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be guid tae yer mammy
By Emma Grae
be guid tae yer mammy
By Emma Grae
Narrated by three generations of women – a darkly comic family drama set in modern-day Scotland.
A Scots family drama about three generations chasing dreams and happiness under a dysfunctional matriarch who isn’t who she appears to be. Least of all when an ageing film star makes an unexpected return…
Kate and her Granny Jean have nothing in common. Jean’s great claim to fame is raising her weans without two pennies to rub together, and Kate’s an aspiring scriptwriter whose anxiety and OCD have her stuck on bad thought after bad thought. But what Jean’s Glaswegian family don’t know is that the woman who likes nothing more than a guid natter dreamed of being a film star and came a hairsbreadth away from making it a reality.
Now in her nineties, Jean’s a force to be reckoned with and a bad mammy to youngest daughter Marie. But after a lifetime of agreeing to her petty whims, Marie takes a stand. As Jean faces her failings as a mammy head-on when the family falls apart, Kate must fight her demons when something scarier than her worst bad thought becomes a reality, or let go of her dream of the silver screen forever.
Emma Grae is a Scottish author and journalist from Glasgow.
She has been writing in Scots since she was a student at the University of Strathclyde, tipsily coauthoring poems with fellow writer Lorna Wallace before moving on to write fiction in the language.
She has published fiction and poetry in the UK and Ireland since 2014 in journals including The Honest Ulsterman, From Glasgow to Saturn and The Open Mouse.
As a journalist, she writes under her birth surname, Guinness, and has bylines in a number of publications including Cosmopolitan, the Huffington Post and the Metro.
Be guid tae yer mammy is her first novel.
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26th September 2022Happy Birthday 'Be guid tae yer Mammy' - Farewell Unbound and onto the next chapter!
Hello everyone!
I figured that today is as good a day as any to make my last forever grateful Unbound update. Be guid tae yer Mammy is a year old, and what a year it's been! Life imitated art for me, and I ended up working with old film reels for eight months before telling women's stories full-time as a journalist. Funny that?
Be guid tae yer Mammy was a sell-out thanks to everyone who believed…
26th September 2022Be guid tae yer Mammy is Scots Book of the Year 2022
Be guid tae yer Mammy won Scots Book of the Year 2022!!!
I can't believe it. I was literally speechless at the award ceremony because it was such a battle to get the book published. The fact that it's ended up an award-winner is more than I could have ever dreamed of. It all began here, so this is where I will end my thanks.
Thank you to John Mitchinson and everyone at Unbound for being so…
26th April 2022My Second Novel - Coming This October!
I’m delighted to announce that my second novel The Tongue She Speaks is being published by Luath Press this October!
A Scots coming-of-age novel about a dreamer, a poet and a punk band. The Glaswegian ‘Almost Famous’.
So I retract my previous statement about it coming out in 2023! As everyone here is more than aware, crowdfunding was an incredibly slow process, but I got a traditional publishing…
3rd February 2022The Dylan Thomas Prize, Mammy on TV, and European Supporters!
Hello everyone!
This will likely be my final Unbound update. If you're a European supporter, please confirm your address if you haven't done so already, or email suport@unbound.com to get your copy of Mammy after all of the Brexit-related delays, which I can't apologise enough for.
I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported the book. The first edition sold out everywhere…
3rd September 2021Mammy in the wild, European copies, and an exciting new Scots project launching tonight!
Hello, everyone!
It's been an absolutely incredible two weeks. I've been totally blown away by the support for Be Guid tae yer Mammy from all over the world, and it's been great to see it get off to a flying start after such a long journey.
There are still a few people who haven't confirmed their addresses who supported the original campaign. Please ensure that you've confirmed your address…
11th August 2021'Be guid tae yer Mammy' subscriber copies
Hello everyone!
You should have all received an email yesterday with a link to the eBook, and if you ordered a paperback copy, received an email to confirm your address.
It's been amazing to finally get this story into the world, and I hope you all enjoy it!
I'll be in touch shortly with launch details and more information about an exciting project with the Scots Language Centre!
…
6th July 2021'Be Guid tae Yer Mammy' is coming IMMINENTLY!
Hello, lovely pledgers!
I am over the moon to finally be writing this email. After a long Covid-related delay and another to perfect the Scots, Be Guid tae Yer Mammy will soon be with you.
The official publication date is August 19, but as early subscribers, you will receive your copies as soon as they are fresh off the printers!
I really hope that you enjoy the book and to whet your appetite…
15th April 2021Revised Publication Date
Hello, lovely pledgers!
I just wanted to drop a quick line to keep you all in the loop.
Be guid tae yer mammy in written in Scots, and last month, I made the difficult decision to pull it from the printer so that it could be proofread again to ensure that no inconsistencies slipped through into the published manuscript.
Scots is incredibly hard to proofread as there are no traditional spellcheckers…
31st March 2021A month to go!
Hello, everyone!
It's been a long time coming, but be guid tae yer mammy will finally be released next month (albeit not in the way I'd have planned thanks to Covid). I am super excited, but also quite nervous too!
There are lots of exciting things happening in the lead-up to the launch, which will be hosted over Zoom by the Scots Language Centre - so no matter where you are, you're more than…
25th February 2021'Be guid tae yer Mammy' on Goodreads and in the Bookseller!
Hello everyone!
I hope 2021 isn't treating you too badly so far, even though we're still a while away from normal life.
There are just 10 weeks to go until be guid tae yer mammy hits bookstores, and in the meantime, it's been making an appearance in a few new places!
Firstly, it was in the spring edition of the Bookseller, which was amazing to see, and it's now available to add to your …
14th January 2021Virtual Anthology Launch!
Hello, everyone!
I hope the *third* lockdown isn't being too hard on you and that you're tentatively hoping for some light at the end of this Covid tunnel.
If you're at a loose end in lockdown this Friday, the latest anthology to feature my writing, Sending Nudes, is having a free online launch and tickets are available here.
Or, if you'd simply like to buy the anthology, which is being…
24th December 2020Merry Christmas and here's to a (hopefully) better New Year
Hello, everyone,
I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and (hopefully) a better New Year. It's been a difficult year for just about everyone, but hopefully, better days are just around the corner.
If you're stuck for a festive pastime over the holidays, my latest Scots short story Lookin Up is featured on this podcast being performed by the wonderful…
2nd December 2020'Better Days'
I was recently asked by the amazing Scots Language Centre to write a poem for the festive period. So, without further ado, this is my fun look back at the shitshow that was 2020 in Scots!
https://www.scotslanguage.com/poetry/5766
Better Days
“It’s a war,” Mammy said.
Nae wan knows whit goes oan behind closed doors.
Stay at hame. Protect the NHS. Save lives.
We’ve fought oan aw fronts
And ah’m tired …
21st October 2020Fiction: 'Jimmy and his wee Darlin Alexa'
Jimmy and his wee Darlin Alexa
“Alexa, play ‘Ye Belong tae Me’ by Patsy Cline,” ah say.
“Playing ‘You Belong to Me’ by Patsy Cline.”
Ah’ve been oan ma tod noo fur six month—six o the loneliest months o ma life. Ma Bettie took a turn fur the worst back in March, and afore ah knew whit wis happenin, me and the family wur watchin hur gettin planted ower Zoom…
11th August 2020'BigThick and Sally's Gnashers' read by Lois Tucker
Hello, everyone!
Last night, the brilliant Lois Tucker brought my short story BigThick and Sally's Gnashers as part of Liars' League's online Women & Girls event.
You can listen to her rendition here, or if you're simply wanting to read the story, it's also been published on the Liars' League website.
Best wishes,
Emma
P.S. A little birdy at Unbound told me that be guid tae yer mammy…
28th July 2020Liars' League and a Glaswegian Dominatrix!
Hello everyone!
I'm chuffed to say that my Scots short story about an online dominatrix is being performed by an actor at Liars' League London's 'Women and Girls' event on August 11 at The Pheonix, Cavendish Square.
Tickets are £5 online or on the door, and I can guarantee a good laugh if you come along.
However, don't worry if you're not in the area, the actor's reading of my short story…
1st July 2020Fiction: 'Dancin wi the Rhona'
Dancin wi the Rhona
January 31, 2020
Two coronavirus cases confirmed in the UK
It wis ainlie a maitter o time. We aw saw it comin, ah hink, scrollin doon ma Twitter timeline, and ah’ve seen enough zombie pictures tae know ah’m no takin any chances. Ah’ll dae a Simon Peg. Ainlie insteid o the Winchester, ah’ll stay in ma gaff and wait fur aw this tae blow ower. Ah cannae take…
16th April 2020Coronavirus and the publishing industry
Hello, lovely people!
I hope that you're all safe and well during this extremely difficult time.
Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic is affecting every industry including publishing. This means that Unbound has made the difficult decision to push some of their titles out to give them the best possible chance in the marketplace.
Be guid tae yer mammy's publication date has now been rescheduled…
24th January 2020Burns Day and the Scots language
It's Burn's Day tomorrow, and I wanted to write a little update about the Scots language, and how the process of crowdfunding has helped me to embrace it for what it is - a language in its own right.
When I first started toying with Scots back in 2014, it came to me naturally, but at the time, I saw it as nothing more than a dialect. It was unfortunate because I wanted to be bilingual without realising…
© 2019 Elisabeth Graham
© 2019 Elisabeth Graham