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Now this is journalism. Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.

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HELP WANTED: Satyr Romance Authors 🐐 I analyzed 400 Amazon titles in Greek monster romance and found a massive gap. (thread 🧵)

“Adversarial Poetry” is my new favorite tech phrase. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

The orc romance market has clear winners: 5 authors control 53% of the top 100 Amazon bestsellers. But readers on Reddit, Bluesky, and YouTube are requesting something different. I analyzed both to find the gaps👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/reverse-en...

Today is one of those days when I am looking at a bunch of social media and Amazon data and trying to puzzle out the difference between what sells and what readers actually ask for.

Thank you so much to @creaturefeature.bsky.social for letting me spotlight them and their adult toys business this week on my blog 🫶 Go read it here and check out their gorgeous stuff 👉👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/three-frie...

I'm trying to build some social listening Python scripts for romance trends in the speculative space (like monster romance...), and I really need Bluesky to stay a bastion of nsfw art and furries because this data is a potential gold mine for understanding what people want.

The AWS outage is a great reminder that Amazon’s power in the markets isn’t as a shopping platform (even though they can make or break individual small businesses at any time). Their real revenue comes from hosting huge swathes of the Internet.

Sometimes you spend too long collecting stuff about omegaverse conventions for a werewolf deep dive piece and then—Whoops! You have a reference guide you can double as a blog post! 😅 #nerdproblems 👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/alphas-bet...

Dropped $50 to get the Witch’s Library. My digital library is about to get an insane injection of quality smut ❤️

‘I’d die screaming if a reader got a tattoo related to my work’ Alexis B Osbourne went from writing fanfiction to creating her popular Heatverse series, and she’s not done yet. Read about her journey from almost quitting to Kickstarter success 👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/this-autho...

This would be a hilarious premise for a demon rom-com 😈 youtube.com/shorts/B8szh...

Here is me having too much fun doing deep dive research on werewolves and shifters for my September newsletter missives. Mad Libs meets blurbs! My own creation is on my Substack 👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/create-you...

If the forces of the universe are just horny freaks and need this sort of appeasement for the world to get some peace, then, well? So be it.

His [BODY PART] ripples with barely contained power, and his [COLOR] eyes promise [SOMETHING SPICY].

I might be having too much fun making a Mad Libs style post on my Substack for making up a Werewolf Romance. 🐺

Meet Conky, an artist lovingly threatening us with monster romance magic 💖🔫👀 👻Ghost Adventures work soundtrack 💀 OCs are undead/skeleton/ghouls 🍵 Matcha with marshmallow syrup hyperfixation This is needed #booksky artist energy. Link here 👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/meet-an-ar...

The best part of this crazy post on the Romantasy subreddit is asking if pirating the book might help her case 😂 Let’s not even get into whether this is real. I know it is Reddit, but I want to indulge my gullible nature. ☺️ www.reddit.com/r/Romantasy/...

🐺 This nerd is excited! Just launched The Bestiary Society after readers asked for deeper monster romance dives. Already have 2 subscribers and I'm feeling so honored 😭 Sept 1: Werewolves deep dive (3k+ words + market data) Early bird: $40/year until Sept 7 substack.com/home/post/p-...

“…and he knew how to use it LOL” Just dropped a new interview with Trish Heinrich who went from writing angel hybrids to creating alien princes with mating venoms Check it out here👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/this-autho... 🏷️ #MonsterRomance #booksky #IndieRomance

Silicon Valley keeps building AI tools for creators while creators can't get basic health insurance or fair payment processing. So here are 13 boring solutions that actually would help. Spoiler: none involve ChatGPT wrappers. Link here 👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/dear-silic...

Writing prompt: Sketch out a TikTok script that becomes increasingly unhinged for a female anti-hero or villain in upper-middle class suburbia.

One of my favorite write-in answers so far in this survey is someone admitting confusion that they landed on my mailing list, but they would describe my work as “interesting.” I fell into a fit of cackles at that. monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/youre-invi...

If you haven't checked it out, I decided to do something different than the usual Monster Romance 101 list and built a choose-your-own-adventure TBR list builder. Check out my little experiment here 👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/choose-you...

My face is not a giant secret, but I really don't want to make up my face and office for video. So just a FYI, I am shopping for PNGtubing avatars. Glad to converse with artists who are in the monster romance community and would like to flex their skills even if they have never done this before.

I am trying a different kind of recommended reading list on my Substack this week. I am calling it a "choose-your-own-TBR.” I have over 20 books on there, and which ones you get will depend on the journey you choose…

Writing prompt: come up with a dark Romance plot featuring a cyberpunk clown MMC who helps the FMC undermine their authoritarian government

If y'all were to read a report on Romance book market trends, what source besides Amazon's best sellers would interest you? (asking for a data-crazy friend) Looking at…..Kobo, Barnes and Noble, New York Times Bestseller List, Bookshop.org

Our favorite steamy romance authors don’t just disappear from platforms. They are systematically banned by payment processors who’ve become the internet’s most powerful censors. Newsletter subscribers have already been subjected to my rant here 👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/why-your-f...

This is my family room window here in the Midwest. It is absolutely covered with dew from the corn sweat. Maybe I’m too exposed to sentient object romance, but this looks like the aftermath of…something.

I need it 😭This would be awesome to knit along with an audiobook with cryptids 🖤 pacificknitco.com/products/doo...

I am ticked off and frustrated (but not surprised) by itch.io’s new policy changes. And for what? It isn’t for the customers. It isn’t for a free market. No one but a small group of neo-puritans with too much money and time are manipulating our global consumer infrastructure.

🔥 "HURT/COMFORT. It is my crack, it is my cocaine, it is LIFE." Miranda Sapphire knows what she's about and we are HERE for this energy! 😂 Plus she writes characters who "look scary but wind up squishy and sweet as hell" Full interview 👉monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/monster-me...

The one where I go on about how Victoria Aveline is going on my list of recs for genre newcomers 👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/i-know-wha...

1) I like Axios’s short form reporting on USA politics and economics, and 2) this is about ChatGPT’s CEO swinging around DC on a lobby quest to get the feds to give him more money so the USA can “win” the AI race. But what does winning look like? www.axios.com/2025/07/21/s...

Feeling the strong ADHD urge to take yoga teacher training after attending my spouse’s practicum.

“Writing and art, in many ways, is why I am still here.” 🖤 Meet YD La Mar, the author who turned survival into storytelling and is now bringing marginalized voices to monster romance. Read the full interview on Monster Romance Reviews 👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/monster-me...

Did I set out to make a trope-based personality quiz using just Lyonne Riley books as the book recs for them? No. Do I regret that in any way? Hell, no‼️ Take the quiz here and share your favorite trope with pride 👉 monsterromancereviews.substack.com/p/which-mons...

Summerween > Christmas In July

I have been finishing up a fun trope assignment quiz for my Substack readers, and while thinking of a good book rec for every trope, I realized most of them are by Lyonne Riley. So naturally, all my book recs for this quiz are now by Riley 😆

My ride or die man

I wish my fellow Americans the best Fourth of July available to you 🇺🇸

A Bafta-winning artist with 56k followers on here speaks of how hard it is make a living. At one point I had a real-life readership (or in publications with) of over 8 million. Physical & mental burnout means 10 years later, I earn about £140 a month on patreon & am 5 weeks away from homelessness.

The Character.ai stuff is an affront to authors, especially when they don't get paid for that IP. But also, I'm worried about the pseudo-relationships people are in danger of. Since spring, the tech world has observed rising AI cult behavior and full psychotic breaks from reality among some users.