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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A new career in ribald smut awaits. Hoorah! Big thanks to @davidcollard.bsky.social

Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This post resulted in a little rush of subscribers to our chapbook series. Thank you! Very soon we’ll be turning our attention to December’s book, by @luluallison.bsky.social But first, if anyone else wants @drewgum.bsky.social’s Gregor, come and say hello! About 10 copies left and then that’s it!

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My two chapbooks: YOU: From Pissed to Publication @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social Gregor @sunburntsaints.bsky.social www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store... sunburntsaints.co.uk

The two chapbooks side by side on a rug.

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you go down to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social in Derby today you’re sure of a @sunburntsaints.bsky.social bug-tastic surprise. My chapbook Gregor on sale and a Badger Pick!

Gregor chapbook on a shelf at Bearded Badger Books in Derby

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Bearded Badger Books @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lovely to get a visit from Andy (aka @sunburntsaints.bsky.social ) to drop off copies of the new @drewgum.bsky.social chapbook, Gregor!! £5!! Cheaper than a pint!! Brilliant!! #booksky #indiepublisher #indiebookshop #books

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Some beautiful reviews coming in for @drewgum.bsky.social’s Gregor, our first of many chapbooks. Thank you to everyone who has commented, reposted, ordered the books and supported. You’re all lovely x

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Heidi James @heidijames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fantastic start to the Sunburnt Saints chapbook series. @drewgum.bsky.social @sunburntsaints.bsky.social

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Latest article. On Vacances. In Nice. Some reading. Some writing. A new fiction prize. Cheese. Wine. Iron men. @renardpress.com @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social drewgummerson.substack.com/p/on-vacance...

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On Vacances

Writing and reading and the cure

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is great to hear! It’s why we do what we do. Thank you, @andyhumphrey11.bsky.social

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A huge thank you to @thispersona.bsky.social for this fine review of Gregor @sunburntsaints.bsky.social “Subversive and hilarious, this is a study of body and soul, an audacious retelling of an old classic which Kafka himself would surely endorse.” www.abctales.com/blog/insertp...

Copies of the chapbook Gregor. Light blue cover. A couple of bugs.

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You, too, could be as delighted as Ian. An annual £20 subscription means you’ll be delighted four times a year. Be like Ian. Sunburntsaints.co.uk

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Ian Critchley @iancritchley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Delighted to receive my copy of @drewgum.bsky.social's new story. First of a new chapbook series by the resurrected @sunburntsaints.bsky.social Saints alive!

Front cover of Gregor, a short story by Drew Gummerson, published by Sunburnt Saints. Plain light blue cover

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Andy Humphrey @andyhumphrey11.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Safely received, thank you. It looks great and @drewgum.bsky.social is a fine writer, so I'm sure it will be a great read also.

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

All these have been sent out now. So if you’re a subscriber, don’t go too far from your letterbox, there’s a chapbook on its way. And if you’re not, we have a few copies still needing a home. Not many, though. £20 gets you this and three more during the year. Head to Sunburntsaints.co.uk Thank you!

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Copies of my chapbook Gregor have arrived at the publisher’s from the printer. Don’t they look fab! Available on subscription from sunburntsaints.co.uk or in @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social in Derby soon.

Copies of Gregor. Blue cover with bugs on it.

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

These will be going out to subscribers this week. Nice, eh? @drewgum.bsky.social #shortstory #chapbook

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’ve got three stories to go and then I’ve finished editing the 22 stories of Hotdog Tales for Lean Days. Wile E. Coyote features in one story and I see he’s now got his own film. A hotdog tale if ever there was one. Oh and Gregor, one of them, out soon. @sunburntsaints.bsky.social

Cover for Gregor. Blue. With a couple of bugs.

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Gregor… Coming very soon. You want bugs. You’ll get bugs.

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just waiting to hear a delivery date from the printers. Won’t be long now until Gregor by @drewgum.bsky.social will be out in the world, available as part of an annual short story subscription at Sunburntsaints.co.uk

Sky blue book cover showing title Gregor and author’s name as Drew Gummerson. Two tiny bugs top right and bottom left.

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

‘’The lawn was a mess, scorched and brown, spotted with coloured daisies, ragwort, red clover and dandelions, but it yours, so you loved it… you’d christened that too, sticky and sultry in the pristine moonlight, clothes scattered like weeds all around.’ P. 97 #booksky @stuhennigan.bsky.social

Photo of the novel KESHED (seen on the shelves of Bard Books on Roman Road, East London). ‘Ultimately devastating’ is written on the brief bright yellow note of description.
The bust of a man and its mirror image join base to base on the cover. The name of author Stu Hennigan appears upside down at the bottom.

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Very happy to have prerecorded an interview for The Late Late Book Show starting next Wednesday at 11pm. I talk about my new chapbook Gregor @sunburntsaints.bsky.social, @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social Saltburn @renardpress.com - info in the link👇👇👇👇 thelatelatebookshow.co.uk

Poster for The Late Late Book Show. Featuring a smiling me, the covers of all my books.

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Latest Substack is up: On Marketing Yourself and Being Exhausted. Including: @galleybeggars.bsky.social In Praise of Booksellers, some praise of booksellers, @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social, a little bit about being exhausted, indie presses. Etc. drewgummerson.substack.com/p/on-marketi...

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On Marketing Yourself and Being Exhausted

Don’t believe everything you read. Just some of it.

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Thank you 🙏🏻 to our latest subscribers, we’ve had a rush on this afternoon! Probably as we’re now at LAST CALL stage to ensure you get a copy of Drew’s chapbook, Gregor, which is soon off to the printers! Want to be included? Sunburntsaints.co.uk But you’ll need to be quick!

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you missed it earlier in the week, we’re gearing up to print the first in our new series of chapbooks by subscription, Gregor by @drewgum.bsky.social Finalising print runs so if you were thinking about subscribing, now would be a good time. Sunburntsaints.co.uk

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Latest substack is up: On rewriting Kafka. Featuring: Kafka Metamorphosis. Or transformation. Hotdog stories. Prague. Mission Impossible Bugs. Or cockroaches. Or filthy vermin. drewgummerson.substack.com/p/on-rewriti...

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On rewriting Kafka

It’s a metamorphosis. Or transformation.

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“One morning as Gregor awoke from beautiful dreams he found his mother and father transformed into the most horrible vermin…” Kafka. But not as you know it. Gregor. Coming soon from sunburntsaints.co.uk @sunburntsaints.bsky.social

Cover of chapbook. Blue. Gregor on it. The O is a bug. There are two other bugs on the cover.

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We are finalising print numbers now - And once they’re gone they’re gone! £20 gets you four original short stories in individual chapbooks per year. After Drew, next up it’s @luluallison.bsky.social. 2027 will see @heidijames.bsky.social & maybe a certain author of Keshed, among others… Good, eh?

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

First chapbook, @drewgum.bsky.social’s Gregor, is in ‘small revisions required but nearly there’ stage of design. If you e been wondering whether to subscribe to our chapbook series but not yet done so, now would be a good time. Finalising print run. No reprints.

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hm. 50 pages is enough to read of a new book and say No, not for me, not my thing at all, wish I’d not bought it, etcetera. Isn’t it? Because that’s what just happened.

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This afternoon. All things bright and beautiful, et cetera.

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Fabulous mini-book haul from Topping & Co in York. So pleased to see their range of little chapbook-type books, too.

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Sorry if we’re becoming annoying, with our exhortations to subscribe to our little chapbooks. But hey, we need you. And besides, we’re relatively new here and it’s harder to make friends than it used to be on the old Twitter! Anyway, we’re a tiny Indy press, looking for short story lovers. #BookSky

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Bearded Badger Books @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Always a pleasure to get a visit from the LEGENDARY @drewgum.bsky.social 🦩🏩 #booksky #indiebookshop #indiepublishing

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Visited @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social in Derby today at Bustler. It’s fantastic. Signed some books. Bought some books. Had a pint and a pizza. It’s an amazing indie space. Beautiful! @renardpress.com

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

An interesting read. I remember travelling across the US by car in the late 80s. Pulled into a gas station. Attendant said Where you boys heading? Told him Phoenix. He said, Phoenix? Shit. That place hot even when it cloudy. Never forgotten the moment or the line.

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Was a pleasure answering Drew’s questions. If you want to know more about Sunburnt Saints or me (Andy), take a look!

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Was a pleasure answering Drew’s questions. If you want to know more about Sunburnt Saints or me (Andy), take a look!

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

And on today’s Substack, a first for me, an interview with Andy Leach, chief saint, at @sunburntsaints.bsky.social a brand new short story publisher - please check it out and share if you can. Support short stories. Support indie publishers! substack.com/@drewgummers...

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On Sunburnt Saints -an interview with a brand new short story publisher.

My first Substack interview.

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

All 5 of my author interview videos are up now. Filmed on the rooftop of my local cinema. We take in getting the 1st book published, finding an agent, working with a big publisher, then small indies. The best advice - find your own path. Enjoy it. Book 1 - The Lodger. youtu.be/RE--W04EHWY?...

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Author Interview - in conversation with Drew Gummerson (Part1)

YouTube video by Boxroom Books

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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I had two great English teachers. Bob Jope, who leant 12 year old me his copy of Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks to teach me lyricism. And James Loader, who, on having to teach 16 year old boys Pride & Prejudice, announced, Gentlemen, Jane Austen was a suppressed lesbian & you’re going to find out why.

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And the last of my author interviews. Here talking short stories with shout outs to @sunburntsaints.bsky.social @abctales.bsky.social Pistol Jim Press, Punk Noir Press, Revolution John. youtu.be/liY_zc-BhNk?...

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Author Interview - in conversation with Drew Gummerson BONUS FEATURES

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