My second book, Lavash at First Sight revolves around a meet cute over a lost conference badge!! A problem big enough to bring two strangers together 🧿

I am so glad I logged onto BlueSky today, just for this

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

It's great how watching sexual harassment training videos makes my heart rate & blood pressure soar, still not over the events of 15 yrs ago. My body still thinks its in danger. I want to put these people on blast & write about my experience, but I feel no one is interested in these stories anymore.

♥️ this quote @robertarjoyan.bsky.social it’s why we write to have these conversations with ourselves first, if we are lucky enough to have other people read our stuff, it allows them to think about it & we talk about it, acknowledge that this ought to be discussed www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrnP...

This is article lays out a very important form of leverage the people around the world can use against evil megalomaniac Elon Musk. A Tesla boycott is essential right now. If you own a Tesla, please sell it.

Excellent story by @robertarjoyan.bsky.social is up and ready for you to read!

Are you going to Love Y'All Romance Book Fest this weekend? I can’t wait to see you there!! Here’s all the places you can find me! So excited to celebrate with everyone!!

This is fantastic news!

The story @robertarjoyan.bsky.social has in here is *incredible*

TONIGHT! I'll be in Mountain View with @taratai.com gushing over her incredible book! Come out!

Hey pro authors & editors, you can switch your MS Word subscription to one that does NOT include AI for the same rate they used to offer. (They're charging more for subscriptions and not telling you they're actually forcing you to opt into the new one with AI) IF you still need to use MS

Wrote an article about what I learned from Tessa Bailey. I'd been doing romance wrong! Now I know better. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/taleenvo...

Thank you for the Sorry, Bro audiobook shoutout, Shannon!

Get in the holiday spirit with this fantastic Christmas crime flash by @robertarjoyan.bsky.social ! Ah, misguided Mister Montrose..

Is Substack down? Sent my newsletter out about an hour ago and the site won't load for me. Can't tell if it's on my end or everyone.

I listen to this fantastic song about once a month and each time re-congratulate myself on avoiding a career disaster: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs-U... (I love the lawyers in my life, but I would have been a terrible one, no doubt of it)

There are new faces here 🫣 So I thought I would reintroduce myself! My name is Taylor (they/them) and I’m a horror/dark fantasy writer repped by @litagentmarini.bsky.social 🥰 My debut, Hollow, comes out next year with Peachtree Teen, and you can often find me playing cello! Hello!! #booksky💙📚

It's here! My massive Substack post about metaphors, plus some book and personal updates: open.substack.com/pub/taleenvo...

one of my FAVORITES of Naz' stories which is really saying something. Keep your eye on this anthology

so gorgeous, congratulations Liana!

writing a substack post so long I hit the word limit 💀

Armenian writers of Blue Sky! Comment and tag @robertarjoyan.bsky.social if you want to be added!

Looking for Queer Author on Bluesky? Ooooh do we have a starter pack for you! And to keep you in the know, we'll keep adding more as they appear on the show 🏳️‍🌈 go.bsky.app/7ZaExGH

Ah Black Friday, the day you're reminded just how many brands' email lists you're subscribed to

Oh, just about a million and a half Armenians. And believe you me, they’re still hanging around. #HorrorWritersChat

They are a huge help to us at our bookstore. We know our rep. He helps us with our mediocre tech skills. We talk about how much we enjoy working with him! All of that on top of everything else they do. They are legit.

Also, unlike Audible, you actually own the audiobook files instead of leasing them, as Amazon’s model is designed to do. Fellow romance addicts should also check out the Kiss Club: libro.fm/kissclub 🥰

Same here!! Libro.fm gives you all that you like about Audible except you're supporting indie bookstores instead of You Know. Every audiobook purchase goes to support the bookstore of your choice.

Thanks for the Lavash shoutout, Naz! I also loved The Reformatory and Small Mercies on this list. Haven't read the rest but now I want to.

Excellent Sunday morning reading. May I entice you with this one detail within: the Ethiopian emperor's dentist! Armenian personal histories are always fascinating (even while, of course, tragic). Thank you for sharing this, Lori.

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Armenian Grandma: Boy, finish your coffee and flip the cup. Ah, very good. I see… hmm, a woman dancing under a pomegranate tree. See? And in three days or three weeks you’ll get good news. Oof, why do you believe this nonsense? Also—

I made one of these!

In case you haven't heard, the audiobook of Sorry, Bro is beautifully narrated by Christine Mirzayan. Your ears will be blessed by her reading of Armenian proverbs. Oops slipped and dropped these links! Audible: adbl.co/4fWgzXS Libro.fm: bit.ly/sorrybrolibro

Hmm I'm chatting with Xfinity based on a text that Xfinity sent me (from a number they've texted me confirmations for years) but the agent is so chatty I feel like I am being scammed. He asked me what he should get his daughter for her birthday and telling me about his happy memories in the snow.

COVER SKETCHES IN MY INBOX!!!!! For Our Ex's Wedding ahhh I can't wait to see the final color version!

I'm getting ready to send a newsletter tomorrow in a totally new format (and via substack!!) in which I detail some of my publishing stats. If you wanna peep, sign up for my newsletter here: www.taleenvoskuni.com/contact.html

all the love for these two

My Brazilian Portuguese version of Sorry, Bro arrived!! Foi mal, Cara 💙💜💖 Thank you Astral Cultural for translating and publishing my book about Armenian culture and sexuality acceptance and making it available to a whole new swath of readers. Obrigado!

Me in my echo chamber

SPEAKING OF WHICH update your website

I have read primarily Romance this year and I am really delighted about the number of new (and new-to-me) authors I've read and enjoyed enough to immediately buy/preorder another by them. So far I'm at Xio Axelrod, Julie Soto, Tarah DeWitt, Ella Easton, Hannah Bonam-Young, Jen Devon & Jen Comfort.

Bookish checkpoint: ✧ last book you read: Serpentine Valentine by Giana Darling ✧ your current read: Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo ✧ last book added to tbr: All Fours by Miranda July ✧ next anticipated read: The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce #booksky 💙📚

well, I got logged out of Twitter so I think that's it, never getting in again

alright, I'll bite for the night crowd. I'm Taleen, author of the first sapphic Armenian romcom ever published: Sorry, Bro. It's my book baby forever, and I'd love if you could check it out: amzn.to/3Btmvqq (p.s. if you buy the audiobook it's as if you bought 5.5 paperbacks, so...ya know, feel free)

That cancelled TV show you’ll never stop thinking about

wrote one good metaphor

Browsing my GR feed for the first time in a million years and learned there is currently a US giveaway on for ARCs of COME AS YOU ARE! You've got until the 25th to enter! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

One of my great joys, seeing my novel in airports next to my buddies' books

SILENCE. Where my silence writers at?