This arrived just in time for Valentine's Day. I haven't been this excited for a book in a good long while and the introduction alone has got me hooked. @lucynka.bsky.social

Ooooh fun! From book 6 of the #hockeyromance series I co-wrote as @acsheppard.bsky.social. Chloé is the owner's daughter working in PR, and Drake is the team's new forward. They have *history* and he's definitely a bad boy 🔥 Happy Valentine's Day! 💘 #WriteSky #romancelandia #WIPSnips

These past months I saw multiple posts on Reddit requesting knight/princess romantasies. Today in a free assignment one of my junior students wrote an UBER romantic scene where a knight swears fealty to a lady and brushes her knuckles with his lips, the whole bit. The need is REAL. #romancelandia

So well said. To me saying all romance books are the same because of tropes and HEAs is like saying all children's books are the same because they're short and colorful and use simple language. Within a genre there's an immense variation of talent and style, landmark authors, classics, etc.

I feel like sharing pretty things this week that might brighten up someone's day 🩷

The limitations of magic are the same as our limitations with regards to sports or intense intellectual activity. At some point you're just tired and you need recovery time. When practicioners age, their knowledge is greater but their actual capacities diminish. #Febchantment

If you want to get even more mad at that shitty NY Times “I write 200 romance books a year with AI” article, check out the title they used in the print edition. Do you research by talking with real romance authors and readers, you unethical fucks, we are not “making way” for this garbage.

From this reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/Romantasy/... We need to systematically call out people who generate books using AI, they're harming all of us authors and readers.

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

Using AI is like taking published books, cutting out entire paragraphs, gluing them together, using Wite-Out to change the names, and sticking your name on the cover & saying you wrote it. AI is just faster. Both are theft. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

"she’s taught more than 1,600 people how to produce a novel with artificial intelligence": this person forfeited her right to be called an author. An author creates, imagines, and, you know, WRITES. A grifter uses stolen material to produce a plagiarized work. There are no gray fucking areas here.

99.9% of the time, whatever generative AI and LLMs are used for doesn't justify the precious resources they burn. I can understand why it's hard to give up traveling by plane, but not "I will contribute to wasting water in the middle of a climate catastrophe so ChatGPT can make my grocery list".

This is so relatable and the demise of HH is indeed tragic. The best non-19th century historical I've ever read is the Viking duology by Caitlin Crews. Also books are not TikTok videos. They should not be clones of each other with minor differences. Publishing is digging its own grave.

True magical powers are genetic in my world, with two exceptions: 1) brewing certain potions can be learned (though not the most potent) 2) the power of seeing and fighting supernatural creatures can acquired after a near-death experience.

jeans = 👖 genes = 🧬 Gene =

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

What I like about @bsky.app : 1) default chronological feed 2) no AI slop 3) effective blocking and muting tools. This is all I want from social media, truly. It allows me to turn my feed into a chill, finite space of people nerding out on niche topics, just like the Internet of Yore.

Lock these people in a jail cell and toss the key in the Mariana Trench. It's not an overstatement to say that they are the enemy of everything that is human and true and good. futurism.com/future-socie...

This is actually quite depressing, though in France paperbacks are still super commonplace and sold everywhere. Thank goodness for eBay, right?

Finding out that #promosky is a thing? Hello, I'm Delphine, she/her, in my 40s. My BlueSky ⬇️ 💗 romance 💗 writing 💗 books 💗 vintage clinch covers 💗 nerdy historical stuff 💗 pretty things 💗 rants about how much I hate AI 💗 occasional references to the bygone era of my youth in the 20th century

I'm Delphine & I'm writing my first romantasy series after writing histrom. There's folk magic in my world - amulets, potions, curse tablets, spells. There are a lot of charlatans but some people do have genuine powers, which are needed notably when icky monsters attack.

Never mind the jobs you had, five classes you took in college: 1) Conjunctions 2) Past tenses in narration 3) Religious movements in France and England in the 16th and 17th century 4) Coming-of-age rituals in Ancient Greece 5) Caroligian social structures

One of my FMCs, Inessa, was inspired by Sansa Stark, my favorite GoT character. I was always pissed that fans dismissed her as weak just because she's a bit silly when she's 12 years old (!) and likes ladylike things. And yet she survives so much by adapting and learning to conceal her feelings.

Love reading all the answers here. My most recent Wiki wormhole was the etymology of the title "khan" (linguistic wormholes are the best). Before that I looked up the history of chess and got interested one of the paintings in the article, partly because my setting is inspired by the Renaissance.

"aren't you being a little mean? it's just some ai." No. We can be meaner. Harsher. More demonic. More diabolical. Humiliate harder. Throw alley-oops and dunk on their pathetic attempts to masquerade as a creative person.

I could write a 10K essay about how genre fiction *in its entirety* is dismissed as unserious claptrap in my home country 🇫🇷 and a few years ago a famous "intellectual author" wrote a dystopia and the same critics who shit on SFF were fawning over how groundbreaking it was.

I recently switched books 1 & 2 in my planned romantasy series so I'm starting a brand new WiP. I hope to finish it around June so then I can get back to co-writing hockey romance (which I find easier and more relaxing during the summer). #JanuaryWorldbuilders

I adored season 1, *hated* season 2, was very meh about season 3... But this review has just convinced to watch season 4 of #Bridgerton because I need bonkers escapism atm. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

#WordWeavers 26/1: What is your current project teaching you, craft-wise or personally? That crafting and writing well takes time, and it's crazy that the current publishing landscape is pushing for the exact opposite. #WriteSky #writingcommunity

Writing is described as a solitary activity but I cannot overstate the importance of having a trusted writing friend. Not only to beta read, but to brainstorm the outline + worldbuilding too. I just hit a major snag in my WiP and I couldn't make big changes without talking it out. #WriterSky

Best writing advice I ever got was from my friend Anne (who got it from a workshop iirc) was that the world of your story is like an elaborate stained glass window. Take it, smash it on the ground in a million shards, and scatter those shards throughout the story.

I love writing dark romantasy and all, but damn if I don't want to write a lovely summery low drama low stakes historical romance set at a house party in the countryside every time I see a Fragonard painting.

#AwesomeCharacters I absolutely LOVE naming characters. It's always the first step of my story because I can't envision and thus write MCs if I don't name them (I can use placeholders for minor characters). I spend a lot of time on onomastikons and it brings me joy when I find the perfect name.

I read an interesting post (can't remember by who) discussing a new tendency in romance to write flawless cinnamon roll MMCs who are never in conflict with the FMC so the reader feels safe. I get it, but then I don't see how you can build a proper romance dynamic and story beats. It's a thin line.

2026 may not be the year I go analog, but it will be the year where I definitively limit social media to niche interests and a chronological feed of people I follow. Here I chitchat about romance, give updates on my WIP and post pretty things that bring me joy. Happy to have you follow along.

Nothing says "prestige edition and homage to historical romance" like cartoon illustrations and a romantasy-type cover. It's kind of ironic to defend historical romance by using the aesthetics of other genres to sell them and brush clinch covers under the rug.

Ooooh this is a good one. From my current #romantasy WIP, set in a Renaissance-type world with court intrigue, monster hunters and magic. #WIPSnips #writersky #writingcommunity #romancelandia

Interesting conversation. This articulates well why my activity on social media is around 20% of what it once was. Even if your core values stay the same, some opinions inevitably fluctuate with life experience, age, etc. Social media creates a world in which this is unnatural and reprehensible.

Anne and I just finished book 6 in our hockey romance series. 75K words of discussing, writing, editing, rewriting. I'm also working on my romantasy WiP, one chapter at a time. I don't care if it takes me a year to finish. Without the creative process, there would no point in any of this for me.

We are ONE chapter away from finishing book 6 (!) in our Hamilton Steelhawks #hockeyromance series. I had a hard time choosing a snippet but here's a steamy one for you all. @acsheppard.bsky.social #WIPsnips #writersky #writingcommunity #romancelandia

This got me thinking about my current WiP. I sometimes don't feel legitimate writing romantasy because I've read so few, but otoh the world I built is basically a Renaissance setting with supernatural elements and the tone is very similar to historicals. The two genres are close IMO.

Since #hockeyromance is having a moment, Simon & Schuster decided to one up HarperCollins and publish this trash. Why settle for a mediocre romance written by a hockey WAG influencer when you can get a violent sexist bully to co-author? #romancelandia www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

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NGL this probably triggered my undying love for romance.

I'm not usually one to take pictures of my food but these cupcakes are too pretty not to share 😍 #foodsky

Apparently I'm not done ranting. Not naming names, IYKYK who I'm talking about. This person had a sizeable following to begin with but gained a lot of traction with a "cool edgy girl bashing silly romance novels" act. There was also mocking of BookTok videos made by much smaller accounts. 1/?

Nothing like a TikTok influencer who called out romance for being "inaccurate" and "cliché" to her 100K followers, then wrote a romance herself with glaring inaccuracies and overused tropes. Respect the genre, ffs. Don't claim you can fix it then come out with this crap. #romancelandia

I spent all day at a book fair sandwiched between two male authors doing the hard sell. Maybe it's just show but they both seemed so confident pitching their stuff to everyone. Meanwhile I'm struggling with impostor syndrom and silently waiting for until someone asks me about my books. 🫠

Is there anything better than receiving this sort of package from a dear friend? #romancelandia #vintageromance

I've read that #romantasy and #fantasyromance aren't the same? Romantasy: one couple over several books and no HEA after book 1. Fantasy romance: one couple + HEA per book in a series. In which case I'm definitely writing fantasy romance and not romantasy 🫠 Help a girl out #romancelandia