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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Queer authors: has your income dropped this year? Books vanished from search? Account throttled with no explanation? Everyone has an anecdote. Let's get a number. Five-minute anonymous survey. Results go to journalists for Banned Books Week. dub.sh/QTSSurvey

Purple graphic from Queer the Shelves. Magenta headline: "Queer authors: how's 2026 really going?" Below: "Anonymous 5-minute survey. Results go to the press for Banned Books Week." A shelf of books with one missing. Link: dub.sh/QTSSurvey

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 23/09/2026

This is just too much pressure for me. I'm going to end up with six bottles of vodka and 300 toilet rolls on 23 December, aren't I?

Ocado kicking off Christmas with an email heralding 'THE OFFICIAL START OF CHRISTMAS' with delivery slots opening tomorrow

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 23/09/2026

I've spent years typing "gay novel funny nobody dies" into search bars. Queer the Shelves Infinite is a reading app where every book is queer, so the search bar can stop guessing. Kickstarter opens Tuesday 29 Sept. www.kickstarter.com/projects/qts...

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Coming soon: Queer the Shelves

The LGBTQ+ subscription reading app we need, the one we’ve all been dreaming about, is finally coming. Be part of the revolution.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Bag of wet concrete in one corner, leftover builder's chip wrappers in the other?

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 02/09/2026

In UK politics, a 62-year-old former commodities trader who joined the Conservative Party in 1978 considers himself a 'new kid on the block'.

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 31/08/2026

My 7 stages of novel writing: 5K: I have an idea 15K: The idea has legs 30K: Not the legs I thought, but still... 50K: Many darlings to kill, maybe kill it all and be done 75K: Surely to God, it should be done soon 90K: I can edit it down later 100K: What in all holy fuck was I thinking?

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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

IT WAS NEVER THE IMMGRANTS IN SMALL BOATS The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is It will never reach you

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 27/08/2026

Brilliant #writing tip from Libby Page over at The Novelry. When #editing, ask yourself: What is this scene doing that no other scene in the story is doing? Helps kill darlings.

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 18/08/2026

So it smells of nothing then? Assume it's expensive?

Ad for aftershave with caption: smells like cold air on clean skin

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 10/08/2026

Just had an email. From Fredrik Backman. "As an author myself, I have genuine respect for the challenge of balancing comedy, suspense, romance, and character development without allowing one element to overwhelm the others." He's not wrong. He's also not Fredrik Backman. #AuthorScam #Publishing

Dear Mo,

I recently spent time with Husbands: Love and Lies in La-La Land, and I wanted to reach out because I enjoyed the way you take what initially sounds like an absurdly bad decision and allow it to develop into something much more complicated.

Kyle MacDonald waking up to discover that he has drunkenly married a Hollywood director is an immediately engaging premise, but what interested me more was what happens after that discovery. His decision to travel to Los Angeles turns a personal mistake into an encounter with a world where ambition, celebrity, relationships, and deception don't always operate by the rules he is used to.

I particularly appreciated Kyle's tendency to believe the best in people. That quality makes him sympathetic, but it also creates a vulnerability because the reader can see how easily trust can become a liability when the people around him aren't necessarily telling him the whole truth.

The Hollywood setting also gives the story an interesting contrast. There is the surface glamour of Los Angeles and the promise of opportunity, but beneath it is a darker environment where appearances can conceal very different realities. That tension works well alongside the humor and romantic elements.

As an author myself, I have genuine respect for the challenge of balancing comedy, suspense, romance, and character development without allowing one element to overwhelm the others. I'm reaching out simply to commend the work you've put into the book, not to pitch anything. I would also be delighted to leave an honest review and share my genuine thoughts about it.

I'd love to ask: when you first came up with Kyle's drunken marriage, did you already know how far that single decision would take him, or did the Hollywood adventure and its complications develop as you wrote?

Warm regards
Fredrik Backman

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 07/08/2026

Last chance: 99p until midnight. Lisa invented a fiancé to prove she was absolutely fine. Unfortunately, she gave him the same name as her very married boss. A sharp British romcom about friendship, pressure and pretending everything’s fine. www.amazon.co.uk/Lisa-Doyle-A... #RomCom #BookSky

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 07/08/2026

This is why we don't deserve nice things - and why there simply has to be an asteroid heading our way any minute.

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 07/08/2026

Ask me whose husband referred to his collection of cables and wires as 'neurotic and shameful'. Then ask me whose husband is eating his words now he can recharge his strimmer.

A collection of cables and wires - lots of them

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 03/08/2026

Everyone else seems settled. Lisa Doyle is 32 and absolutely fine. Fine enough to invent a fiancé, hire an actor to play him and continue lying until a wedding threatens to expose everything. 99p this week ONLY. books2read.com/absolutely

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Lisa Doyle is 32 and absolutely fine. Everyone else seems settled. Please ignore the wine, the lie and the imaginary fiancé.

A warm, funny British romantic comedy

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 01/08/2026

She invented a fiancé. Then gave him her married boss’s name. At that point, honesty would have been sensible. Lisa Doyle chooses prosthetics, an actor flatmate and a fake wedding instead. Lisa Doyle Is Absolutely Fine is 99p this week. books2read.com/absolutely #RomCom #BookSky

Lisa Doyle quote and 99p flag to buy Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine in ebook this week for 99p/c

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 30/07/2026

My Blackbird Static chums are back with four new songs of summer... open.spotify.com/album/4qGQkp...

Pull me back by Blackbird Static on Spotify

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 23/07/2026

"I prefer talking to an AI chatbot about a problem with my gas bill or supply" is a sentence uttered by precisely no fucker ever.

Headline: ‘Customers prefer AI chatbots,’ says British Gas owner as 1,300 call centre jobs axed

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 23/07/2026

Today’s writing: 43 minutes identifying one tree on one street in Kings Heath. It appears for half a sentence, near where police pin up a Missing Person poster. Nobody notices when details are right. Someone always notices when they’re wrong. #AmWriting #HumanWritten

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Debra Derr @nyghtbyrd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Truly awful that this loathsome individual was re elected to the presidency as a felon, and is now an adjudicated rapist who has finally paid his court ordered penalty for defaming the woman he raped. How much lower can we fall?

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 14/07/2026

It's a lovely sunny day People everywhere are getting new moles to worry over

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 09/07/2026

🔥 SALE! "Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine" is £4.99 for a limited time. Lisa Doyle is absolutely ﬁne. Grab your copy: books2read.com/absolutely #Romance #RomanceBooks #RomanceReads #BookBoyfriend

Yellow blob on blue background with the book title: 'Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine' by Mo Fanning. A bee flies from the blob and a woman in sweat pants sits cross-legged exuding calm in front of the blob

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Happy Flying Ant Day 2026

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The orange felon blames mail-in voting, immigrants and felons for destroying America, yet he marries immigrants, he votes by mail and he’s a convicted felon. Funny how that bullshit hypocrisy works.

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 04/07/2026

Staying in a schmanzy hotel, and I’m just going to say it. I don’t hold with the whole bathtub in the bedroom thing

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 01/07/2026

New on Substack: The book launch hangover. Three weeks after publication, the adrenaline has gone and the wall has arrived. A piece about indie author burnout, ignored pitches, tiny wins, good people, and knowing when to stop. open.substack.com/pub/mofannin...

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The book launch hangover

Three weeks on - I've hit a wall

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 01/07/2026

Interesting to watch - because cancer never does truly leave you - even six years on, I still know it was there. Even if it's gone for now, it was there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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Lauren Laverne: 'Cancer never leaves you'

Lauren Laverne talks about going through cancer treatment and the effect it’s had on their lives.

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 29/06/2026

Every author has been told to “build a platform”. In BookBrunch today - why the phrase has become lazy publishing shorthand, and what authors need instead: clearer reader routes, better promises, and less panic. www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar... #BookMarketing #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors

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Free Article

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 27/06/2026

Mid-eyebrow zit popped up overnight. About to moderate a panel at a sold-out lit festival . Temptation to pick, pop and turn into a weeping sore is huge. Luckily, slap saving the day. Tell me I look literary... please

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 26/06/2026

It's that 'day before a literary festival' thing again. The one where all I want to do is vomit and lock myself in the bathroom until it's all over. Onwards.

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 24/06/2026

Another gorgeous review for Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine, this time from Bekky Clarke. A one-sitting summer read is exactly the sort of thing Lisa would pretend not to care about, while absolutely caring. books2read.com/absolutely #RomCom #UKFiction #BookReview

Review graphic on a yellow background. Large dark text at the top reads “reviews are in”. Beneath it is a quote: “This was super fun. But also super emotional and written wonderfully. It was a one sitting read and I would say a perfect read for summer.” The quote is credited to Bekky Clarke. Below the quote is a 3D image of the paperback cover for Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine by Mo Fanning, standing on colourful confetti.

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 23/06/2026

I listed my book on thebooklist.co, a community-owned platform built for indie authors. You list any book with a cover, description, and direct purchase links. No fees, no commissions, just a great way to get your book in front of readers. thebooklist.co/s/KOCY9E1782...

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 22/06/2026

Much as I hate the idea of giving Bezos book money, it's a fact of life for any author that a huge chunk of change comes our way from Amazon. Plus having a decent number of reviews on his bookshop blasting site kicks algorithms in and gets other sites and stockists paying attention. So....

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 22/06/2026

Another gorgeous review for Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine. “A five-star read for me and a new favourite author discovered.” I’ll be floating around on this one for the rest of the day, frankly. BUY: books2read.com/absolutely #RomCom #UKFiction #BookReview

Review graphic on a pink background. Large dark text at the top reads “reviews are in”. Beneath it is a quote: “A five-star read for me and a new favourite author discovered”, credited to Livvy Helen. Below the quote is a 3D image of the paperback cover for Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine by Mo Fanning.

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bigbaddaddy.bsky.social @bigbaddaddy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The public was warned. Several of his business ventures went bankrupt. He inherited his initial wealth. He is facing over 300 lawsuits. The east wing was supposed to be paid for by donors. Talk about a scam artist.

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 20/06/2026

Another lovely review for Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine, this time from Dani Hennessy. That’s Lisa in one line, really: chaos first, feelings later, and a fake engagement doing far more damage than anyone budgeted for. shop.mofanning.co.uk #RomCom #UKFiction #BookReview

Review graphic on a yellow background. Large dark text at the top reads “reviews are in”. Beneath it is a quote: “Witty, ridiculous, heartwarming and had such a beautiful message at its core!”, credited to Dani Hennessy. Below the quote is a 3D image of the paperback cover for Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine by Mo Fanning.

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 19/06/2026

I’ve written for PinkNews about gay best friends in romcoms, and why I’m tired of seeing us used as emotional support furniture. Let us want things. Get things wrong. Push the plot. Read it here: www.thepinknews.com/2026/06/18/o... #RomCom #LGBTQBooks #UKFiction

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · 19/06/2026

Another lovely review, this time from Reading with Dee. “The writing style was right up my street, witty, engaging and funny.” That’s exactly what I hoped Lisa would be: funny, messy, human, and increasingly unable to pretend she has any of this under control. #RomCom #UKFiction #BookReview

Review graphic on a pink background. Large dark text at the top reads “reviews are in”. Beneath it is a quote: “The writing style was right up my street, witty, engaging and funny”, credited to Reading with Dee. Below the quote is a 3D image of the paperback cover for Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine by Mo Fanning.

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