Mich Kenney
@michkenneybooks.bsky.social
Barefoot dreamer. Also author YA BOOK OF FIRE trilogy @hqstories & THE FAIRFAX SISTERS SERIES out now @onemorechapterhc Rep’d @northbanktalent
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Mich Kenney
@michkenneybooks.bsky.social
· Jan 16
It’s paperback publication day for The Mismatch of the Season so to celebrate here’s a few of your gorgeous posts! 💫 HUGE thanks for the support, it really is SO appreciated!! 🥰 instagram.com/reel/DE4I6gwoU…
when you like old bookshops and overgrown paths and crumbling castles with forgotten libraries and secret doors you can vanish through
December 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
when you like old bookshops and overgrown paths and crumbling castles with forgotten libraries and secret doors you can vanish through
🤩 Feeling very lucky to have a book in #SpotifyWrapped this year! With HUGE thanks to everyone who listened/dowloaded/read any of the Fairfax Sister adventures this year - your support really does mean the world!✨
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December 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🤩 Feeling very lucky to have a book in #SpotifyWrapped this year! With HUGE thanks to everyone who listened/dowloaded/read any of the Fairfax Sister adventures this year - your support really does mean the world!✨
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Parents of young adult children or people who have jobs with gen z colleagues (or rare Actual Young Ppl On here): I want to interview someone who's done any kind of government employment scheme (whether apprenticeship or other) for a book (fiction). Would appreciate any tipoffs!
December 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Parents of young adult children or people who have jobs with gen z colleagues (or rare Actual Young Ppl On here): I want to interview someone who's done any kind of government employment scheme (whether apprenticeship or other) for a book (fiction). Would appreciate any tipoffs!
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If you're looking for Christmas presents for someone aged about 9 to about 14, my book is set in winter. It's snowing! Inside Stitchwort house we have log fires, cosy blankets, tea and hot buttered toast. There's also a mystery curse, a ghost or two, and a whole family with magical abilities 🕷️❄️🕸️❄️🕷️
November 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If you're looking for Christmas presents for someone aged about 9 to about 14, my book is set in winter. It's snowing! Inside Stitchwort house we have log fires, cosy blankets, tea and hot buttered toast. There's also a mystery curse, a ghost or two, and a whole family with magical abilities 🕷️❄️🕸️❄️🕷️
Scandal in fabulous festive company here! 🤩 How many have you read? And if you’re looking for a festive bargain, all the Fairfax heroines are in the @HarperCollinsUK #festive40 sale 🥳💫
December 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Scandal in fabulous festive company here! 🤩 How many have you read? And if you’re looking for a festive bargain, all the Fairfax heroines are in the @HarperCollinsUK #festive40 sale 🥳💫
when you just want to discover an old castle ruin covered in Ivy with a dusty library filled with endless shelves of forgotten fairytales
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
when you just want to discover an old castle ruin covered in Ivy with a dusty library filled with endless shelves of forgotten fairytales
you know you're a bookworm when you just want books for Christmas - and perhaps an elegant gothic mansion to put the books in
December 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
you know you're a bookworm when you just want books for Christmas - and perhaps an elegant gothic mansion to put the books in
What a chaotic but happy writing year?! Three books, three feisty heroines and a little news to come… I’ve loved writing all the madcap Fairfax adventures this year and can’t wait to share Jo's moorland chapter in Feb *26! 🪭✨
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
What a chaotic but happy writing year?! Three books, three feisty heroines and a little news to come… I’ve loved writing all the madcap Fairfax adventures this year and can’t wait to share Jo's moorland chapter in Feb *26! 🪭✨
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Fascinating interview if you're in the book world or even just like books. on bbc sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... One man who holds the fate of so many authors in his hands on both sides of the atlantic.
December 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Fascinating interview if you're in the book world or even just like books. on bbc sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... One man who holds the fate of so many authors in his hands on both sides of the atlantic.
Love this! What book should you read based on your top Spotify artist? 🤩💫
December 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Love this! What book should you read based on your top Spotify artist? 🤩💫
Wednesday research for a certain scene in Josephine’s story aka #ThePropositionoftheSeason coming February ‘26! How do you go about visualising characters in period settings?
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Wednesday research for a certain scene in Josephine’s story aka #ThePropositionoftheSeason coming February ‘26! How do you go about visualising characters in period settings?
you know you're a writer when your 'I'll read that soon' pile has morphed into an entire bookcase
December 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
you know you're a writer when your 'I'll read that soon' pile has morphed into an entire bookcase
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I still browse in bookshops but another mode of serendipity for me now comes from podcasts - I hear about books I would never have considered, and definitely never heard of. Eg listening to a history podcast I found out about a mid 20th century travelogue that I now have in my hot little hands
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I still browse in bookshops but another mode of serendipity for me now comes from podcasts - I hear about books I would never have considered, and definitely never heard of. Eg listening to a history podcast I found out about a mid 20th century travelogue that I now have in my hot little hands
permanently offended by how long it takes to write a book
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 AM
permanently offended by how long it takes to write a book
So brilliant to see the feral crew finding a new home in Ukraine 2026! Can’t wait to share cover art @fabula_vydavnytstvo! 🔥 #BookofFire #CityofDust #StormofAsh 🔥
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
So brilliant to see the feral crew finding a new home in Ukraine 2026! Can’t wait to share cover art @fabula_vydavnytstvo! 🔥 #BookofFire #CityofDust #StormofAsh 🔥
every time I say drafting is the most difficult part of writing, editing enters the room and laughs
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
every time I say drafting is the most difficult part of writing, editing enters the room and laughs
when you know there is actual magic in this world because you can open a book and find yourself somewhere else entirely
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
when you know there is actual magic in this world because you can open a book and find yourself somewhere else entirely
Monday research✨
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Monday research✨
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
when all you want is to inherit a large and mysterious fortune in order to buy all the books, but you get a monday instead
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM
when all you want is to inherit a large and mysterious fortune in order to buy all the books, but you get a monday instead
Friday research✨
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Friday research✨
November river✨
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
November river✨
when you like books wrapped in brown paper, the faint drum of November rain, deep pockets, quaint bookshops and the soft crunch of leaves underfoot
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
when you like books wrapped in brown paper, the faint drum of November rain, deep pockets, quaint bookshops and the soft crunch of leaves underfoot
Thursday research✨
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Thursday research✨
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 555:
Don't use descriptions of weather as backdrop or set dressing. Write how it affects the way your characters interact with their world: how it changes their clothes, their behaviour, their mood, their perception of sounds, colours, light. Make it count.
Don't use descriptions of weather as backdrop or set dressing. Write how it affects the way your characters interact with their world: how it changes their clothes, their behaviour, their mood, their perception of sounds, colours, light. Make it count.
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 555:
Don't use descriptions of weather as backdrop or set dressing. Write how it affects the way your characters interact with their world: how it changes their clothes, their behaviour, their mood, their perception of sounds, colours, light. Make it count.
Don't use descriptions of weather as backdrop or set dressing. Write how it affects the way your characters interact with their world: how it changes their clothes, their behaviour, their mood, their perception of sounds, colours, light. Make it count.