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Drew Gummerson Blog · 2Y ago

Books to read beside the sea…

In summer our reading takes us inexorably to the sea. It may have been the Prince Regent, in the early nineteenth century, who made this flight to the coast fashionable with the remodelling of his summer palace, the glorious Brighton Pavilion. And so he might have taken with him on those summer jaun
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Drew Gummerson Blog · 2Y ago

Man on the Moon

Forty years ago on July 20th Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. Having travelled 250,000 miles across space he brought his NASA moonlander down with literally seconds of fuel to spare. It was true Boy’s Own stuff. To celebrate this fact over on the 50 Word Short Story group I’v
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Drew Gummerson Blog · 2Y ago

Holiday, writing, reading…

Just to recap before the film… Actually I’ve checked the cinema listings for tonight and there’s not one thing I want to see. Except the film with Eric Cantona in and the only showing of that was 12 midday. As it’s about two million degrees I might give that a miss. I’m pleased Eric became [...]
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Drew Gummerson Blog · 2Y ago

Pride Words / Gig

On Monday I’m appearing at Pride Words at Foyles bookshop in London. It’s the first time I’ve been asked to provide next of kin and emergency contact details for a reading so I’m wondering what kind of crowd they’re expecting. I had some trouble filling in the form as I don’t know what my mum’s [...
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Drew Gummerson Blog · 2Y ago

Live Literature Lives

On the stage in the Phrased and Confused tent at last year’s Summer Sundae festival I was asked if when I was writing ‘Me and Mickie James’ I knew that I would be expected to go out and read from it, living the ‘rock & roll’ lifestyle, as it were. My answer was simple. “No.” [...]
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Drew Gummerson Blog · 2Y ago

Write What You Know. George Orwell and all that.

Writers are often asked how much of their own life is contained in their writing. Running by the side of this is that old adage, write what you know. I haven’t given these matters much thought, but this blog will be my response. That it will be half-baked there is no doubt. In my defence [...]
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Drew Gummerson Blog · 3Y ago

A Day In The Life of a Writer. Yesterday.

I wake up. First thing I do is check the time. Have I overslept? I got home from work last night at 11 p.m. and then watched Question Time on the iPlayer. The one glass of wine I intended to have turned into several. Question Time turned into The Week. I like politics, especially when [...]
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Drew Gummerson Blog · 3Y ago

50 Word Animals

While we’re on the subject of animals, one of my favourite animal books is Timoleon Vieta Come Home and it’s by Dan Rhodes. This is a book that almost wasn’t because when he handed it to his then publisher they didn’t want to put it out. This is a shaggy dog story with a happy [...]
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Drew Gummerson Blog · 3Y ago

Mystery Man

Sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of the important things in your life, what with work, family, friends, loved ones and so on. For example, just a few minutes ago I was thinking, I really don’t have enough money. It was like a revelation. Take the other day as well, or other two days in [...]
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Drew Gummerson Blog · 3Y ago

The small publisher is dead. Long live the small publisher

I witnessed it myself, he was lying face down on the floor, blood pooling from his head. That he was dead, was quite obvious. Read the rest of this blog over on The Literature Network.
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