I reread Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1) by T. Kingfisher

Beautiful song: 🎵 These arms of mine ... 🎵 Microsoft Word: 'My arms' #writers #books #editors #authors #Romancelandia

If you see a hot dude and make inappropriate comments but nobody hears you, were you really a creep? #Romancelandia

Meet Cathy Hannabach (she/her), our new mentorship coordinator! She is the founder/CEO of Ideas on Fire. Stay tuned! Our new program includes group mentoring (Office Hours) and individual mentorship, launching soon with Office Hours in December. #LGBTQEditors #DiversityInPublishing #AmEditing

Join me, Sarah Calfee, for a ninety-minute romance novel-writing workshop, using tips and tricks from Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice. Six spots available for December! It's free! Check it out at www.threelittlewordsediting.com/storycraftin... #Romancelandia #authors #writers #editors #books

If you're doing NaNoWriMo, here is the #1 advice I can give you: Read Story Genius by Lisa Cron. Use it as a workbook to plot your story, or at least the character arc and major beats. You'll have more momentum, a better chance of finishing, and less Blank Page Terror.

Are you working on a NaNoWriMo wip? Threelittlewordsediting.com is offering a FREE romance novel writing workshop! Get awesome writing strategies from Pride and Prejudice - my fave book on the planet! :) #Romancelandia #authors #writers #books #queerbooks

This was a drunk delete when I was feeling particularly irate and now I kinda regret the choice but also uncertain if I will do anything about it. :(

@aijiang.bsky.social I just read We Are a Little Hotel in @interzone.press, laughed and passed it straight to my wife @sacalfee.bsky.social. I loved this one.

I've also created a feed for editors and editing that casts a wide net. To be included, use a hashtag starting with #editor (such as #editor, #editors, or #editorial), starting with #BookEdit (such as #BookEditor or #BookEditing), #AmEditing, #Editing, or #Edibuddies. bsky.app/profile/did:...

KJ Charles's Doomsday series is awesome! The setting is nearly a character of its own. There is adventure, mystery, dastardly villains, romance heros with so much chemistry together, fun and interesting characters, complex themes. Book 2 kept me up till midnight to finish. #Romancelandia #queerbooks

Get a great deal on my contemporary spin on PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, ALL MONTH LONG! #romancelandia www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08K...

I deleted my X account today. I feel ... a bit angry. Why did some asshole billionaire have to wreck something that was so good. No perfect but really good.

#Romancelandia ❤️I think I must have a thing for the brooding, overthinking hero as I kind of fell for Michael :) My review of The Shot by KW Thomas @kiathomasedits.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

How does my brain believe simultaneously that rugby practice is from 10am to 11am but also that I must leave with the boys for rugby practice at 10am?! Gentle reader, we did not make it to rugby practice.

The correct answer is obviously B. What do you choose? A. All books are free. B. All book are awesome. C. Your fave character comes to life. D. You get paid to read. Everyone on FB chose D from this series. What 😳?! #Romancelandia #books #writing #authors #editors

Most of the sapphic novels I review have sex, some super hot. I’d like to recommend (among others) Jaime Clevenger, Leigh Hays, Milena McKay, Rachel Lacey (especially her indie books), Fiona Riley… I haven’t read JJ Arias yet but I hear she should be on the list. For more recs, see my blog

Facebook and Instagram algorithms have decided that all I want to see is book related media. I don't hate it. #Romancelandia #authors #readers

Today's catch-up on recorded sessions from #CIEP2023 was @sacalfee.bsky.social's utterly brilliant workshop on 'Writing awesome developmental fiction editing reports' – an open, honest, informative, entertaining and encouraging look at both failure and success in developmental editing. 1/4

Give me all your best movie recs. I have experienced a death in the family and I need distraction. Make me laugh. Make me cry Send me on an adventure. #Romancelandia #books #authors #editors #writers

I've lived outside the USA for twelve years, and I was really pleased to see the large romance section at Barns & Noble in Sterling Heights, MI. Is that a norm these days, #Romancelandia?

Hi everyone! I'm an editor for Harlequin & Carina Press/Carina Adores. Right now, I'm really interested in acquiring romantasy/fantasy romance, sports romance, and contemporary romance with big themes/big feelings. Also looking for dark/taboo! #romancelandia #writingcommunity #amwriting #amquerying

Tragedy has occurred and my number one coping strategy is stories: reading books during the day, listening to audio books at night, watching movies in the evening. #romancelandia #books #reading #editors #authors #writing

Dangers of walking past book stores at airports #Romancelandia #Books #authors #Editors #ciep2023

Good bye #ciep2023! What an great venue! Amazing talks! The workshop on writing awesome fiction editorial reports was particularly interesting. That speaker! Clever! Hilarious! :) Insightful! Thanks to everyone who organised and volunteered. Brilliant. See you at ciep2024!

I now have proof that Amy Schneider is my best friend! #ciep2023

Amy Schneider sat at my table for the gala dinner and she sent me a FB friend request after. That means where besties, right?? Fangirl 4 eva! Don't tell her how secretly geeking out I am. #ciep2023

Sarah Calfee"s how to write awesome fiction editorial reports! Standing ovations! Tears did occur! Many a clappings! #Ciep2023

Buying books is not a zero sum game. If I like the sound of a book and there are two or three - I end up purchasing all of them. Its not like choosing one house over another. Just write good stories and be friends with other authors. (However I may avoid your books if you are a jerk.)

I have reverted to wanting to read novels in physical book form these days. No screens, no batteries, no distractions. Just pages and text. #Booksky #Authors #Romancelandia #Editors

The US Copyright Office is seeking comment on AI as it affects writers and other artists! If multibillion-dollar corporations want to use YOUR labor and skill to benefit their shareholders, you probably have an opinion about that! Comment here (link at bottom): www.copyright.gov/policy/artif...

Copyright. If someone owned a house and their kids had to give it up after a certain amount of time so everyone else could use it, there’d be uproar. And yet physical property is a limited resource that has to be shared. But it’s assumed there has to be a time limit to IP people *don’t have to use*.

I am doing a workshop for the 2023 CIEP conference on editorial reports and I'm firmly convinced of two facts: it'll awesome and illuminating and I'll be exposed as the fraud I truly am. Welcome to Sarah Brain. #Editors #Books #Romancelandia #Reading #Writers

Welcome @kharmakelley.bsky.social to Blue Sky! #Romancelandia

There is just £1800 to go. On Rivers Solomon's Go Fund Me. They need £15k to stay in the UK with their family: please RT and please throw something in the pot. I can't afford to match funds but if we can make it to £14900 I'll top up for the last £100. www.gofundme.com/f/immigratio...

Naiomi Novik! My god! I love all her books so much. I keep returning to the Temeraire series as a massive comfort read. ❤❤❤❤❤

KJ is an autobuy for me. Her books are compelling, emotional, and full of adventure and mystery. How dare she be so awesome?!

Well, time for my first thread here on BlueSky, and I'm pissed off. I've been catching up on the situation with F&SF and Sheree Thomas. I'm slow because I'm not on FB anymore, where apparently the bulk of the convo is happening, and I'm barely on Twitter. Anyway.

You are looking at a freshly minted Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editors and Proofreaders. 🥳

I firmly believe Christmas is six months away. The truth gives me heart palpitations.

Laundry is a melancholy fact. And just think how bad it was before the machines.

Electric micromobility helps level the playing field for more demographics than we often realize, including women, the elderly, and people with disabilities. For any future to include more equitable transport, it should be a key part of the conversation.

I want my boys to watch romantic movies at a young age and imprint on healthy romantic relationships and consensual touching, kissing, sex, all genders, and not be embarrassed about a basic human need.

#Romancelandia: if you love STEM, enemies to lovers, Pride and Prejudice Easter eggs, funny secondary characters, excellent plotting and pacing, adorable and amusing banter, an HEA that is emotionally satisfying - read this book immediately. I'm off to find and read Ali Hazelwood's backlist.

Was just thinking about one of my favorite Twitter threads that's of course been deleted, and I guess I'll do my best to get it here: If you're a trad pub author who's actively open to doing more blurbing, could you reply with what kind of book(s) you're looking for?

cop: is this your chocolate factory? willy wonka: why do you ask? cop: we've received reports of maimed children and slave labor wonka: that 8 year old owns it now

Due to #Romancelandia I was obligated to purchase this amazing octopus. 🥰😍🤩

Family sitcom *Overweight, stupid, cruel husband *Beautiful thin wife, slight doormat, runs around fixing stuff husband breaks *Sexy teenage daughter - usually boy crazy, sometimes smart *Stupid brother - show frequently focuses on son/father relationship