Paul Handley

Haha… to be fair, you have been on my case about this - and you were true to your word in crafting the best of blurbs for it too!!

Thanks, Stu. Top man. X

Thanks, David! 😊

Friday. Day 1 of my annual leave. Nice.

Saturday morning…

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! 😊

It’s a cracker, eh?

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.

There will DEFINITELY be some new publishing… that I promise you! 🙌🏼

Thank you!! Hope you’re both well!! 😊

Thank you! 😊

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Thank you! 😊

Definitely one to follow 👇📚📚

A bookshop table with books on including my Saltburn.

A bookshop table with books on including my Saltburn.

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, David!

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!

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 👌🏳️‍🌈🦩

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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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Just me, waffling on and on about books… maybe it’s yer thing? 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is a beautiful space… come and say hello!! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Cover of my book, Saltburn. A seal sits under a beach umbrella.

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.

*blushing here chaps* 😊

Whoever said it isn’t wrong… top job today pal!!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

A marvellous afternoon…

My alter ego… 😊

You’ll already be familiar with most of these… but,

The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club by Richard Foster, Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Leslie, On The Greenwich Line by Shady Lewis, Saltburn by Drew Gummerson. 😊