The Candy Hearts LGBTQ+ charity anthology is back! 21 low-angst stories set at Valentine’s Day.This year, each story involves a “meet-ugly” or bad first impression. What’s more satisfying than a happily ever after that started on the wrong foot? Coming Jan. 30. Preorder: CandyHeartsAnthology.com

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On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the lives of transgender and nonbinary people lost to violence, and must work toward a future where no one's life is taken simply for being who they are.

Game Winner is live!🏒😍 A low-angst hockey romance between a quirky goalie who is averse to change, a history-loving drummer trying to keep his band together, and a shy forward looking for a place to belong. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... #mmromance #booksky

Game Winner will be here on Nov. 12th! A low-angst MMM romance with a quirky hockey goalie, a cinnamon roll rock band drummer, and a shy hockey forward. Can love score a hat trick when three hearts are in play? Amazon | KU: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... #mmromance #LGBTromance #hockeyromance

Celebrated spooky season, aka the most wonderful time of the year, with a Ghosts of the Boardwalk tour and a tour of haunted objects at the Paranormal Museum. 100% awesome. 🎃 👻 And, the beach! 🖤

I got a pretty good pic of Independence Hall today. No Kings Philly.

Thinking of this tonight. Worth watching to the end.

HAPPY NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny": Listen for dangerous words.

8. Everything bad that happens is filtered through the lens of who they hate: Muslims, immigrants, trans people. But when the shooter fits the most common profile—cis men—the script changes. Concern only stretches as far as the color of the shooter’s skin, their religion, their gender identity.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Learning in school is not enough. You must continue to teach yourself throughout your life. Study history, read myths, memorize poems, get acquainted with the greatest philosophers & writers. In an age when tech is cooking many brains, we need an army of autodidacts.

We need to call out when hateful people spout hateful things, and that is especially true in cases of right-wingers spewing such vileness at a marginalized community. Transgender people deserve to live as their authentic selves. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

Two innocent children are dead and the far right are racing to use it as pretext to further eradicate trans people. This mass shooting had nothing to do with the shooter being trans and everything to do with them being radicalized online by a nihilistic murder cult that worships mass shooters.

A video about the Nineteenth Amendment.

The Love and Rugby series will be leaving Kindle Unlimited on August 23rd! 🏉❤️ These MM romance stories are low to medium angst, high heat, and full of found family and friendships, following an inclusive rec league rugby team. www.susanscottshelley.com/loveandrugby #mmromance #lgtbromance

Game Winner, a MMM hockey romance between a quirky hockey goalie, a cinnamon roll drummer, and a shy hockey forward, is part of the multi-author The Games We Play minor league hockey series. Coming Nov. 12th. Pre-order: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... #HockeyRomance #MMRomance #SportsRomance

With news that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down due to Trump’s meddling, it’s worth watching Mr. Rogers testifying to the Senate about the real value of what we’ve all lost.

​Looking for your next romance series to binge? Check out Love in Maplewood! A low-angst, small-town series with ten standalone queer romances featuring different seasonal festivals. ​Check out the series: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F37Q13B... #booksky #kindleunlimited

Today is Paperback Book Day, and you could win one of more than 30 paperback prizes! Head to tinyurl.com/PBD2025-st to enter, then follow me, and other participating authors on social media, and that’s it! *contest open internationally, books may be signed or unsigned

July 25, 2025

"Do not get lost in a sea of despair,” Lewis tweeted almost exactly a year before his death. “Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way.”

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

Something Cryptid This Way Comes is here! - best friends in love - spooky season - tricks & treats - cryptid sightings - halloween - matchmaking family - so many plaid shirts - pets in costumes Amazon | KU | paperback: books2read.com/u/3RglQD #mmromance #booksky

The Great Maple Mistake, by @beckgreyauthor.bsky.social, is available now! In this LGBTQ romance, a small-town photographer who’s given up on love meets a smoking hot firefighter with a smile to melt hearts. Try as they might, some flames are impossible to resist. readerlinks.com/l/4787880

A video about the Declaration of Independence. I'm proud of this one.

I’m thrilled to share that Candy Hearts, volume 2, raised $11,720 for RainbowRailroad! When combined with the royalties earned for volume 1 last year, Candy Hearts has raised​ nearly $17,000 for charities working to benefit queer people! I so love being a part of this project!

Another Maplewood release is here! Scoop Me Up, by Riley Long, a single dad, ice cream flavor competition, summertime romance. UBL: books2read.com/ScoopMeUp

While bombing Iran is bad for Trump’s poll numbers, starting a war and creating chaos is good for Trump as an authoritarian. Authoritarians exploit chaos to claim emergency powers, deploy the military domestically, and undermine free and fair elections. These attacks must be viewed from this lens.

Struck is a low-angst MM romance with a tangled web of friendships, matchmaking rugby players, and an orchestrated meet up that just might be serendipity in disguise.​ And you can read it in Love is All: Volume 8! Available in ebook and paperback: books2read.com/LIAV8 #mmromance #lgbtromance

Another Maplewood book is here! Pride By the Book, by Jeff Adams, delivers an enemies-to-lovers, small-town romance where second chances lead to steamy encounters, heartfelt connections, and the transformative power of being truly seen by another person. UBL: buy.bookfunnel.com/jy7cmub9mo

Another Love in Maplewood book is here! Can You Feel the Maple Tonight is a low-angst, small town contemporary MM romance with an age gap, a single parent, musical interludes, something strange in the woods, a giant tortoise, hats for every occasion, and a murder chicken. readerlinks.com/l/4718721

Something Cryptid This Way Comes will be here in a month! Low-angst MM romance with matchmaking, tricks & treats, cute dogs, so many plaid shirts, stories as a form of wooing, a love forged from friendship, and cryptids. Pre-order: books2read.com/u/3RglQD #mmromance #gayromance #queerromance

It's Friday, and that means another Maplewood release! Bee-tween the Music by @chantalmer.bsky.social is a low-angst, small town, contemporary MM romance with instant attraction, a sexy violinist, a cello-playing beekeeper, and a town of quirky neighbors. Buy the book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F31Q485Y

Love is All is here! Volume 8 of the beloved charity romance anthology is back with fifteen fabulous tales to celebrate Pride and celebrate happily-ever-after in every corner of the rainbow. Grab it now! www.books2read.com/LIAV8

Cover reveal for Love is All: Volume 8! The annual charity anthology celebrating queer romance returns on June 3rd with fifteen brand new stories. Pre-order: www.books2read.com/LIAV8

Our final Love in Maplewood cover reveal, Don’t Clause a Scene by Lee Blair, available July 18. An introvert & extrovert finding a groove, so many secrets, and a well-meaning town that cares maybe a little too much. Pre-order: geni.us/mw-dcas Cover: Morningstar Ashley Designs

Ready for another Love in Maplewood cover reveal? Mine is today! Something Cryptid This Way Comes, with autumn leaves changing color, cryptid lore, and Halloween, this friends to lovers romance is available on July 11th. Pre-order: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... Cover: Morningstar Ashley Designs

It's time for our eighth Love in Maplewood cover reveal! If you love stories where characters click from the first moment they meet—this book is for you. The Great Maple Mistake by Beck Grey is available July 4. Pre-order: readerlinks.com/l/4721383 Cover: Morningstar Ashley Designs

Ready to see some of your favorite authors and meet new ones? Join us on June 14th at Pride LitCon in Richmond, VA, where you’ll be able to meet FIFTY authors of LGBT stories! Get your tickets at www.pridelitcon.com. #pridelitcon #queerbooks #romancebooks #mmromance #ffromance

This cover for Love in Maplewood book seven makes it feel like summer is already here. Combine some sun, a small town, and an ice cream festival, and you’ve got Scoop Me Up by Riley Long, which releases June 27. Pre-order: a.co/d/7pasA3j Cover: Morningstar Ashley Designs

A new Love in Maplewood cover reveal! Book six delivers three queer romance favorites: hockey, Pride, and libraries. Pride by the Book by Jeff Adams is available on June 20. Pre-order: books2read.com/PrideByTheBook Cover: Morningstar Ashley Designs

It’s time for another cover reveal for the Love in Maplewood series! Book five is a friends-with-benefits romance between a rockstar and a single dad. Can You Feel the Maple Tonight by Bix Barrow releases June 13! Pre-order: readerlinks.com/l/4718721 Cover: Morningstar Ashley Designs

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