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I love to read and write about Iowa.
i got so mad about this article that i blogged about it aftermath.site/ai-romance-n...
10.02.2026 20:37 — 👍 717 🔁 184 💬 4 📌 0
I use the free option of Notion to track my books. Here are some template examples...
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Great cover. Congratulations 🎉
07.01.2026 02:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 02026 Reading Challenge
Private Detectives in Fiction My current manuscript features a female private investigator trying to uncover who—or what—is behind a string of car vandalisms at a country club in 1937 Des Moines, Iowa. Querying my latest novel has prompted me to reflect on the legacy of…
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13.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 39 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1
Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
20.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 11834 🔁 3290 💬 209 📌 346
Now available in audio! Haven, Sanctuary and Harbor by Rebekah Weatherspoon Three romances with shirtless buff guys on the cover, standing in front of the mountains, in front of a farm and in front of the ocean. All three books have plus size black heroines and all three books feature BDSM elements. Haven - he saves her from serial killers. Months later they reunite and do the nasty instead of going to therapy. Sanctuary - She saves herself from a professional hit and ends up hidding at his farm. They do the nasty Harbor is a polyam story with three black folks. Their cheating partners are killed and they try to find meaning in it all. The meaning involves a threesome on the beach. Now available in audio! Haven, Sanctuary and Harbor by Rebekah Weatherspoon Three romances with shirtless buff guys on the cover, standing in front of the mountains, in front of a farm and in front of the ocean. All three books have plus size black heroines and all three books feature BDSM elements.
Small town romantic suspense with a BDSM chaser. Check out my Beards & Bondage trilogy today!
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One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.
16.09.2025 19:31 — 👍 11141 🔁 3134 💬 120 📌 129
4 members of Jem and the Holograms from left to right: Aja, Jem, Kimber, Shana. Aja and Shana are playing guitar. Kimber is playing keytar, and Jem is singing into microphone. Aja has blue hair and wears a pink shirt and purple miniskirt. Jem has pink hair and wears a pink minidress with fringes belt. Kimber has red hair and wears blue capris, white blazer, and pink blouse underneath with cuffs that peek through end of sleeves. Shana has purple Afro and wears purple dress with silver blazer on top. The background is yellow, orange, purple color gradient. Jem logo is in bottom left corner.
Last semester, I had the opportunity to take a class on costume design in fantasy, sci-fi, and supernatural film and television. And for my final project, I chose to analyze the costumes in Jem and The Holograms! ✨
27.06.2025 16:16 — 👍 2491 🔁 591 💬 79 📌 126During my panel yesterday I meant to add this advice. "Don't let someone else's success make you feel less. They're on their journey. You're on yours." Beverly Jenkins.
02.06.2025 23:00 — 👍 134 🔁 40 💬 4 📌 3When it comes to genre expectations, I agree. Most romances would make incredibly disappointing porn!
When it comes to having a target on your back... there is no distinction.
Writing is hard. Publishing is worse. This industry will grind you up in ways you cannot predict, partly because the grindstone changes shape every decade or so for reasons of money and attention.
But publishing is not the reason why we do this. It’s the apparatus, but it’s not the core.
Hey this auction has some INCREDIBLE items to benefit the Trans Law Center--flash fiction written for you by some amazing names! signed books from the best writers in the business! Chats with super cool authors!
26.03.2025 13:57 — 👍 109 🔁 81 💬 1 📌 1Emotional reactions I want to have while writing/reading certain romance tropes:
Second chance → Destroy me or it didn’t happen.
Enemies to Lovers → I need to laugh out loud at least twice.
Friends to Lovers → I want to release the breath I didn’t know I was holding.
Forbidden Love → Make me sweat.
You’ve been patient, little mouse.
You deserve a reward, don’t you think?
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Happy Birthday to the Queen of Historical Romance, @authormsbev.bsky.social ! 🎉Your guidance and wisdom continue to inspire me. May your day be filled with all the joy, love, and happiness, 🥰 #birthdaycelebration #BVM
15.02.2025 14:20 — 👍 82 🔁 18 💬 5 📌 3Lynch taught us that art can be brutal about truth without being brutal to people, both creators and audience, and that’s a particularly poignant reminder at this moment.
16.01.2025 23:41 — 👍 108 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 0A much needed list!
07.01.2025 21:41 — 👍 76 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 0Gorgeous art work! ❤️
03.01.2025 01:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 02025 Reading Challenge
I have three out of the ten in my collection, the rest I'll have to either interlibrary loan or purchase. I like to start each year with a reading goal. For example, last year I focused on historical mysteries published within the last five years to get me in the mood for…
I'm proud to run an independent website but I am also a paying subscriber to several traditional Iowa newspapers including the Des Moines Register, Cedar Rapids @thegazette.com, and Storm Lake Times Pilot @thestormlaketimes.bsky.social.
We need more local journalism, not less.
This is why I tell self-pub authors to set
library purchase prices as low as the system will let you — it’s better than buying ads and one of the few ways indie authors can outcompete big publishers!
Lucy wants Santa to know she was "nice" this year.
23.12.2024 01:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great book. Getting to watch the movie. Glad they get the story out. Maybe my local museum will get some notice from the movie too.
www.fortdesmoinesmuseum.com/womens-army-...
Giving a shout out to my local museum before I watch The Six Triple Eight on Netflix.
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Currently wading through her memoir, Child Star. Definitely worth a read if you enjoy her movies.
20.12.2024 01:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Members of Sex & the Supper Club cordially invite you to a sneak previewof intimacies best shared among friends. When a gang of twentysomething women get together, men are always on the menu! Stripping school? Exhibitionism? Fetishes? All sexy, all topics for Sabrina Pantolini's uncensored sex TV series. True Sex explores wild secret sensual desires and will be her masterpiece. Friends at the club agree that covering voyeurism, lap-dance lessons and X-rated toys-the more offbeat the better-will rock everyone's world. Including her own. Stef Costas is Sabrina's most dangerous decision yet. Bringing him on board as director for the no-holds-barred project is like throwing gasoline on a fire. Her once-sizzling affair with the enigmatic hunk burned them both. Badly. Now their relationship is strictly business-unless, of course, the scorcher they're filming turns into their reality, and the go-for-it producer goes for it, again....
let me merge the two dumbest conversations currently happening in romance social media:
1) category romance is bad
2) there's too much sex in romance these days
by showing you the book description from his harlequin blaze from TWENTY YEARS AGO.
