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Mo Fanning
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Novelist. Editor. Chronicler of emotional chaos.
Author of LISA DOYLE IS ABSOLUTELY FINE
A British romcom with bite, out now

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Mo Fanning @mofanning.co.uk · Jun 22
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
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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.
September 9, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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Bag of wet concrete in one corner, leftover builder's chip wrappers in the other?
How to make your house smell new
September 9, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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When people ask why the general mood is so low in the UK, why not take a look at our press who love cheery tales like this
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
All the ways Putin could attack UK with devastating consequences
As Europe directly calls Russia out over an attempted drone attack on a German airport, defence expert Francis Tusa explains how a Russian hybrid warfare campaign could easily cause widespread disrupt...
www.independent.co.uk
September 6, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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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'.
September 2, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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This headline alone sums up the insanity we're allowing

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Experts Warn Sen McConnell 'May Be Dead' or Incapacitated After Staff Stop Giving Public Updates on His Condition
Mitch McConnell's extended absence from public view has led to speculation about his health, despite confirmation from his office that he is recovering at home after a fall and mild pneumonia.
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August 31, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.
August 31, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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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?
August 31, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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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
August 30, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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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.
August 27, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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So it smells of nothing then? Assume it's expensive?
Ad for aftershave with caption: smells like cold air on clean skin
August 18, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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There it is.
August 12, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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This is my longest standing 'hot take'. Kids need to learn to be bored.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/k...
Why I’m making sure my kids are bored this summer holiday
The school break can be a challenge, with new research showing kids would rather stare at a screen than get creative when looking for fun. But we shouldn’t be trying to fix boredom, says mum of two Ch...
www.independent.co.uk
August 11, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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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
August 10, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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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
August 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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This is why we don't deserve nice things - and why there simply has to be an asteroid heading our way any minute.
cjzero.bsky.social CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · Aug 6
the ketchup slices have hit socials with a vengeance www.instagram.com/reel/DW8biBS...
August 7, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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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
August 7, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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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.

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Yellow background with sticker 99p this week only. 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
August 3, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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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
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August 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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My Blackbird Static chums are back with four new songs of summer...

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Pull me back by Blackbird Static on Spotify
July 30, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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"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
July 23, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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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
July 23, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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It's here if you feel like a read to distract from all this hot weather

thebooklist.co/books/lisa-d...
Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine
Warm, funny and relatable, Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine is a sharply observed romantic comedy about pressure, pretence and what happens if the act slips.
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June 23, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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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?
July 15, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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It's a lovely sunny day People everywhere are getting new moles to worry over
July 14, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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Lisa Doyle is absolutely fine.

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#Romance #RomanceBooks #RomanceReads #BookBoyfriend
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July 9, 2026 at 12:26 PM