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Lurking Merkins - Volume Two of Under the Duvet of Darkness

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Boiledbeetle · 04/11/2023 08:00

"Under the Duvet of Darkness Volume Two Lurking Merkins" is now live on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMJZ43VZ

This a thread about a book about a thread about a book about a thread! (I think I’ve got the correct number of books and threads in there)

There are over 160 poems written by over 40 different Mumsnet usernames contained within its 208 pages.

There are also 12 Lurking Merkin poems lurking throughout the book!

It can take a few days for it to become fully searchable so the link below will take you straight to it:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMJZ43VZ

It's available worldwide so if anyone needs the link for a site other than the UK let me know and I can give you the link to the relevant Amazon site.

IMPORTANT BIT:

Whilst written entirely by Mumsnet users this book is not, I repeat NOT, published with Mumsnet’s express permission or co-operation.

It is published with the express permission and co-operation of the individual writers themselves.

Can anyone who tweets about it link directly to the book on Amazon or my Twitter profile:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMJZ43VZ
or
https://twitter.com/TheBoiledbeetle

rather than to this MN thread.

Thank you everyone who let me use their poems, without you there would be no book!

Boiledbeetle XX

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ArcaneWireless · 04/11/2023 18:37

Loop

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IcakethereforeIam · 04/11/2023 18:31

We're no.1!!!

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Boiledbeetle · 04/11/2023 18:23

Less blurry

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Boiledbeetle · 04/11/2023 18:20

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Boiledbeetle · 04/11/2023 18:19

Waitwhat23 · 04/11/2023 18:04

Ooh, look!

Fuck me!

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Waitwhat23 · 04/11/2023 18:04

Ooh, look!

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Calyx72 · 04/11/2023 18:02

And I have just bought a copy Grin

Calyx72 · 04/11/2023 18:00

Thank you @Boiledbeetle
Thanks to you, I am a published poet
That is fantastic SmileHalloween Smile

Every single poem is brilliant and I am happy to be part of this.

Power to the (GC) people WineHalloween Grin

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Boiledbeetle · 04/11/2023 16:46

So I've discovered what happens on the Amazon dashboard when you have two books

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CervixSampler · 04/11/2023 13:22

I had intended to wrap it and give it myself for Christmas or maybe hope GingerbreadCookieDough might wrap it for me but I want it NOW!!!! It's arriving Monday and I'm annoyed I can't read it today. The urge might have passed by Monday so I might give it to Dd and tell her to wrap it lovingly.

Swashbuckled · 04/11/2023 12:21

Excellent! @Boiledbeetle

Thank you so much for all you have been doing, and have done.

I feel proud of all of us too, and proud for my poem to sit alongside all our angry words.

I have ordered it 😊

ArcaneWireless · 04/11/2023 11:39

You look like a wee heilan coo @LurkingMerkin ☺️

LurkingMerkin · 04/11/2023 11:33

We did poems, and yet we don't even get a name check on the list of poem writers. It's bad enough we are forced to live in the toilets in Holyrood, but to miss us off the list... life is just sooo unfair! And the WiFi signal is crap in here! And you try writing poems with someone flushing the loo every 2 minutes! But we do do a good selfie! I think I look cute in this one!

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ArcaneWireless · 04/11/2023 11:20

By the power of MN!

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Boiledbeetle · 04/11/2023 11:17

ArcaneWireless · 04/11/2023 11:04

3-2-1 I’m back in the room! Thank you imani mnhq 😘

Just want to say thank you not only to the Beetle but also the fairy kindle mother 🌻 🌻

Yeah, you weren't really feeling yourself in your earlier post! That was quick for a Saturday! At least you don't have to spend the whole thread being a different name now!

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ArcaneWireless · 04/11/2023 11:06

CervixSampler · 04/11/2023 10:28

I love that the publication date was Halloween. What more could the terven wish for 🥰

I know 🤣

You must be so proud of your GCD too ☺️🥰

ArcaneWireless · 04/11/2023 11:04

3-2-1 I’m back in the room! Thank you imani mnhq 😘

Just want to say thank you not only to the Beetle but also the fairy kindle mother 🌻 🌻

CervixSampler · 04/11/2023 10:50

Oh my. That's amazing! So many poems! And my amazing GCD with her own chapter of awesomeness.

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Boiledbeetle · 04/11/2023 10:47

Really should have screenshot my doc rather than the Amazon site! Never mind

Who did which poem and an example of one of the chapter pages.

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Boiledbeetle · 04/11/2023 10:41

CervixSampler · 04/11/2023 10:23

I can't see any chapter names on the link. I was able to direct search for the book though😃

It's on the read sample on the main website I'm not sure if you can see it if you are on a mobile

Lurking Merkins - Volume Two of Under the Duvet of Darkness
Lurking Merkins - Volume Two of Under the Duvet of Darkness
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Lurking Merkins - Volume Two of Under the Duvet of Darkness
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howdoesatoastermaketoast · 04/11/2023 10:35

honoured to be a part of it

Well done everyone involved but special thanks to boiled beetle and fairy kindle mother.

Making a possibility into a reality is a genuine accomplishment

CervixSampler · 04/11/2023 10:28

I love that the publication date was Halloween. What more could the terven wish for 🥰

CervixSampler · 04/11/2023 10:23

I can't see any chapter names on the link. I was able to direct search for the book though😃

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Boiledbeetle · 04/11/2023 10:21

Motorina · 04/11/2023 10:14

Love love LOVE the chapter names!

But can people work out which ones are which from what they were whilst I was doing it?

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Motorina · 04/11/2023 10:14

Love love LOVE the chapter names!

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