, and an uncompromising manicure routine. She’s convinced that her veneer of perfection will mask the parts of her she’d rather not think about.

‘A lush, intoxicating debut where secrets are poison and every touch carries the risk of contamination. A story of obsession and transformation, written with the relentless creep of untamed weeds and the bite of a thistle.’
– Kirsty Logan

'An obsessive, oppressive, feverish work of folk-horror tangling and twining into body-horror... an odd, spiky and compelling read'
– Adam Leslie

‘Du Plessis weaves an intricate garland of folklore, body horror and elegant surrealism into this intriguing and disturbing novel’
– Lucie McKnight Hardy

TENDER, the powerfully atmospheric debut novel by Lauren DuPlessis, is back from the printer and looking fantastic!

Interested press + reviewers please DM or contact publicity@influxpress.com

Pre-order now. Published September 25th.

www.influxpress.com/tender

Ben Tufnell is a writer and curator based in London. His short stories have been published by Lunate, Nightjar Press, Storgy and Structo, amongst others, and included in Best British Short Stories 2024 (Salt Publishing).

His debut, The North Shore, was published by Fleet (Little, Brown) in 2023.

www.influxpress.com/paradise

Paradise — Influx Press

A world on the brink of collapse. Dense woods, mountains, a standing stone, a barrow, and a very old house. But if you’ve only ever known concrete and glass, how do you live in a place like this?

www.influxpress.com/paradise

Two men and a book: Wayne Holloway and Jez Smith in conversation | Hastings Book Fest

Two men and a book: and Jez Smith in conversation at the Hastings Book Festival

20 Sept 2025
12:30 – 13:30

The Observer Building
53 Cambridge Rd
Hastings
TN34 1DT
UK

🎟️ £5

www.hastingsbookfest.org/events/two-m...

A Foreign Country is the Past by Fernando Sdrigotti a great collection of short stories that aren’t pretending to not be a collection of short stories

'this beautiful, tight, collection that leads one to think about youth and ageing, about regret and shame, about blissful celebration of one’s chiefest memories…'

A FOREIGN COUNTRY IS THE PAST by Fernando Sdrigotti reviewed by @scottmanleyhadley.bsky.social

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