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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

He and I were married for nine years, but let's go with no, LinkedIn.

LinkedIn email: Do you know Bob? With round photo of a white 50-something man in glasses.

Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You could always attend a women's college and find yourself at age 50 talking to fellow alums online about discontinued china patterns, as I just did. But you don't want that. Okay.

"People say college is what you make it," one student told Angelina. "But college is what people see when they look at you." (highlighted in yellow)

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I assume that, post-Yesteryear, we’ll be seeing a bunch of on-the-nose novels about wealthy women and their relation to patriarchy.

Cover for the forthcoming novel TECH WIVES by Kirsten Chen

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I have not seen this before! It was indeed a prank call. And not a very good one!

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Peninsula Park rose garden watch: SPLENDOR!

Pink roses in a public rose garden with blue sky and pergola in the background

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Peninsula Park Rose Garden Watch: sparse but hopeful!

Blue sky, green trees, budding roses in a public garden in Portland, Oregon

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Independent Bookstore Day is coming!

Chalkboard sign: Save space in your calendar for Independent Bookstore Day it’ll br out of thus world! Saturday April 25

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My fellow September 2025 IndieNext titles are going back. Which means that Epic and Lovely is being returned by all the stores except this one. 🫤

Hothouse Bloom by Austyn Wohlera in a banker’s box 📦

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

A customer gushed about this one and though I rarely pick up a thriller, this one is pretty good.

The cover of Murder Your Darlings by Jenna Blum

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Happy 10th anniversary to my debut, Every Anxious Wave.

Copy of Every Anxious Wave along with a slice of cake with a 10 number candle

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains. (After Aeroplane, of course)

Cover of the 1998 album Terrible Things Happen by The Aislers Set--a misshapen roller coaster against a red background

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I was really happy to see the C12 at work today and was such a dork my coworker took a photo and put it on IG.

Mo wearing glasses and a shirt with poppies on it holding the new Merriam Webster Collegiate, which is a big red book.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I’m still mad about that Book Gossip newsletter from yesterday. That Big 5 editors don’t want small press books to be award nominees…wow.

“Read North Sun by Ethan Rutherford. I wouldn’t have discovered this wonderful book without the National Book Awards!” From NYT comments

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

When I get depressed, I make tortillas. Hard not to be depressed with all this shit.

2 cups of masa for 10 corn tortillas in Zohran font

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Elliott Bay Books has 17 now-signed copies of Epic and Lovely for Seattle’s seasonal shopping needs!

Stack of 17 copies of Epic and Lovely, spine out, at Elliott Bay Books

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Children’s literature is flooded by incidents of cute animals eating their peers. When will it stop?

Cover of Dont Eat Eustace by Lian Cho. Eustace is a fish.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Was talking about Six Feet Under and remembered Ruth dies this year.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I'll be in NYC next week for the first time in a while! Doing an event with the lovely and talented Roohi Choudhry at Lofty Pigeon in Kensington, Brooklyn. 6:30.

Mo Daviau reading with Roohi Choudhry at Lofty Pigeon Books, 743 Church Ave, Brooklyn, NY, Thursday October 9 at 6:30pm.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Spokane. It feels like a place you can afford to make art, like Austin 30 years ago. I like this building.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I guess AI is good for padding one's CV. This was on Reddit. I don't remember writing or publishing a book called COWBOY ADVICE, but what is truth anymore?

NOTABLE WORKS: "Cowboy Advice: A collection of essays offering humorous and thoughtful advice on life's challenges. Daviau's writing is funny, insightful, and deeply human." (From Reddit's AI)

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

When I was younger, I’d stand in front of this shelf in the fiction section at BookPeople and think, someday, my novel will be here. It’s at the front of the store for the event tonight but still!

Empty space on wooden bookshelf with a shelf talker with my photo on it describing Epic and Lovely.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

TOMORROW IN AUSTIN! BookPeople, 7pm, with AMY GENTRY!!!!

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Well, Ingram/Chicago have squandered my IndieNext month. So many stores don’t have it yet and won’t until October. I want to cry.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I’m happy to be neighbors with Porochista, too.

Bookshelf featuring Indienext titles for September, including Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Here’s my book, warmly ensconced on the IndieNext shelf, with a staff rec from Daniel!

Two copies of Epic and Lovely side by side, with gray staff recommendation card that says EPIC AND LOVELY A beating heart of a novel that will have you pondering your legacies and what you have inherited —Daniel

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

It was wonderful to see @charliejane.bsky.social at Powell’s last night! I am joyfully promoting her book here at Annie’s. We’re down to one copy!

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Reading this at work. Everyone is nice. Friendship with pigeon, like Bert. If you want to read about happy, pleasant things, here it is.

Cover of We Should All Be Birds by Brian Buckbee. Beige cover with image of pigeon facing right.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Epic and Lovely is on the September '25 IndieNext list. Thank you to the friends and colleagues who nominated me!

Six IndieNext entries with the one for Epic and Lovely circled in red. For E&L: "Recommended by Gigi Little, Powell's Books, Portland, OR"

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Book tour! Come see me and some sassy fellow writers talk about the epic and the lovely.

Mo's book tour schedule on blue background with palm trees.
Sept 4-Portland, Annie Bloom's Books 7pm
Sept 16-Austin, BookPeople, 7pm
Oct 9-Brooklyn, Lofty Pigeon Books, 6:30pm
Oct 11--Washington DC, Politics & Prose Conn Ave, 5pm
Oct 13-Morgantown, WV, WVU Campus (tba)
Oct 15-Columbus, OH, Two Dollar Radio HQ
Oct 28-Portland, OR, Broadway Books 7pm

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Looks like someone read Tehrangeles.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

If you want a cool sticker designed by @dynamoe.bsky.social, preorder your copy of Epic and Lovely from Annie Bloom’s! Free with order! annieblooms.com/book/9781959...

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Honk if this means anything to you!

Blue bumper sticker that reads: Honk if you want! I'm enjoying the shimmering indie pop perfection of Unrest's 1992 album Imperial f.f.r.r.!

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Here's the epigraph for my new novel.

"From a spiritual/attachment perspective,
if you continue to believe, do, or engage with people
who have hurt you, either consciously or subconsciously,
you've made an agreement. You've said yes."
--Chrissy Tolley

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Sooz would want me to decolonize funeral wear.

Torso of author wearing a colorful checked linen dress. With a seatbelt.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I can't stop thinking about this weird scene in Columbo in which Boss Hogg stands next to Johnny Cash and doesn't say anything and only makes weird faces while wearing those glasses.

Johnny Cash and Sorrell Booke in red sunglasses standing next to each other in an episode of Columbo from 1974.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Today is the day, by Portland custom, that I receive 12 free Pip’s donuts.

Twelve cinnamon sugar mini-donuts in a white paper box.
From Pip’s in Portland.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This title is me, as I don’t share a century with my dad.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Paradise Pond, Smith College

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I bought one of Dyna’s anti-AI shirts. Get yours: teepublic.com/user/nobodys...

Brown haired woman in glasses wearing red tshirt that says STOP FORCING AI INTO F***ING EVERYTHING.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The energy I'm bringing to 2025.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

On my way to work retail during the holidays but okay, if you say so, Google.

Screenshot of Google panel reading Mo Daviau: Public figure.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Shouts to Keia & Martyn’s Coffee, local roasters who stamp their adorable faces on the bag. If you’re in Portland, check them out! Their shop is in the Lloyd Center above the ice rink.

Brown paper bag with a stamp depicting a middle-aged Black woman and white man holding a coffee cup.

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Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

My friend praised me and I liked the praise very much.

"I couldn't not share this hilarity from my friend Mo Daviau. Her posts are like having the world's funniest and most rude therapist come to your house for a session. "

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