Moniza Hossain
@moniza_hossain
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Writer: RITU IN THE SUN (Random House, 2026), STREET PUPPY MASJID CAT (Little Bee Books, 2025), THE FEAR FACTORY (Holiday House, 2026), Rep’d by @triadaUs
Joined June 2016
I have been waiting for this moment for SO LONG. Friends, are you ready for my first ever cover reveal 😭😭🥰❤️??Working on this book with Haikal has been such a dream come true. I cannot wait for all of you to read it! Pre-order link in bio!
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I think there’s too much focus on “increasing the birth rate” and not enough on deterring unfit parents.
Watching the way my 8 yr old daughter tortures my toddler son (hovering, pestering, ‘trying to help’ him) all while he shouts for her to leave him alone makes me realize women have a deeply engrained need to drive men completely insane and it starts from birth.
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I’m convinced it’s because most of the calls they get are scam bots, so they wait to hear if it’s a person before speaking.
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Hate this for all of us.
I occasionally catch myself using em dashes and delete them so people don’t think I’m a bot. 😞.
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Also, they don’t care about the writers, who’ll be the ones getting sued.
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They don’t care about making legal problems for fanfics. Companies just want to plunder fan-spaces in a purely extractive, profit-making way. They don’t care about fandom, art, or ethics.
I really don't care if fanfic is redone so it can be trad published. But the publishers themselves are screwing up big time making the source materials such a big part of marketing now--it's likely gonna cause legal problems for fanfic in general and I'm shocked they don't see it.
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If you pre-order the book, do send me the receipt via email so I can ship you the lovely pre-order goodies
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So many things about this bug me. Romantasy is a heteronormative genre. You do not need to be drawing on fanfics for books. The publishing industry already prioritises these stories. Also, the fact that these books are being promoted as Harry Potter fanfics is so morally dubious.
What is it with this random influx of dr*mione fics being published as books?? Like what is the cause of this.
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It’s not really necessary for writers to world-build beyond the requirements of plot. Like for example, we don’t know what the world outside Panem looks like in the Hunger Games. But Rowling’s hubris is such that she voluntarily shared her ludicrous world-building with the world.
Remember when jk Rowling made a “wizarding school” map, and it showed how narrow her worldview is
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If you like picture books about spoiled little animal babies, my book Street Puppy Masjid Cat about the unlikely friendship between a pampered cat and a lonely stray dog is currently 25 percent off!.
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You can see this happening with rescued dogs too. You can rescue a dog from absolutely unimaginable conditions but after you’ve loved them for a while they get used to the good life and become spoiled little babies in the best possible way.
Funny thing about neuroplasticity is that yeah, trauma changes your physical brain, but so does being loved and living well.
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Save me from the Victorian penny hang by buying my book! It’s currently 25 percent off at Barnes and Noble. Use pre-order code PREORDER25.
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The uk is so beautiful! I came back from Italy and took my parents to a random park in Manchester and they found it just as lovely. We say white-tailed bunny rabbits gambolling in the fields
i rlly don’t get it when people from the UK are like omggg i need a holiday it’s so miserable in england and then this is what england looks like huh???.
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Even better, let’s bring back the Victorian penny hang, where shift workers paid a penny to sleep leaning upright on ropes at lodging houses.
Cities should be allowed to build housing for adults like this. We do it for hostels, and it can serve as "housing of last resort." Very cheap rent, by the bed. There'd have to be strictly enforced rules if paired with strangers, but it's not impossible.
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Great. With so much of the publishing industry already relying on TikTok for marketing, this is going to make it even harder for writers based outside the US to promote their books.
TikTok will launch a new app specifically for U.S. users called ‘M2’ on September 5th ahead of a potential sale. The current version will shut down by March 2026 & users will need to download the new version to keep accessing TikTok.
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(Btw I have a book about this very topic. It’s called Ritu in the Sun, and we’ll be doing the cover reveal very soon 👀☀️).
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Disappointing from the bookseller. There’s no ethical way to use tech that’s founded on stolen work.
We need to stop treating AI as good or bad and start asking better questions. Who benefits? Who is excluded? What does ethical use look like in practice, not just in theory, asks @_Siobhan_Cole in our recent Comment piece 👇.
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What must it be like to live life without knowing the joy of losing yourself in a book? The beauty of a well-turned sentence, the wonder of the human imagination, the sheer delight of words well-chosen. I’d rather read one book properly than “read” like this.
pro tip: you can basically read >100 books per day by asking chatgpt to summarize them for you.
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I went on holiday and got a tan, and my mom is so stressed about it. Meanwhile my sun-bronzed skin has turned a rich, vibrant shade that is by all objective standards a beautiful way to look. I’ve brought the sun back with me to England. My holiday is inscribed on my skin.
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