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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Aug 7

This year has been profoundly challenging on a personal level, but I am over the moon to have achieved a professional goal cherished since the age of 4. As of today, I’m a published novelist! 🥳📖💘 Strap In is available from all good booksellers: www.waterstones.com/book/strap-i...

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Apr 18

New literary pet peeve: when a book has a Scottish protagonist and the audiobook features an English voice actor who butchers Scottish dialect, and can’t do the accent to save their life. 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️ Gonnae just hire someone fae Scotland?

Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Jan 14

My Audible wrap up for 2024 is in, and they couldn’t have done a better job summarising my taste in books.

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Jan 6

This year I’m trying to cut back on book buying and focus on my unending TBR pile, but @jaeauthor.bsky.social’s Bachelorette Number Twelve is currently 99p in the UK Kindle store. A bargain too good to miss! 🏳️‍🌈📖

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Dec 30

So real. At times it feels like my characters are fiddling with each other while Rome burns, but 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Carrie Byrd @byrdwrites.bsky.social · Dec 30

me tap-tap-taping away on my laptop

The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · Oct 24

smut the pain away

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Dec 30

Just been through all the books I’ve read in 2024 to fill out two Sapphic Book Bingo cards, and — for the first time — a Hidden Gems card. 🥳📚 As always, thank you so much to @jaeauthor.bsky.social for her tireless work championing the sapphic books community. ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Dec 6

I heard that she was leaving too, but am not 100% sure it is true.

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Dec 5

With Schmitt and Yasuda leaving Grey’s Anatomy, Grey Sloan Memorial is perilously close to deyassification. I’m going to need Amelia Shepherd to get a girlfriend yesterday. And Millin. They could even date each other, in the problematic yet compelling style of early MerDer. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Dec 2

I bought a hoodie from menswear yesterday. It’s the thickest, fleeciest, most comfortable hoodie I have ever owned. Plus it doesn’t cling to my boobs AT ALL. And I get it now, why the straight girls are always stealing their man’s garments. Because I am never taking this off.

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Nov 29

Influencers are wild. There’s a whole subgenre of videos on lesbian TikTok where women post about either sneaking their straps past security or having an agent examine their toy bags. 😳 You couldn’t waterboard that information out of me, nevermind compel me to share the footage.

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Nov 29

Thank you! 🥰

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Nov 26

I DID IT! 🥳There were moments when I thought #NaNoWriMo would get the better of me this time round. My blood, sweat, and (copious) tears have gone into this manuscript. But I fucking did it. 50,000 words of passionate lesbian romance.

Seasonal Depression: 0, Gay Agenda: 1.

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Nov 21

Watching Season 8 of Game of Thrones right before NaNoWriMo turned out to be a brilliant decision, because no matter how many mistakes there are in this first draft — and believe me, I made plenty — there’s no earthly or cosmic way I can fuck up this story to the extent D&D did.

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Nov 4

Started watching Rivals on Disney Plus. And are the people who complain there’s too much explicit sex in modern romance novels aware that Jilly Cooper A) exists? B) has been publishing scorching hot spice for forty years?

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Nov 1

Once more we step into the breach. Good luck and godspeed to all my fellow drafters. 50,000 words, here I go!

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Sep 16

The way I know @ylva-publishing.bsky.social is for the AO3 girlies: they list book length by word count on their website. 😌

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Sep 13

I reviewed Loser of the Year, by @byrdwrites.bsky.social:

"Though she’s a debut novelist, I’ve never read an author who executes Slow Burn even half as well. Byrd's use of this trope is masterful, the build-up so good it aches."

#LousReview #BookReview #SapphicBooks #SapphFic

Lou’s Review: Loser of the Year, by Carrie Byrd

"Though she’s a debut novelist, I’ve never read an author who executes Slow Burn even half as well. Byrd's use of this trope is masterful, the build-up so good it aches."

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Sep 10

I reviewed The Oleander Sword, by @tashasuri.bsky.social:

"Priya and Malini are fierce with one another, holding nothing back. They’re capable of cruelty as well as tenderness. And only with Priya does Malini feel safe enough to trust completely."

#LousReview #BookReview #SapphicBooks #SapphFic

Lou’s Review: The Oleander Sword, by Tasha Suri

"Priya and Malini are fierce with one another, holding nothing back. They’re capable of cruelty as well as tenderness. And only with Priya does Malini feel safe enough to trust completely."

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Sep 5

I reviewed I Kissed Shara Wheeler, by Casey McQuiston:

"The beauty of #OwnVoices Sapphic Romance is that no female character is ever defined by male fantasy. Shara Wheeler is nobody’s romanticised Manic Pixie Dream Girl."

#BookReview #Sapphic #SapphicBooks #SapphFic

Lou’s Review: I Kissed Shara Wheeler, by Casey McQuiston

"The beauty of #OwnVoices Sapphic Romance is that no female character is ever defined by male fantasy. And this novel is one of a kind."

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Aug 23

I started Red, White & Royal Blue. And I get it. I completely and utterly get the hype. Also, Britain is never beating the beans on toast allegations. 🥲

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Jun 27

Meryl Streep’s daughter, Louisa Jacobson, came out publicly and posted a picture with her girlfriend. Which is lovely. But there is no way that a 33 y/o Millennial lesbian can be 100% unaware of the spicy Mirandy fanfics her mother inspired. Moment of silence for the good sis.

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Jun 16

Last night I dreamed that I was being Roman Roy’s Cyrano de Bergerac for Gerri Kellman. Absolutely gutted I woke up before finding out which one of us she was going to choose. 🥲

Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Jun 14

I reviewed The Deathless Girls, by @Kiran Millwood Hargrave:

"For all Dracula casts a long shadow, these women find light & meaning in each other. And that is the power of a retelling – giving voice, agency, and significance to female characters previously defined in relation to men."

#LousReview

Lou’s Review: The Deathless Girls, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

"For all Dracula casts a long shadow over the story, these women find light and meaning in each other. And that is the power of a retelling – giving voice, agency, and significance to female character...

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Lou Morgan 🏳️‍🌈📚 @loumorgan.bsky.social · Jun 12

Was trying to work out which squares The Love Factor, by @quinnivins.bsky.social, would hit for @jaeauthor.bsky.social’s Sapphic Book Bingo. And had the harrowing realisation that a novel set in 1997 counts as historical fiction (“takes place at least 25 years in the past”). I feel sick.

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