Today's #PickoftheDay is Rhiannonw's "Dark and dreary". Few words with great impact, multum in parvo, indeed. Please share if you like it too. www.abctales.com/story/rhiann...

Today's #PickoftheDay is Rhiannonw's "Dark and dreary". Few words with great impact, multum in parvo, indeed. Please share if you like it too. www.abctales.com/story/rhiann...

One thing I really like about ABCTales is that people post their novels in progress there. Today I enjoyed Chapter 7 of Bron by Ivan Ok-ish. Give it a go! A Welsh woman returns to Holyhead from London… www.abctales.com/story/ivan-o...

Keeping it topical. My latest substack post. On Traitors, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Annexing Iceland. @renardpress.com @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

Angusfolklore brings the - unfulfilled? - past to life with this wonderful poem about a simple object in a cupboard: www.abctales.com/story/angusf...

It's Sunday, and what better time for a trip into the distinctly different world of Gwladys and Aefelthrith? This week, Aefelthrith and 'Arry take offence and Gwladys takes responsibility: www.abctales.com/story/philwh... @abctales.bsky.social

A response to our new Inspiration Point, 'a letter', this intensely moving poem by Jane Hyphen: Letter to Ann Lovett (1968 - 1984) www.abctales.com/story/jane-h...

Just doing a little pre-reading ahead of my visit to the Hotel Flamingo this weekend. @drewgum.bsky.social never fails to make me laugh; his surreal humour never fails to make me think of Vonnegut. I'm excited to get away.

Oh, and You also appears in Risky Business on Minor Literatures. This is also one of my Tom Cruise stories, of which I’ve written 20, and is a complete short story collection. minorliteratures.com/2024/04/18/r...

You (the writer) also appears in my Substack. You can read one such writerly episode here - open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

Pick of the Day - a well told story, even if wearyingly topical. www.abctales.com/story/macash...

Thanks to @robertwelbourn.bsky.social for this lovely review of my chapbook You: From Pissed to Publication. (And it’s £5 from @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social - all are numbered and signed) www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...

‘And on a dark night, I am not a refuge for myself’ @racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering

Great to see one of the new prints of Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel landing. Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for getting it out there again. And if you want a copy it’s £10 including P&P. www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...

And meanwhile my follow up, Saltburn, remains 50% off in @renardpress.com 2025 Book Promotion. You can get a copy of that for £5 here and go the full Gummerson. renardpress.com/books/saltbu...

Our wonderful Poem of the Week: www.abctales.com/story/jane-h...

January is a month of introspection for many of us. samhennig’s ‘Rainy day’ does this beautifully. It is today’s Pick of the Day. www.abctales.com/story/samhen...

Bron's fascinating life story continues in this Pick of the day. Please do share if you can www.abctales.com/story/ivan-o...

I wrote about Christmas. Or rather not. Featuring Saints by Tim MacGabhann @scratchbooks.bsky.social Marty Supreme, Saltburn royalties, a new story, and nothing about Christmas. open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

Today's Pick is a haunting response to this week's Inspiration Point. Don't say you weren't warned. www.abctales.com/story/soulfi...

A cautionary tale for our times from Mac Ashton: www.abctales.com/story/macash...

This moving tribute to a mother is our Sunday pick. www.abctales.com/story/skinne...

Got my royalty statement for Saltburn. It sold 24 copies in last six months. Selling books is tough. You can get it now for 50% off in Renard Press’s Books of 2025 promotion. Yours for £5. #SupportIndiePublishing renardpress.com/books/saltbu...

It’s got some great reviews! www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

I spent my weekend with Bycatch by @csmithpoet.bsky.social (@ninearchespress.bsky.social). These poems about caring for elderly parents, exploring memory and home, are raw, intimate, and intricately captured. This collection will stay with me for a long time! 💙

Aefelthrith, Gwladys and their fellow travellers are back and dealing with an entirely different set of problems from ours! This week, Gwladys is organising, Dolly is scheming and 'Arry makes an unfortunate discovery: www.abctales.com/story/philwh... @abctales.bsky.social

Ferg wants to know. Have you ordered your copy of Saltburn yet? It’s currently £5 in Renard Press’s Best Books of 2025 sale. #Books #IndiePublishing renardpress.com/books/saltbu...

Our Friday Pick of the Day is another treat from Ivan the OK-ish! The third part of this novel is as funny and intriguing as the the rest, and you can read it as a stand-alone if you haven't caught up with the rest of it yet: www.abctales.com/story/ivan-o...

Saltburn is a great book, one of my top 10 from last year. For a fiver it's an absolute steal!

My book, Saltburn, is part of @renardpress Books of the Year promotion and is 50% off!! Gaily representing March… it’s here for just £5. ** Please share if you can 🙏** Go Indie Publishing #Books renardpress.com/books/saltbu...

And here is what you might be getting for your £5 Saltburn trip…

Turlough’s monthly diary updates have woven themselves into the very fabric of ABCTales. Here’s another that doesn’t disappoint and is essential reading. “How to Make Money with a Broken Spirograph” is today’s Pick of the Day. www.abctales.com/story/turlou... Please share if you can.

So pleased that this poem has found a home in the wonderful Shooter Literary Magazine! ✨ 'Eulogy for my grandfather as Prospero' is part of Issue 20: Sweet Hereafter 🧙‍♂️

One to bring a smile in the sludge of January! This is GlosKat's different take on a fairy tale: www.abctales.com/story/gloska...

A poem from my collection, In the Shadow of Gods. It’s called January. 🖼️ Winter Tale, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, 1904.

Today's Pick of the Day is Bron-2 part two of Ivan the Ok-ish's Bron about a young Welsh woman's experiences in that there Lunnon. It rings true, and fiction doesn't get better than that. www.abctales.com/story/ivan-o... Start here: www.abctales.com/collection/b...

And that’s a lovely birthday present, a new review of Saltburn. 😊😍 from @penofryandennis.bsky.social

A poem from my collection, In the Shadow of Gods, Hoar Frost. 🖼️ Hoar-frost And Stars, Gustaf Fjaestad.

Story and Poem of the Month now LIVE on ABCTales! www.abctales.com/blog/insertp...

Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉 If you want to start your 2026 off with some poetry, Circulaire is a pamphlet about farewells, new beginnings, and coming full circle 💛 Available from Written Off Publishing here: tinyurl.com/4cw3e27r Or DM me/comment for a signed copy, £10 via PayPal, I cover p&p ☕️

In need of a little distraction from events? Here's another brilliant short from Terrence Oblong: www.abctales.com/story/terren...

Pick of the Day - for the early stages of the New Year, a good piece of introspection (and redemption of sorts). www.abctales.com/story/itane-...

This wonderful Holiday story from Jane Hyphen is Pick of the Day! Please do share, if you can www.abctales.com/story/jane-h...

And so here we are. 55 today! A walk along the beach in Saltburn, watching out for the killer seals, and mermaids, and then off to a party at the Flamingo Hotel.

Some terrific pieces posted today. It was very hard to choose one. After much deliberation: hudsonmoon’s “The Other Side of the Attic Window II” gets us off to a great start for 2026. It’s Pick of the Day. www.abctales.com/story/hudson... Happy New Year to you all.

And this is our final Pick of the Day for 2025 and what an apt one, as we raise a glass for those both with us and absent. Happy New Year all. Enjoy Turlough’s On the patch where the wild strawberries grew www.abctales.com/story/turlou...

Ok, I'm delighted to say that there will be a New Year's Eve short story. I wasn't sure if it was going to happen, and it is still a work in progress, but I'm pretty pleased with it, so far. Watch ABCTales for more :-) www.abctales.com/user/philwhi... @abctales.bsky.social

This year's seasonal stories: www.abctales.com/story/philwh... www.abctales.com/story/philwh... www.abctales.com/story/philwh... @abctales.bsky.social

A great piece of descriptive, atmospheric writing from markashley is our Pick for today. Definitely one to be read out loud and truly relished for its use of language. www.abctales.com/story/markas...

Today's #PickoftheDay is Terrence Oblong's first part of a longer piece about an Ernest being important 'The Baron von Ernest goes on tour'. Quirky, funny and so typically Oblong, I defy you not to smile. www.abctales.com/.../baron-vo...