This week's read is Never Fall for your Fiancee by Virginia Heath. A fake rake fake dates his fake fiance. It's a lot of faking for one book

Every day I drive home from work on this windy mountain road at sunset and it's lovely.

Still on sale! Cozy winter romance

This week's movie is The Outrun, about the healing power of nature, especially the sea. Loved it

🖼️ "clear winter night" by Carol Collette

Witness on the Run is $1.99! bit.ly/46h5nmT

Re-boosting the information about this online course on the history of popular romance because Sam says the course needs "5 more sign ups for it to run!"

Toad was sitting on his front porch. Frog came along and said, “What is the matter Toad? You are looking sad.”

For the morning crowd if you missed us all losing our minds last night NEW KLEYPAS!

I love movies but I will watch football over the globes every time if my team is playing. Until next year Bolts

Disappointed in my favorite team (The Chargers) but that's nothing new. Sad for Justin Herbert. Not his best night. He seems like a deep thinker, maybe to his detriment.

Need a sexy cowboy romance to keep you company? Check out my Cowboys of California! Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Beauty & The Beast, with a contemporary cowboy twist! 🌵 ebook: amzn.to/4cYLaUd / www.kobo.com/us/en/s... 🌵 print: www.therippedbodice.... #blacksky #booksky #romancesky

BOLT UP INTO THE PLAYOFFS #BoltUp

I tried to watch Stephen King's 11.23.63 w/ James Franco. Yikes. I really enjoyed the book but I felt like they ruined the setup. Also Franco is just weird. He did a good narration of The Dead Zone though.

An embroidered silkwork panel, titled Spring Flowers or similar, designed by Helen Adelaide Lamb around 1909–1910.

I realized yesterday that I forgot to mark my 20yr. writing anniversary. I wrote my first novel in 2005. Didn't think of it once in 2025. Damn. I was 29 when I started. A mere babe

Morning.

I read this yesterday (think it was another @feliciadavin.com newsletter rec) and LOVED the characters. I felt a sense of Jennifer Crusie (my favourite!!): the combo of noir + screwball; the protags remaking themselves together + separately; the pop culture throughline that adds depth and levity.

I'm reading Her Night with the Duke by Diana Quincy !

2025 Favorites whiskeyinthejarromance.blogspot.com/2026/01/2025... via @whiskeyinthejar3.bsky.social #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia

My 2025 Year of Reading shallowreader.com/2026/01/07/m... via @vaveros.bsky.social #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia

I'm reading Virginia Heath's Miss Prentice's Protegees series. It's big. Big heroes, big feelings, big mistakes. Also hot

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Next order of business is to continue my historical rom-com gothic mystery whatever it is. It's about an heir to a dukedom investigating the current duke's disappearance and also falling for the duchess.

First order of business is to fill out a questionnaire for Texas 3, Last Man Standing. I suggested a few titles and they picked the most suspenseful sounding one. But I think the books are 75% romance 25% suspense at MOST.

My mission to get up at 4am and write hasn't been 100% successful. Life events, news events, need for zzz. But I actually set my alarm for 4 instead of 5 so I'm all in now.

And it's also a great book! 🥰

The deadly attack on January 1 was the sixth human-mountain lion incident in the area in three months

Back at work this week. I like my routine, staying busy, feeling useful. It's just hard to find time to write. Between my work hours, commute, daily walk, dinner etc. I'm booked. I have to start getting up at 4am again.

Passion & Peril is $1.99. My story is a snowed-in cabin romance with thrills and chills. amzn.to/3TywpAi

My latest book The Starseekers is out today! And in a twist it’s oddly topical despite being set in the 1960s. NASA, student protests, humans vs computers, education, PBS, and museum heist are a few themes I can easily match to current headlines. Which makes it’s fun and very interesting 😅!

If you haven’t read my latest yet, Bald-Faced Liar is on sale on Kindle in the US, UK, & Australia! It’s also FREE to read for Prime members! This book has it all: fruity drinks, nude beaches, creepy stalkers, Romanian gangsters, & flashbacks to the Satanic Panic! 😉 US link: amzn.to/4jBLw6H #booksky

Now that everyone is tired of them, My Favorites of 2025 whiskeyinthejarromance.blogspot.com/2026/01/2025... I slimmed down my awards to my top ten Favorite Quotes, Scenes, and list of top twenty reads of the year. List of 20 Favorites is at end if tl;dr applies, lol. #BookSky #romancelandia

if you, like me, really craved some 40+ year old romance characters, PLEASE get this antho already devoured Mia Hopkins and Kate Canterbary's stories!! amzn.to/4sqOCOY #romancelandia

Done with my Anthropic claims. It took about 2 hrs. I did separate forms for Harlequin (10 titles) and Penguin (5 titles) because I had two different IDs. Some of the titles w/ ISBN and copyright numbers were auto filled. Some weren't.

Finally getting around to filing a claim for the Anthropic settlement. I have 15 works included, 12 by Jill Sorenson and 3 by Susan Cliff. Do I bulk file or single file? Is my unique ID the same for both names?

This weekend's read is Look Before You Leap by Virginia Heath.

Last night's movie: Caught Stealing. Austin Butler plays a drunk loser who looks great in grungy outfits. 90s nostalgia is strong. Entertaining but ugly, and lacks feeling.

Fall white mums looking for the sun. #scape #flowerscape #bloomscrolling #eastcoastkin #photography

Sunrise #sunrise #mttamalpais #mttam #mttamwatershed #baldhill #skyoaksroad #mtdiablo #landscapephotography

Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940

This week's movie was Emilia Perez, and wow! Not what I expected. My husband hates musicals and even he liked it. Original, bold, beautifully made

I had a delightful reading year jillsorenson.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/b...

I'm so thrilled to see Cowboy's Last Stand on a best of the year list. I don't think I've ever been on one of those before. If I have, I can't remember, so it's new again!

It's time to talk about my best reads of 2025 over at the Bat Cave. Quantity was dismal (for me) this year, but it's hard to complain about the quality. It's a genre fiction lover's delight. Read all about 'em here: wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2026/01/read... #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia

My favorite books this year: Never a Duke by Grace Burrowes, Some Like It Scandalous @mayarodale.bsky.social His Majesty's Dragon @naominovik.bsky.social Hello Stranger by Katherine Center, Cold Storage by David Koepp, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by @indiaholton.bsky.social

I think this is the best film I watched in 2025 - Phantom Thread

One of my favorite books from the last few years - The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason. Gorgeous writing, winter survival, nurse/doctor. Not a romance, but what a story.

During a monthlong stay in Sweden, I realized that my Americanized relationship with the outdoors was off track. Here’s what I learned. bit.ly/4smPEvn