And my latest Saltburn is £5, 50% off for Pride, along with other queer delights at @renardpress.com renardpress.com/books/saltbu...

🚨 HALF-PRICE FOR #PRIDE 🚨 Step this way for novels, short stories, poetry, theatre and anthology, celebrating all stripes of the spectrum ❤️🌟 Spread the joy and support Queer creatives, and if there’s room on your bookshelves, there’s 50% off the list. You know what to do! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Link in bio 👆

Happy #PrideMonth from The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, all the staff at The Flamingo Hotel, all the visitors to Saltburn and, most importantly, You. 25 years I’ve been putting gay/queer fiction out there, being positive, vying for visibility. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @renardpress.com @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social

Conversations with a Machine by Ruth Irwin I was sceptical of this, but Ruth is a friend. I was glad to see that in her poetic exploration of the capabilities of LLMs she was able to see its sycophantic tendencies and limitations through the surface appearance of creativity. Buy @renardpress.com!

Fab review of Saltburn. And I love this because it celebrates Saltburn’s queerness which is exactly what the book was supposed to be about. 🏳️‍🌈 youtu.be/17ysV15iKNI?...

Blown away by the prose of this tiny novella 'At the End of the Sidewalks' by Baptise Thery-Guilbert, about the coming of age of a gay teenager in the south of France published by @renardpress.com My full review: bit.ly/4ucepKN #Booksky 💙📚 #Books 📚 #Literaturesky

Lovely for Saltburn to get a mention in this list of books that embrace the absurd. In great company with AM Homes and Hitchhikers, amongst others. @renardpress.com youtu.be/qABMiovl784?...

Today I review STUPID STORIES FOR TOUGH TIMES by @andrewcrowther.bsky.social A collection of clever satirical tales in the vein of Swift, Shaw, Gilbert etc. #booksky ruinedchapel.com/2026/05/22/b...

"Sometimes it can be the shortest books which pack the biggest punch... These witty and profound pieces of writing will make you look at things anew and approach the world in a different way, as well as entertaining you." kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2024/08/19/c...

My collection of fables and fantasies, "Stupid Stories for Tough Times", is now available as an ebook: "Delightful!" Mike Leigh "beautiful, quirky bits of wisdom [which are] continuing to haunt me in a gentle, understated way.” J.M. Hall @renardpress.com books.apple.com/gb/book/stup...

Saltburn is now available as an ebook. ‘A literary Naked Gun’ ‘echoes of Bukowski, Hunter S Thompson and Burroughs’ ‘an English Vonnegut’ All for about a fiver. amzn.eu/d/0atDGdoB @renardpress.com

For this month’s #shufflingtheshelves we’re delighted to reintroduce you to Alex Humphreys’ Playing with Reality: #Gaming in a Pandemic. We chatted to Alex last week about the inspiration for the book and what went on behind the screens… (link in bio) 🎮👾 #bookthreads #gamingbooks #videogame

‘In these illiberal times, when the most obvious truisms in opposition to injustice and cruelty have been beaten into retreat, is it not a good thing to read Voltaire at his angriest and wittiest and to be reminded of the truth of the liberal values he espoused?’ 💪

A delicious eve with Guilbert Thery-Guilbert & translator Trask Roberts at the iconic @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social last night – a few snaps here… Marseille might be out of reach this Friday, but Queer Marseille can come to you! Signed copies available while stocks last at Brick Lane & our site 🙌

Q: What is Emergency Voltaire? A: I'm glad you asked me that, Q. It's a completely new selection by me from Voltaire's sharpest and most fearless writings, defending humane, tolerant values against fanaticism, tyranny & intolerance. Q: Oh. Nice. @renardpress.com renardpress.com/books/emerge...

Very dramatic music Messages flash up on a black background: HOLD YOUR HORSES BIG REVEAL APPROACHING COMING THIS AUGUST Then, louder & more dramatic than ever: EMERGENCY VOLTAIRE (I put it together, buy it in August, it'll be really good) @renardpress.com renardpress.com/books/emerge...

Delighted to officially introduce you to Maybe the World Will End So We Won’t Have To, the glorious literary autofiction by Natasha Bell, out 1st Sept. 🖼️ #coverreveal #bookstagram #beautifulbooks #bookig renardpress.com/books/maybe-...

This 🦊 is all packed and ready for @thepoetrysociety Free Verse Fair tomorrow - see you there?

🚨 NEXT WEEK! 🚨 Calling all #bookreviewers, #readers, #booksellers! Join us as literary explorer @annmorgan.bsky.social introduces two e-showcases, hosted by Marina @corylusbooks.bsky.social, and discover this season’s hottest indie titles! 🙌

Bloggers, reviewers, booksellers, lend us your ears! Sign up for this brilliant preview of the best new titles on the indie scene this season… 🙌

📷 Five years. The archive has just burst on to another shelf, so we decided it needed dusting off and rearranging. Good use of a Tuesday morning. 🙌 Can you spy any of your favourites? 🌟 And now off to answer some emails, chuffed with all the Renard family has achieved 🦊 🧡

@renardpress.com 'Conversations with a machine' by Ruth Irwin is a remarkable collaboration between human and AI that has resulted in 14 wonderful sonnets: bit.ly/42gyt2K #Booksky 💙📚 #Books 📚 #Literaturesky

New interview with me over on the Substack. Thank you @paulburston.bsky.social for the questions. substack.com/@paulburston...

After a slow start (publisher in Italy, luggage not), a brilliant first day at Bologna Book Fair – brilliant bookish conversations and pasta, Prosecco and a palazzo 🍝🍾 And this morning the Renard stand is finally complete! 📚 🙌

The book was published in February 2026 by @renardpress.com haywoodbooks.com/the-midwifes...

I hope you’ll be there! I’m so glad that the multiple award-winning indie @renardpress.com understood my mission with these teaching books and has taken on publication of three more after The Elixir. The best thing for me was to create my own ecosystem for my nonfiction work and a stable platform 💙📚

Looking forward to tomorrow's Indie Press Fair... 🧡 @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social @indienovella.bsky.social @renardpress.com @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk @waterstones.bsky.social @dauntbooks.bsky.social @theguardian.com @telegraph.co.uk @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @thespectator1828.bsky.social

Another classic writer unearthed by @renardpress.com My review of Horacio Quiroga's collection of short stories in a new translation: bit.ly/4cg82A1 #Booksky 💙📚 #Books 📚 #Literaturesky

Please join me for this special Alternative Book Fair *Plus* event on Thursday, April 16th, at 6.30pm: Human Writes: Exploring the Challenges of Writing and Promoting Books in the Age of AI and Social Media. The panel includes acclaimed authors Winnie M. Li and Luke Jennings. 🧵

My final review of the month is for #ReadingIrelandMonth26 and in it I explore the poetry of #Yeats @renardpress.com - kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/h...

The Alchemy (2023) and The Elixir (October, 2026) side by side - and by the autumn of 2029, the five book series will be complete The Alchemy The Elixir The Tincture The Ember The Grimoire All from the exemplary @renardpress.com

Out this October More news soon 💙📚

🚨 #CoverReveal 🚨 Delighted to unveil the 2nd title in the gentle writers’ guides series by @bookwormvaught.bsky.social 🌟 Head this way for more no-holds-barred honesty on the industry, actionable tips while safeguarding well-being and plenty of no-nonsense advice. renardpress.com/books/the-el...

Making plans for the weekend? May we suggest joining us this Saturday for @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social's Poetry Salon at the glorious Keats House Museum along with @arachnepress.bsky.social @renardpress.com @goatstarbooks.bsky.social and four divine poets 👀👇. Info and booking here: bit.ly/47a4KLT

Happy 1st Birthday to my short story collection Saltburn! 🧂🔥🥳🍾🎊 @renardpress Reviews: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... Buy: renardpress.com/books/saltbu... Substack: open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

love talking about poetry? IPN Poetry Salon is for you. Join us, @renardpress.com @goatstarbooks.bsky.social & @inkandescentuk.bsky.social @nathanevansarts.bsky.social aj akoto @ruthirwin.bsky.social & gabriel moreno reading poems keats house Sat21Mar 2pm. £6-10 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indie-pres...

And we’re off! Delighted to have a stand at the extraordinary London Book Fair this year thanks to @artscouncilengland.bsky.social & @inpressbooks.bsky.social - and sharing with some incredible other indie presses and friends from @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social 🙌

We’re utterly delighted to introduce the long-awaited new translation (by Diego Jourdan Pereira) of groundbreaking Uruguayan author Horacio Quiroga’s first short-story collection, Tales of Love, Madness and Death, first published in 1917. renardpress.com/books/tales-...

And look what Leicester Libraries have shared on Instagram. ☺️. Me as Dennis the Menace on #WorldBookDay supporting National Year of Reading. @renardpress.com @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social

Signed and ready to go! Lovely to see ‘Truth or Dare’ finding its way to more readers! @renardpress.com #shortstorywriter #shortstorycollection #writing #writingcommunity #awriterslife

We are delighted to be sharing the good, good news that we have joined the @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social; working with and showing solidarity to all the other wonderful indie publishers who are involved. Huge thanks to Will Dady @renardpress.com for facilitating this move. #Happydays

Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki More of my daily folk tale reading. Good to see that it’s not just European fairy tales that can have rambling and fragmented plots. Some gems though and great illustrations. This beautiful edition by my friends at @renardpress.com was a birthday present

Join us and other IPN publisers at @keatshouse1925.bsky.social Sat21Mar 2pm for IPN #Poetry Salon feat. #AJAkoto #GabrielMoreno #RuthIrwin @nathanevansarts.bsky.social @renardpress.com @goatstarbooks.bsky.social @inkandescentuk.bsky.social tix £6-10 QRcode in image booksales, poetry, chat.

Just completed 'All the Days I did not Live' by @bookwormvaught.bsky.social published by @renardpress.com An interesting and gently lyrical read. My review: bit.ly/4tQjrNT #Booksky 💙📚 #Books 📚 #Literaturesky

I have my subscription book from Renard Press! It’s a beautifully produced, gorgeous looking book and it’s signed. I look forward to reading it soon.

On the blog today, another #readindies review - this time, of a marvellous book exploring poetry and the writing life from @renardpress.com by #johngreening - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/i...

A blissful review from the ever wonderful @kaggsy59.bsky.social here 🙌

#ReadIndies #Booksky @renardpress.com Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf #ReadIndies lovebooksreadbooks.com/2026/02/13/k...

On my book’s forthcoming 1st birthday, @renardpress.com, on looking busy, on selling millions, on Love it or List it, on writing. A diary of sorts. Substack. Link below. open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

There are eight tickets left. I will be BLOODY DEVASTATED if you're not there. You KNOW you're my favourite person, yes? I'm going to talk about: John Donne Menopause Quickies Swindon Pears Clocks Paris Salisbury Cathedral Cakes Guilt Ambivalent motherhood Sex toys Eating in the car Hot academics