If you ever want to give an author whose book you've loved a magical free gift, recommend their book to someone.

It's so exciting being a freelancer in the arts & ents industry (one of the UK's biggest industries) bc about once a month the gvt have a new proposal to kick you in the head & you have to fill in a dry consultation form explaining why kicking you in the head would be bad for business, not good

Unsolicited writng advice, no. 82: Don't worry about "what publishers want". Publishers have no idea what they want. That's why they're constantly being surprised by 'surprise bestsellers', like goldfish repeatedly astonished by the reapparence of the little plastic castle they saw a minute ago.

Guy on the radio earlier saying we should all save our shower water and use that to flush the toilet. Around 60 companies are responsible for 80% of all global carbon emissions; telling us as individuals to do something without addressing that is just gaslighting and guilt tripping.

This week's Tuesday snippet comes from my cozy-spooky fantasy rom-com Wooing the Witch Queen, which is available in ebook, paper, and audiobook: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen #romancelandia

This holiday, I thought I'd do some quality Thinking About Writing. Even brought a notebook. I have read 3 books instead. Apparently, the creative rest I needed was to read more fiction.

The algorithm keeps showing me clips from the #Goblin 10th anniversary reunion and I am here for it. The four actors get along so well!

Here's my review of A Paranormal Therapist's Guide to Divorce by Sylvia Steere

Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.

What better way to celebrate the 4th of July than by getting a bunch of my novels, with a big chunk of your purchase price going to World Central Kitchen, my selected charity for this bundle. Pay what you like (the more you pay, the more you get), and help feed people in need all over the world.

Weather wearing you down? Maybe you'd like to read about a 40-something who gets kickass powers during a terrible heatwave. Available in print, ebook and audio (narrated by the amazing Natalie Naudus!) rubylangwrites.com/the-glowing-...

Today's messing around with Canva led to this fun image.

Here's my review of The Winged Game by Sophie Kim

This is such a bargain right now!!

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... We've known all this for decades, there just hasn't been the will to do much to help.

I started watching Voicemails For Isabelle and I don't know if I can make it through the 'young woman loses her sister' trauma.

It's publication day for The Christmas Express on the Brambleberry Steam Railway. If you like any of these things: - small town romance - supportive friend groups - STEM heroines - kind hearted heroes - SNOW and Christmas vibes... ...then you'll like this book. books2read.com/XmasExpress

#Beverley looking stunning today. Brilliant to chat with @chrisspeckwriter.bsky.social Joy Stonehouse and @jeevanicharika.bsky.social at the local #eastyorkshire group. Lots of info, and food for thought. So glad it’s back! Thanks Chris for organising. @societyofauthors.bsky.social #writerslife

I put my big girl pants on and bravely looked at #Netgalley reviews of The Wedding Planner's Guide. Four stars on average. Phew!

Book review: Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis I loved Wooing the Witch Queen, so I grabbed this when it came out. Lorelei, who poses as someone frivolous - but in reality is anything but - kidnaps the enemy general Gerard de Morieu (this happened at the end of the first book) and for…

If you like a book TELL THE WORLD.

If you're a young trans man or trans masc person who needs a dad today, congrats. I am your dad now. I am proud of you and what you've accomplished although some of your young person culture and choices perplex me. I am proof trans men can be middle aged married dudes. You can be too some day. Live.

This week's Sunday snippet comes from my cozy fantasy rom-com Wooing the Witch Queen, which is out now in ebook, paperback, and audiobook: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen #romancelandia

Note how white people in Embra aren’t being burned out or their homes and Nigel Farage isn’t calling for “pure cold rage” etc. But, also, note the relative lack of media coverage compared to the other nutter in Belfast.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

Now you can link clips in Canva video editor. This makes things so much easier. youtu.be/f8KhnDlXPvo

I'm signing books at Clutterbooks in #Hornsea today - pop in and say hi, if you're around.

Two days ago, a man in Hull was sentenced to 26 months in jail (suspended for 18 months) and 250 hours of unpaid work for selling CDs containing "unauthorised remixes of well-known tracks"

I'm going to a pottery painting cafe this weekend. What should I paint?

Book review: Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis I picked up this book because two different friends recommended it to me when I asked for books where the hero has no power compared to the heroine. The hero in this book is a ruler (technically), but he's also a very damaged victim of abuse…

I'm not really sure how I missed that Kira's books are free but here we are and omg thats awesome!

Harshini Fernando exlains the various reasons why your KDP account may get banned. www.writtenwordmedia.com/kdp-account-...

OLLIE'S BIG CLEAR OUT! Here are 3 shelves of HUGELY popular kids books You can have any FOUR for £10 (free P+P). Deals can be negotiated. Please share (and buy). UK only.

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......

All of this. I will *always* stand with libraries.

Book review: Redshirts by John Scalzi I bought this book because of the title. I watched Star Trek when I was a kid so it caught my eye. The premise sounded fun.Ensign Dahl is assigned to the Intrepid, which seems to have a really high death rate, especially amoung ensigns who go on away missions.…

I would like to thank the brilliant Opthalmic department at Calderdale Hospital Within 24 hours of having an eye test. I had an emergency operation on two retinal tears in my right eye. There are political parties in the UK who want to privatise our NHS. Don't be fooled. @england.nhs.uk

A few years ago, someone replied to a newsletter email to say that my charging £1.99 for an ebook was 'outrageous' and they would never pay that much for a book. I quietly unsubscribed them from my newsletter.

This made my afternoon

This week's Sunday snippet comes from my enemies-to-lovers fantasy rom-com (with just a *tiny* bit of kidnapping on her part) Enchanting the Fae Queen, which is out in ebook, paper, and audiobook: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen #romancelandia

I wrote a book that's mostly light hearted women's fiction, but contains themes about grief (and falling in love after losing someone). The Valentine's Express on the Brambleberry Steam Railway is reduced to £1.99 all this week. -Small town - Found family - HEA books2read.com/Valentinesex...

I (28F) am in love w my computer game buddy (???M) but he's not interested because he's in love w someone in real life Also, there's this IT guy at work (30M) who's asking me out. He's cute, but he's not gamer guy, is he? Advice pls. PLAYING FOR LOVE https://books2read.com/PFL

- New adult romance - Overworked, grumpy hero (big brother's ex-friend) - Fresh-out-of-uni heroine - A rambling old house in Oxford - Sri Lankan party food! Nominated for RNA Romantic Comedy award 2017 Buy Girl Having A Ball https://books2read.com/GHAB

Here is my review of SLOW BURN by Amal Singh

-small town romance -second chance (love after loss) -enemies (ish) to lovers -looking after a teenager when there's no phone signal! -family loyalty is complicated Belonging - a ##romance ##novella ##britishromance www.books2read.com/u/bzPAZq

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I opened my laptop to do something specific. I can't remember what it is now.

I opened my laptop to do something specific. I can't remember what it is now.