Christina Joy

Every Friday on IG, I participate in #fridayspark and here's this week's writing prompt for "escape": a soft, playful moment for our secret lovers, post-assignation.
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Part 2 of my shameless self-promotion this morning, lol.
Artist is @rebornaophia.bsky.social

Good morning! I'm gonna try to do better with posting here. You can get my full backlog of writing snippets, art, and rambling writer thoughts on IG:
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AND I'm serializing my novel on Substack: joyperegrine.substack.com
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No thrones, no crowns, no kings.
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I finally did it. I got my act together and launched my writing pages. Now I have no excuses to not crawl to the finish line with these books, lol. Please give my IG some love:
instagram.com/joyperegrinewrites/

Artist credit for my MCs, please give them some love too: instagram.com/rebornaophia/

Been seeing a lot of new (and in most cases, marginalized) writers say they feel bad promoting their work in the midst of everything else that is going on.

Please shout about your work because it will only get harder and harder for it to be seen and your voice is needed more than ever.

I’ve been seeing more and more of these kind of comments inside our fandom! We don’t have to agree on the books that we like but lets stop shaming others for the books they like. Also, follow me on t... TikTok video by Cosmere Junkie

This commentary from Brandon Sanderson made me happy. Romance and romantasy writers have felt big pain points lately within the reader/writer community. We all deserve to read/write what we love, to have that soft moment of self-care and escapism into beautiful places.
www.tiktok.com/@cosmere_jun...

Listen. If your romance novel has conversations about consent and contraception happening between the main characters, AMAZING. I don't care if it's a magical fantasy setting or it's the year 1500 or they're fairies or whatever. Let's normalize these two topics in spicy books, please!

What are you reading right now?

A garden sculpture of two young children embracing, covered in snow.

"Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house in the deep bosom of the ocean buried." -Richard III, William Shakespeare

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

OMG, I couldn't agree more. Massive disappointment.

Me all damn week. 😅