Hi Jamie,
Quick one for your June diary. Novelist Mo Fanning is appearing at the Queer the Shelves festival at Nottingham Central Library on Saturday 27 June, and is available for interview ahead of or during the event.
Mo’s new romcom Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine comes out on 18 June – a fake-fiancé premise in the vein of Mhairi McFarlane and Marian Keyes. He’s Midlands-based, has five novels including an Arts Council Book of the Year nominee, and has a piece running in The Bookseller’s LGBTQ+ June Edition.
Happy to talk about:
• Writing romcom as a gay man (with a great skincare regime) in his very early sixties
• Queer the Shelves (now in its fourth year) and Nottingham’s queer cultural scene
• The romance boom – the genre just hit a record £69m in the UK, and the British Book Awards added a Romantic Fiction category for the first time this year
Can arrange phone, Zoom or in-person. Let me know if useful.
Best,
Adrian Bedford
ABC Book Marketing
07881 925376