Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️

"That this kind of imaginative consolidation is bad for art feels so obvious it’s hardly worth saying. Instead of telling their own stories, creatives are funneled into pre-existing IP, often with corporate-issued limitations on what kind of stories they can tell." HIT IT RIGHT ON THE HEAD 🔥

"Reylo and Dramione booms function like media franchises for book publishing, banking on and extending the reach of reliably lucrative IP. For publishing houses, it’s a clear win. These books can cash in on fannish enthusiasm through an always plausibly deniable connection to the fannish property."

when u get flagged by bksy's moderation and it ISN'T anything to do with your 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ book but instead a wikipedia link. c'mon. i'm insulted

COVER CLOSE-UP! I always knew I wanted this cover to have - old-school "clinch" feel - watercolor style - all 3 chars. I handed Jan (@thistlearts.bsky.social) a challenge and he delivered! Just look at D’Arcy’s expression. Ev’s demeanor. Vitya’s precious face. 😭 On NetGalley now: emcaro.carrd.co

hehe nice

While I am generally not the target market for any sort of nonconsensual sexual content, there is absolutely no world in which you can trust to the discretion of moderators in judging this sort of thing. It will always end badly, and in a different place from where YOU thought the line was.

accommodate. also pseudo. and i have been known to use "tardy" instead of "tarry" (as a verb), but for that i blame the spanish.

go get this!

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

as my goodreads moratorium hasn't begun yet (reviews are for readers, not me), i got to see this. how is this real life??? my book is on LISTS. thanku goodreads librarians 🙏

btw if you are a librarian in any capacity i am approving you instantly 🫶 also i just found out KDP is (allegedly) allowing library ebook distribution alongside KU exclusivity, so. yes. libraries. hopefully. 👀

btw if you are a librarian in any capacity i am approving you instantly 🫶 also i just found out KDP is (allegedly) allowing library ebook distribution alongside KU exclusivity, so. yes. libraries. hopefully. 👀

everything went downhill when they took porn off tumblr

self-promo sucks right now, this year, this regime. HOWEVER i did write a book about a queer man at long last reaching his breaking point with one regime in particular (the British) and then struggling to regain his whole sense of self while married to a Very Moral Pirate. oh + lots of fucking.

just absolutely furious with @alixeharrow.bsky.social for being such a goddamn genius "the contradictory heart of what prose does, which is to waste the reader’s time as efficiently and sexily as possible...a reader gives you their time, and you tell them, word by word, how to spend it." y E s

MAHA vs the U.S. corn lobby is going to be a real Let Them Fight situation

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

COVER REVEAL 🔥✨🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈 I’m so excited to finally show folks this BEAUTIFUL cover!! Stunning art by Jan (@thistlearts.bsky.social), who not only obliged me in portraying all three (!!!) of my queer, poly, radical pirates—he also absolutely nailed their dynamic! Coming March 17, 2026! emcaro.carrd.co

the ai sludge that buckaroo authors are now endlessly sent by robots summarizing their books and then offering 'promotional services' is very annoying, but i did have a good laugh that the made up name some dang computer came up with to sound like a real editor was HARPER COLLINSWORTH

Also, the money that would otherwise have gone to creatives and spent back into the economy is funnelled upwards to techbros who've never felt the warmth of real human connection from art and who are hoarding obscene wealth

This whole thread is gold for polyam books but THESE. yes. also the cutest covers!!

fun fact: both Everard and Vitya use their maternal surnames by active choice and preference! Everard because he's contrary. Vitya because he loves his mother. 🥹 (D'Arcy does not/cannot, being gentry, but keeping his father's name is probably just as much rebellion as the others, tbh 😆)

It’s a sports romance book starter pack, for all your autumn reading lists! We’ve got: baseball, football, soccer, tennis, hockey, F1, skating, and even a series set in a fictional Olympic games (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b... #Romancelandia #booksky

This is a reminder that Bookshop is offering 20 percent off select titles to celebrate Latin American Heritage Month, including THE BEWITCHING and other books (Latinoland, The Unworthy, etc). Use code LHM25 at checkout to receive 20% off. bookshop.org/lists/adult-...

My friend M just left an abusive relationship and could really use some help right now. If you've got a dollar or two to spare, or if you could boost this, I'd really appreciate it! gofund.me/7607b353f

@feliciadavin.com DID read this (to my complete and utter astonishment and gratitude) and what is more, BLURBED IT TOO?! 😭 😭 😭

COVER REVEAL 🔥✨🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈 I’m so excited to finally show folks this BEAUTIFUL cover!! Stunning art by Jan (@thistlearts.bsky.social), who not only obliged me in portraying all three (!!!) of my queer, poly, radical pirates—he also absolutely nailed their dynamic! Coming March 17, 2026! emcaro.carrd.co

brb, buying a thin little chain

ok i Do Not Approve of AI summaries but... the storygraph for my book is cracking me up. WE STEAL OUR FAMILIES we're PIRATES ok and we CRAVE radical ideals!!

I think Romance gonna be okay. A million effing bucks, y'all! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ahp...

I want ALL of these 👀

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

updated the reading (new to me, actually finished books) spreadsheet for the year and it is depressingly short. double digits. yes, it is an accurate view into the mental state lately x.X

EVERYONE STOP cheese wheel of cheeses

every so often in Romance (a genre I have read incessantly since I was 11), i am recommended something i simply don't know how i lived without reading. this is one of THOSE. i am 30 or 40 years old and lived so long without it?! HOW (+ a *really* cool easter egg that went totally over my head)

attempted to nightshade my cover for the reveal. computer immediately screamed about the render using 12GB of RAM. (was monitoring memory use.) mind you, i have 8GB total. abort! abort! so. i have recruited husband's gaming GPU. 😂 anyway, this is a pain the ass but genAI can eff all the way off.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

me, coping extremely badly with everything happening: time to read a novel with the premise "honorable twink is kidnapped by a pirate captain in the 1700s and they fall madly in love," totally unrelated to and by a different author than the first novel i read with the same premise 2 weeks ago

seeing as i don't owe my agent anything atm, i'm back to just... staring at my book cover in awe. 😂 😍

i gotta say, ingramspark has been 200% faster than everybody and their brother told me it would be. frex i got my latest proofs in FIVE DAYS including a weekend. a *week-end*! (said like Violet Crawley)

lmao i saw a meme about thresher sharks and i thought "they can't possibly look that panicked" but they DO

My envy is immense!!

WRITING IS FUN AND COOL

🌈COVER REVEAL🌈 From the acclaimed author of Chef's Kiss and A Gentleman's Gentleman comes a riotous Regency romp, featuring a charming and unforgettable genderfluid lead. A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS is out March 10. Preorder & full synopsis: tjalexander.com#books6

Peter Darling is, hands down, the best Peter Pan reimagining I have ever read.

daily whine: making promo shit feels like taking on a part-time job. except i don't get paid (hahaha), and in fact all the resources are 💸💸

It's the best time of the year! #SapphicSeptember is here and one of this year's themes is sapphic knights, which is one of my favorite things to both write and read about. You can get this lesbian-centered, trans-inclusive, high heat Arthuriana series direct at my shop: riengray.shop ⚔️

a big BIG reason i decided to go indie with Rears & Vices (besides the obvious; trad simply wasn't buying historical romance, and especially not queer, *poly* histrom) was that I knew all the promo would be expected of me anyway. 🫠 🫠