This is such a fun little novella and might have been the first romance I ever read? A great start, tbh, if unflattering for some of its successors. Check it ouuuut

You can pre-order a print edition of Jade Yeo with a glorious new cover now! Check out the link for details ⬇️

Happy Deepavali! My 3yo came home from nursery brimming with excitement: "We light candles to help Sita and Rama get home. The bad guy has loads of heads."

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Sally Rooney writes contemporary romance

If you've ever wanted a version of JADE YEO that you could hold and dogear and put on your shelf, this is your chance! I've seen the new cover and it's going to be SUCH a cute book, please support Homeward Books so they can publish it ✨

OCTOBER EVENT: This Fri 10th Oct, we are very excited to welcome award-winning fantasy & romance author @zenaldehyde.bsky.social. Come and join us at The Warehouse, Birmingham Friends of the Earth, or join us on Zoom. Tickets available on the door or via Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1774794641549

Oh my interview with Tatler Asia is out, cool!! Thanks @gavingrant.bsky.social 😊

Hooray! My new tea & vampires novella (set at a most unusual inn in the Black Forest) is out NOW on my Patreon: patreon.com/stephanieburgis Subscribe at the Dragon Ruler level to grab it now, or preorder it for $2.99/£2.49 to get it on Sept 29th: books2read.com/stephanieburgis #romancelandia

Ooh, guess what arrived while we were gone? Shiny, beautiful copies of the French edition of Scales and Sensibility (Dragons & Sentiments)!!! Aren't they gorgeous? Look at that foil! 😍 And thanks so much, again, to @tansyrr.bsky.social & @zenaldehyde.bsky.social for the blurbs, now in French! :)

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

The Kickstarter for @spires.bsky.social's SF novella ELLIPSES is live! If you like exoplanet exploration, first contact and microbiology in addition to friendships, love and ship AIs, this one's for you. Check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

If you missed any of this year's #BookstoreRomanceDay virtual programming, or if you just want to watch your favorite panels again, everything has been uploaded to the BRD YouTube channel for you to watch at any time. You can also catch events from previous years! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

ICYMI, my Harwood Spellbook series of frothy feminist romantasy novellas (+ 1 short novel) is now available as an ebook boxset. All of my patrons at the $5/month level or higher can grab it now: patreon.com/stephanieburgis & everyone else can grab it here: books2read.com/harwood-box #romancelandia

Start tomorrow off with a David Bowie earworm & authors #AveryKeelan, @zenaldehyde.bsky.social, @cynthiatimoti.bsky.social, & @vikeeland.bsky.social with moderator Becca Oman of Island Books as they talk all things Modern Love. 8/10 at 10 AM Eastern on Zoom. Register here: bit.ly/4ffrmxe

#BookstoreRomanceDay is THIS WEEKEND! Have you claimed your spots for the great line up of virtual events? www.eventbrite.com/cc/bookstore...

Start your Sunday off with a David Bowie earworm & authors #AveryKeelan, @zenaldehyde.bsky.social, @cynthiatimoti.bsky.social, & @vikeeland.bsky.social with moderator Becca Oman of Island Books as they talk all things Modern Love. 8/10 at 10 AM Eastern on Zoom. Register here: bit.ly/4ffrmxe

AND tonight is the very last chance to scoop up the audiobooks of Claws & Contrivances and Good Neighbors (along with several other awesome audiobooks) for just $4.99 apiece, no matter where in the world you are! Find them all: books.bookfunnel.com/buydirectaud... #romancelandia

For only one week, the ebook of Wooing the Witch Queen is on sale at every US online bookstore - and at least some Canadian ones, too! - for just $2.99. Snap it up now: us.macmillan.com/books/978125... #romancelandia

Stumbled across this interview I did when promoting The Blue, Beautiful World a couple of years ago. Still stand by my choices! fivebooks.com/best-books/g...

two of my fave authors, @zenaldehyde.bsky.social and @freyamarske.bsky.social were on the Lithub podcast a little bit ago to chat about their work as SFF and romance authors, and the slipperiness of genre boundaries.

stealing time to read @zenaldehyde.bsky.social's Behind Frenemy Lines on my lunch break, I am startled by the sudden appearance of our regular volunteer to demand the book's title: "I can't remember the last time anything I read has made me smile as much as you're smiling right now!"

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Keep forgetting to mention this. B&N's preorder sale runs until tomorrow. 25% off preorders with code PREORDER25. Preorder _The Subtle Art of Folding Space_ now! (Weird physics! Family drama! Delicious food!) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-subtle...

Feels like a good time to remind the SF community that this is coming in December and you can order it now!

It's time for another B&N preorder sale! Preorder Enchanting the Fae Queen from today through Friday for 25% off with the code PREORDER25: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/enchanting... #romancelandia

Audiobook Narrator Spotlight: Catherine Ho www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read... “Their approach to religion was to leave the gods alone, in the hope the gods would return the favour.” ~ "Black Water Sister" by @zenaldehyde.bsky.social

I recently finished reading Black Water Sister by @zenaldehyde.bsky.social, who has such an uncanny gift for place and voice. I loved her Sorcerer to the Crown books and Black Water Sister is as vivid while being completely different. This is a book about the boxes we put ourselves in out of fear.

Behind Frenemy Lines by @zenaldehyde.bsky.social is an ABSOLUTE BANGER and I cannot rec it highly enough Loved both MCs to bits, but - in a first for me in an m/f romance - I think I maybe loved the male MC just a tiny smidge more than the female MC?? Mind blown. Didn't know that was possible

Out in the UK today!! 🎉🎉

Having the *best* time this week reading Spirits Abroad by @zenaldehyde.bsky.social – basically perfect summer reading, little bites of prosaic magical exotic ordinary delight. Full of sentences I want to read out to anyone who'll listen (so, mostly the cat).

happy belated pub day to @zenaldehyde.bsky.social's BEHIND FRENEMY LINES which was so good I lost an entire afternoon of work after treating myself to "just a chapter" at lunch

Out in the US now and UK from tomorrow! I'll pop order links below ⬇️ I loved writing this legal romcom about two very different people who find a friend (and love) where they least expect it, I hope it offers refuge/escape to anyone who needs it 💕

1. Spirits Abroad by @zenaldehyde.bsky.social A fantastically magical collection of spec fic that's got something for every reader. So many of the stories here encapsulate a whole word within a few pages, offering inspiration & entertainment at the same time. It's just a gorgeous #SFF collection.

New #Shelfies alert! This week, we have @zenaldehyde.bsky.social on Lat, Lord, Basu and Mitchison! Remember you can subscribe for a free weekly shelfie straight in your inbox! Or follow us on our ever-growing Instagram page.

The full recording of the 2025 Tolkien Lecture, 'The Uses of Fantasy' by @zenaldehyde.bsky.social, is now available on the Tolkien Lecture YouTube channel! youtu.be/_ZhcGNoD5xA

Oh hey, it's my huge face, talking about writing while being a full-time caregiver. I don't think we talk about this stuff enough—so here I am talking about it. "How do you create when half the work you do is devoted to seeing someone toward their end?"

Snapshots from the 2025 Tolkien Lecture! It was a pleasure to welcome @zenaldehyde.bsky.social as our speaker—we hope everyone who joined us enjoyed a fantastic evening ✨ #tolkienlecture #zencho

I love these books too, and am looking forward to sharing them with my kids. Very glad to hear they're being rereleased.

Delighted to hear Mars Evacuees and Space Hostages are being re-released. These are some phenomenal mid-grade SF books, some of the very small list of books my son really took to, and which I hugely enjoyed reading to him.

I'm reading Taiwan Travelogue so I had to make lurou fan (kids' portion pictured. don't @ me about the ketchup, my children are barbarians)

This was a really good interview:

Zen Cho's BEHIND FRENEMY LINES hit the sweet spot for me for romance novels: protagonists who are too smart to not be stupid. I couldn't put the book down as Kriya and Charles negotiated their way through lawyer life (with its attendant bad bosses & moral quandaries) to their happy ending. A treat!

Another reminder that this delightful thing is apparently taking place next year: www.facebook.com/profile.php?... I am referring to it as the 'Conference of Me', and it is accepting submissions of papers! The deadline is September, and here is the form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Did you know that @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social 's LADY EVE'S LAST CON was one of NY Times' Best Romance Novels of 2024? "Propulsive fun." @freyamarske.bsky.social "A charming, space-hopping, queer rom-com" @voidcricket.bscky.social Grab in eBook it for only 0.99! geni.us/Solarissale

Just one week until acclaimed fantasy author @zenaldehyde.bsky.social delivers this year’s Tolkien Lecture! For those unable to attend in person, the lecture will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel. We can’t wait to see you all there! #tolkienlecture #zencho @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social

My upcoming legal romance BEHIND FRENEMY LINES is on Netgalley UK now! Request to read it here: www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

On holiday, the kids are asleep. I open my new book, having yesterday finished the same author's wartime diaries, written mostly at Carradale ... Turns out I accidentally bought a signed book by one of my favourite authors for £3.50! What a nice little birthday gift from the universe.