Andrew Chapman

Bezos would lose even more power if bookshop.org UK would actually stock small publishers' books that aren't held in stock by the other monopoly: Gardners!

I made a thing… with quite a bit of help from Eric #Ravilious.

Ha, I used to have that book!

Warm thanks to Simon at @biggreenbooks.bsky.social for a very useful (if sobering) chat about the book supply chain! Go thee unto www.biggreenbookshop.com and help us all prop up this strange world of publishing.

DMs now bombarding you!

Thanks!

No harm in trying - thank you!

Ta!

Anyone? Is #publishing still alive on this platform? (Or does anyone actually read Bluesky..?)

Yeah, I'm feeling quite run down too. I can get to it tonight… but getting home is the problem. I think this might just be fate saying 'have a rest'! Hope you have a restorative evening if I don't see you there.

Or, er, not… trains are broken.

Been there too - great place! You at SC tonight? I'm hoping to but just discovered local trains are cancelled…

See you there!

Wearing my publishing consultant hat, are there any independent booksellers reading this who would be up for a quick conversation via DM or email? (Please share this if you know such a person.)

An overgrown trailer

A discarded child’s toy

A moss-covered tyre

Rusting metal and crab apples galore

Nature is patiently taking over in my favourite wood.

Thanks Mike. Yes, the book is my consolation option!

Desperate to get to this but a long way for me! Thanks for sharing.

Northern Earth issue 181

The new issue of Northern Earth is out! In this issue: Rosemary Pardoe on St Edmund and the wolf • #Megaliths in Portugal and Cornwall • Bewitching tape in Britain's hedges… • Sycamore Gap • and lots more.
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To Go Big or Come Home? On the Writing Life With Major and Indie Publishers

A solid take on the traditional publishing landscape here: www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-go-big-...

Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion Volume 4/Issue 1 PREORDER PLEASE NOTE: This is a presale and copies will be posted when available in September. If you have other items included in this order they will be...

I'd always recommend the indie journal Undefined Boundary (a great mix of hauntological/psychogeographical/countercultural themes), and of course especially so the latest one as it has my article about Charles Dickens and Richard Dadd in it 😀 temporalboundary.bigcartel.com/product/unde...

‘Feel free to call for quotation’ sign on random roadside, no number.

Just get in touch.

YouTube video by Beau Miles Watching this YouTube video will plant a forest

The always-inspiring YouTuber Beau Miles has a new project: for every 1000 views this video gets, he'll plant four trees (i.e. the value of the ad revenue). Watch and share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YF...

Thanks – yes, it really is spectacular in so many stretches!

Finally finished Offa’s Dyke Path yesterday (a third in 2021 and 2023, a third last week) – the first national trail I’ve actually completed! And with my 16yo son – happy times.

A little hint of folk horror thanks to a raven on today’s walk.

Mrs Protector, 1650 He's away on business, and doesn't get in touch enough!

My short piece about Oliver Cromwell and his wife Elizabeth seems to have struck a chord with people, including someone related to them. www.gethistories.com/p/mrs-protec...

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Ah great, hello! Not posting much (trying to minimise social media, nice as it is here) but came with the floods away from you-know-where. How are you?

All this has a history going back to 1612, and affinities with local wrestling traditions in Cumberland and Cornwall. 3/3 olimpickgames.co.uk/the-history/...

The most notorious event of course is the (surprisingly gripping!) shin-kicking contest… 2/3