Francis Bickmore

Publisher at Large 🅒🅐🅝🅞🅝🅖🅐🅣🅔 🅑🅞🅞🅚🅢 home of stay-up-all-night reading

[Francis Bickmore @Kinhead]

@AlanJParks @PolarVerlag Very cool. Giving me Dylan album sleeve vibes

[Francis Bickmore @Kinhead]

@JaneyGodley Janey, I love your work and your spirit. Sending love and happiness and joy as you make this courageous journey.

[Francis Bickmore @Kinhead]

@lemnsissay Sending courage and resolve. We lapse and we learn. Love.

[Francis Bickmore @Kinhead]

@DavidOlusoga Congrats, David. Looks stunning. Those ends….!

[The Portobello Bookshop @PortyBooks]

A huge thanks to @gavinfranc and @Kinhead for an all-encompassing conversation about The Bridge Between Worlds to celebrate its launch last night. Thanks also to everyone who joined us and snapped up a book or a cupcake (or both)! 🌉

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Lovely motor. Lovely hair. Lovely clothes. Doing very well for himself … as Musk knows, and as plenty of journos know, there is money to be made in stirring up hatred and telling people all their problems will be solved if we just other the others and see where it leads

[Francis Bickmore @Kinhead]

@DeanAtta @ProjectDavis @canongatebooks @annaframe @BradfordLitFest @PaulBurston @FiveLeavesBooks @amyacrepoet @junobookssheff @writtengallery @QueerLitUK @JackieKayPoet @gray318 Beautiful-i-fulllll

[Francis Bickmore @Kinhead]

@ScribePedersen @EdinCityofLit @LLCatEdinburgh @FaberBooks @LittleBrownUK @BirlinnBooks @CorsairBooks @scotlit @thebookseller @ByLeavesWeLive @PoetrySociety Wow. That’s awesome. Congrats on the new hat!

[Francis Bickmore @Kinhead]

@BenMyers1 @canongatebooks You’re awesome. I would love to see you and KB paired at an event. Let’s try and make that happen.

[Francis Bickmore @Kinhead]

@johnypitts Delighted to hear that, johny. And that it got your juices flowing. @WinterPapers

[Anna Frame @annaframe]

Always nice to stumble upon a Canongate review in my Saturday reading - but more so when it’s as dazzling a write up as this Kevin Barry review from @sannewman:

“I doubt that anyone will publish a novel this year that is at once so beautiful, so lovable and so much fun.”

[Francis Bickmore @Kinhead]

@AMcMillanPoet 👏 👏 👏

[Francis Bickmore @Kinhead]

@guyware @lokiscottishrap Kickstarter is certainly an idea. And people might chip in a little. A little easier when the target is £5000 than say £500,000.

[Francis Bickmore @Kinhead]

Wherever you stand on FFB and BG I would encourage you to read Anna’s thread. We have a problem to solve together cc @FerretScot

[Anna Frame @annaframe]

This is a really useful thread from Andrew, who’s been organising literary festivals in this country for longer than most - and, as former director of the much-missed @bristolideas - knows better than most the funding options available, and the pain of seeing a festival close.

[The Golden Sir @screaminbutcalm]

Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

[Francis Bickmore @Kinhead]

@LukeTurnerEsq Haha. ‘I could totally dance, I just don’t want to’

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

The Book Festival in Kyiv has started

[Francis Bickmore @Kinhead]

@Anthony1983 @fossilfreebooks Hmm

[Francis Bickmore @Kinhead]

@john_self @agent_luck @RavindraM @samjordison @AlexandraPring @ShehanKaru @DGALitAgents Great piece. Thanks for reminding us of the serendipity involved in established masterpieces.