Villainous Vampire is Read Now on Netgalley! Two days left, snag it while you can. This one has a feisty curvy witch who’s been hunted across time by a snarky Viking vampire. He gets amnesia. Things get sticky. And steamy. And slipp—well, you know the rest. Link: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Guilty dogs in this week's newsletter! Plus: my mood board for the secret project I finally got to announce, have a Hexy Beast Goodreads giveaway & am reading The Perfect Crimes Of Marian Hayes for the Friends To Lovers RomCom book club & an early copy of To Catch A Sinner! buff.ly/EWhSAW1..

this is also a crisis in publishing as the midlist collapses and publishers chase fanfic or tiktok breakouts and then throw them to the wolves with little support. no one has the time or budget to grow authors while they learn their craft and become better writers, and that was BEFORE AI bullshit.

HEY AUTHOR FRIENDS!!! Have you got a bunch of author copies sitting around? Would you like to get them OUT OF YOUR HOUSE? We are looking for authors with 5 - 10 copies of a book they'd like to sign and send to some lucky winner, and help raise money for voting rights!

Does the name Victor mean something to you? Are you the bold AND the beautiful? Are you ready for some funeral fist fights, kidnappings, amnesia and more? Y'all I am SOOOOO excited to bring you The Charming And The Chiseled coming in July 2027 from Sourcebooks!!!!

Respect For Friend Drops After Reading Book They Recommended

our human rights should not change based on which state we're standing in, or this is not a country. we have never truly gotten there but we were getting close, and now we're backsliding so fast. authoritarian enclaves can't exist at the state levels that threaten democracy locally, either!

BREAKING: The 11th Circuit US Court of Appeals approves Alabama's 2021 legislative map that was previously blocked for violating the Voting Rights Act and for intentional discrimination. The ruling will impact voting opportunities for Black voters in Montgomery in this year's state senate race.

“.. four months after its establishment, the board’s financial fund set up by the World Bank has received no money from donors, according to four people familiar with the matter. ‘Zero dollars have been deposited,’ one said.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5ba3...

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Sending out a @romancingthevote.com reminder since I have all these cool comics adjacent people following me now (thank you @gregpak.net lol) We are looking for folks to do joyful/rageful/whatever themed coloring sheets that can be shared as a $1 PDF as part of the auction!

We are partnering with @rainbowbroomfield.org this year so that any money you donate to help sponsor creatives or run the auction will be tax-deductible! And we are excited to be supporting @voteriders.bsky.social again, as well as the Southern Coalition for Social Justice! 💖

Hey y'all! Donna & I are navigating the $ situation, but the most upsetting part is that because she was secondary on her son's acct, he also lost everything. @courtneymilan.com has been peer pressuring us to drop his venmo & we got him set up with his own account. (venmo is @Chaotic_Pretzel !)

Piper J. Drake’s obituary says she was “survived by 33 titles” and that’s the best way of describing a writer’s life that I could possibly imagine. I particularly recommend Wings Once Cursed and Bound: piperjdrake.com/books-by-pip...

Did you discover, as part of the Anthropic settlement, that your publisher failed to register your copyright? The @authorsguild.org is collecting information authorsguild.org/anthropic-cl... (This is a correction of something I posted yesterday w/ a significant error. Apologies for the mistake)

there's clearly a massive scandal in these GJ transcripts. And the public deserves to know what it is.

Please and thank you

We love any excuse to host @novelsbyapril.bsky.social . Lots of laughter and fun last night at our event celebrating the release of her latest book THE CUPID DILEMMA with convo partner @averyflynn.com . Missed the event? We still have signed copies available, so grab yours from our shelves today!

Pretty sure you don’t need to quote ethics experts to say the $1.8bn slush fund is corrupt.

Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies. I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics. It makes Nixon look like a boy scout. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/t...

Obsessed! "Delivers big on banter and bigger on heat." - Kate Canterbary "Will have you searching for your very own grumpy, motorcycle-riding wolf shifter!" - April Asher "Absolute blast of a book and a glorious beast of a hero." - Charlotte Stein

9 years was not an excessive punishment. Peters was a county official who used someone else’s security badge to let a fellow election denier access the whole county's voting data. That is an extreme breach of public trust for the purpose of undermining our democracy; harsh deterrence is vital.

Romancelandia!! The fancy historical romance boxed set campaign is now live. No one knew Kickstarter would become problematic when A&A set this up, but here we are are ... Here's the link. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ahp...

very much of the view that a democratic congress should wield the guarantee clause against ad hoc, mid-decade redistricting, a practice which is an end run against representative government itself

Sex scenes are characterization and sex scenes are worldbuilding and sex scenes are emotional growth and people who don't recognize that and understand it in their bones are going to keep writing samey samey sex scenes that flatten their characters & their world!

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Hi folks! Update on our situation in the next posts, but tl;dr -- we have sought legal representation to resolve our ongoing financial nightmare, but we need to pay for it! Check out our geeky shop or chip in below. 💓 shop: http://thebrokencirc... kofi: ko-fi.com/kitrocha venmo: @kitrocha

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

“.. Andrew Nocella, United’s chief commercial officer, said in an earnings call on Wednesday that the airline had raised prices ‘across the board’ five times since the start of the war.” @nytimes.com #$JETS www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/t...

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These five librarians are running for state political offices across the country. Here's why they're running, and why librarians make good candidates. bookriot.com/librarians-r...

NEW: A Republican U.S. Senate candidate said he's recruiting off-duty police officers to serve as poll watchers in Detroit for the 2026 midterms — and suggested they could flash their badges at voters. Intimidating voters is illegal. Interfering with someone's right to vote is a federal crime.

Are y'all ready to Rumble with Romancing the Vote?!! Everyone is welcome to play. Stay tuned.

"There's a lot of sex in this one..." Early review for Hexy Beast on NetGalley. No lies detected. 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Book Babes! It's newsletter time! I have three free books from the fab Shayla Black, an absolutel adorable bookish Tshirt find from Etsy, a poll about Hexy Beast pre-order goodies, a look at AC Arthur's upcoming dark romance cover & more! view.flodesk.com/emails/69ebb...

Another Election Day in the books. Y’all, bring an elections officer is a long ass day but it’s so worth it. Reach out to your election board and volunteer if you can. Help democracy happen.

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

If you're in North Dakota or Alaska & have a favorite independent bookstore in your state, encourage them to register for Bookstore Romance Day, coming August 15. Those are the only two states not yet represented. forms.gle/P2otJfWaqePC...

Just gonna say that one thing all the people who never came to save us better get ready for: we connected all across this damn country, and we're not going to stop taking care of each other. so glad to have these folks in my network now. 💓

This happening tomorrow! Come see me be a bundle of nervous energy! Watch me and Talia Hibbert gab about all the things we’re obsessed with! Registration is free but required to see us!

Look at this gorgeousness from the fab Leni Kauffman for Hexy Beast my uptight alpha werewolf vs chaos witch fated mates (and fighting it) spicy witchy romcom! I am so grateful to Leni and the team at Berkley for such an amazing cover. Reveiw copies on NetGalley www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Jon from @wotup.bsky.social was the first person I found in the WoT fandom and the reason I made my way into a new community that has given me so many amazing friends. If you have any dollars to spare, please support him & his wife in this incredibly hard time. 💓

Here's the article which includes the actual interview in question. Yes, he absolutely said this and yes, it's in context. wordinblack.com/2025/02/rfk-...

Another morning of ICE sightings happening around Chicagoland and the northwest burbs as yes, they are still here, operating under the surface as they were before Bovino's spectacle.

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

“Instead of “why are they all coming forward now?” we should be asking why Eric Swalwell felt so secure in his abuse that he had the gall to run for Governor of Cali-freakin’-fornia.”

Y'all!!! Are you ready for this cover???? I cannot wait for you to see it! Sign Up For The Reveal --> bit.ly/hexybeastsig...