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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It's comments like this from readers (and writers, in this case, the excellent Rachel Canwell) that mean more to me than anything, regardless of prize listings and all the rest of it. Gonna do a short newsletter on this more to say thanks to the Insta book crew than anything else, if it wasn't 2/

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

for all the buzz on there, which was substantial, about Keshed being listed, I'd never have given the fucking Booker a second thought and I certainly wouldn't have been making any comments in public about it. But the fact that *readers* hold the book is such high regard is EVERYTHING to me; 3/

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

as nice as critical acclaim is, and fuck knows I could have done with the sales a Booker listing would have generated, none of that means anything compared to what readers think, cos god knows everyone in this game, esp at my level, would be fucked without em 🥰 4/

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