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

By the power of MN!

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!

You look like a wee heilan coo @LurkingMerkin ☺️

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 😊

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.

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

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

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

Power to the (GC) people

And I have just bought a copy

Ooh, look!

Fuck me!

Less blurry

We're no.1!!!

Loop

I read the sample. I loved it so much that I nearly ordered the book.

I've already ordered the book! 😀

And so it came to pass!

Which honestly shows how ridiculous the best sellers lists are on Amazon!

Well I never! We are awesome!

So, we are not only published poets, but published poets who hit the number 1 spot in the first 24 hours of the book being available for sale!

Such fun!

woohoo

political and protest poetry is like the coolest genre name ever

This is all very exciting! I feel all overwhelmed and something I don't have words for.

Amazon have just notified me that my copies have been dispatched!

Sorry for the multiple posts but I'm just so excited and proud of Dd!

I'm slightly worried about inducing ear splitting levels of screaming all over the place but it appears to be 97 in Poetry, Drama and Criticism and 21 in Poetry.

And two more are on their way to people!

I'm not ignoring you all honest my brain is just completely frazzled, it's been a stressful couple of weeks getting this bloody book done!

I'm all on edge, as i had to make changes to the proof, even though I was anal levels of careful with the changes I keep having nightmares about the pages all screwing up or something! (They haven't I checked the file they produce before you press the publish button, but still I feel sick!).

I just want you all to have your copies now so you can see what I've done with your poems!

Remember those really late poems that some of you wrote...

might as well screenshot them for posterity!

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