Lurking Merkins - Volume Two of Under the Duvet of Darkness

[Boiledbeetle]

"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

Volume Two poem writers

@AmaryllisNightAndDay @AppleTreeOwner @ArcaneWireless
@beastlyslumber @Boiledbeetle @BonfireLady @Bowednotbroken
@BreadInCaptivity @Britinme @Brokendaughter @Calyx72 @CervixSampler @Croneofakind @CyclingSam @FairyKindleMother
@GingerbreadCookieDough @howdoesatoastermaketoast @IcakethereforeIam @LarkLane @Larpingasapoet @lechiffre55
@MissLucyEyelesbarrow @Motorina @MrInbetween @Piccalillipromises @PoembyChatGPT @PurpleBugz @Ramblingnamechanger @RealFeminist @Ritasueandbobtoo9
@SaleOfTwoTitties @Somanyquestionstoaskaboutthis @SpottyBumPony @Swashbuckled @TessoftheDurbeyfields
@TheBiologyStupid @TheYorkshireTwat @UrinaryLeash @Vebrithien
@Waitwhat23 @Whatthechicken @WinnieFosterFights

Yay!! Thank you Beetle!

Ordered!!

Well done Beetle! I have ordered.

Oh well done! You've worked so hard on this Beetle. Thanks so much me dearie!. Ordering a few now.

You are amazing Beetle - thank you for all your hard work!
I have ordered myself a copy and am planning on getting copies for my family for Christmas.

That's amazing! Best sellers list?

You rang?

Ooh! Alphabetical order and an actual order. Should arrive tomorrow. Thank you, fellow poets and, of course, @Boiledbeetle

Congratulations on publishing Volume 2 @Boiledbeetle !
That's my copy ordered.

Noo than @Boiledbeetle - can ah just say fit a guid quine/wumman/wimman/weeman ye are. 😆 (you’ll understand this!!)

Ordert a puckle 😍. Please God the goddess ah worship is ta’en wi’ this bookie tae. If thon wifie just lays een on ma wurds, then ah’ll be fair delichted.

You my friend? Ye are a force o’nature and I think you are ruddy marvellous. 🥰 😘. Thank you x (gettin’ a bit soppy an’ that!)

Yey! 👏👏👏

Thank you@Boiledbeetle and everyone who contributed.

I haven't read Volume One yet (still reading Glinner's autobiography) but it is now sitting on my bedside table after I went on a bit of a book ordering spree 😁

I shall now order Volume Two 👏👏

Yay! I've just ordered two copies and will order more nearer Christmas. Excellent work @Boiledbeetle!

(Nervously checks posts for poems... breathes a sigh of relief.)

I've just looked at the read sample thing on Amazon, it doesn't show any actual poems! Just me wittering on through the acknowledgments and introduction! 🙄but at least you do get to see what I named all the chapters and the poems and what number your poems are.

Thank you all for letting me use your poems.

If I've fucked anyones poem etc up I apologise in advance!

I think I've managed to spot all the mistakes and where autocorrect had inserted the wrong word etc.

I hope you like what I've done with it. (And if you don't... tough!)

Bb

Love love LOVE the chapter names!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 🌻 🌻

I know 🤣

You must be so proud of your GCD too ☺️🥰

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!