Promo graphic for Chicago Spring Fling - Trick your brain, the very best way to self-edit. From Julia Ganis aka JuliaEdits
Taking a break from the chaos: 1 thing #Romancelandia lost with the implosion of RWA was a yearly nat'l conference devoted to the craft of writing & pubbing. @chicagonorthrw.bsky.social are picking up the slack with their April conf—I'll be there!
chicagonorthromancewriters.com/spring-fling
I mean, this sounds self-serving but I'm stating this as a person who reads romance, not only as a person who edits romance: YOUR INDIEPUB BOOK NEEDS TO BE EDITED. And, NO, HAVING YOUR SMART FRIEND READ IT DOESN'T COUNT.
24.02.2026 19:09 — 👍 114 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 6
A poem by Weyodi OldBear: The Emperor In his high heels And ermine robes Presiding over his army of rats Can wave his sceptre All he likes But still the winds howl And the waters rise And still we, his enemies, Dance our outlawed dances And sing our outlawed songs Resistance at the root of all joy
This @weyodi.bsky.social poem is constantly on my mind, & I focus on the inverse of the final line: our joy is a valid form of resistance. Nurture your joy, please, however that looks to you. Make art or look at art or do whatever can add a drop of joy into the world, especially now.
23.02.2026 18:44 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Fire Island has won the 2026 #RomComBracket!!! Please hold for watch party details…
22.02.2026 21:32 — 👍 57 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 9Help out this Black and Latina Minneapolis Girl Scout troop who can’t safely sell cookies out and about because of ICE!!
21.02.2026 21:26 — 👍 203 🔁 179 💬 3 📌 1Giving out whistles by stocking them in my Little Free Library has done so much to help me remember that my family is not alone in this, and my neighborhood is not alone. We are all in this together.
21.02.2026 05:10 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks - I got my bit done and I hope you did too.
20.02.2026 23:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ok I'll be editing.
20.02.2026 21:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Matchups from this round can be found in the thread below.
My chaotic loves, I'm quite surprised with what you've done here. This round contains only 2 movies not from the 21st century. That's quite shocking, but let's see what happens after this round. I give you The Fraught 8... #RomComBracket
19.02.2026 20:59 — 👍 15 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 7Shout out to @bestfriendsanimals.bsky.social, who helped me acquire my very own personal orange king!
18.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm madly in love with all these "I forced that stray cat to come inside because of the harsh winter" posts. We adopted this absolutely un-adoptable menace a while back. It took a bit of work—yes, there were bites and plenty of scratches—but now this madman sleeps on my pillow. 😭
18.02.2026 16:57 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0My stepdad was the kind of man who knew it all and nobody could change his mind about anything. A few years ago he died of a UTI because he didn't want to take antibiotics. So yes, people just died from everything and you can still do it today if you're a dumbshit.
18.02.2026 04:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Goodreads is making a DNF shelf? too little, too late…
Join Pagebound instead—an indie, anti-AI, women & poc-owned social book tracker NOT benefiting a billionaire and already far more featureful 💙📚
We love to see it.
17.02.2026 17:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you're a #Romance author & are interested in participating in virtual or in-person events for #BookstoreRomanceDay, you can sign up via this form. I use the responses to help choose authors when setting up virtual programming & also share it with bookstores.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Look, if there’s one lesson we should’ve learned by now, it’s don’t doubt @courtneymilan.com!
16.02.2026 23:23 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Deep breaths, diving into editing a #Romancelandia manuscript, shouting against tyranny in my spare time—here's to life in these United States.
16.02.2026 17:28 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(Whoops not sweating, swearing!)
16.02.2026 03:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's 7:46 over here and I sweat to god I'm on my way into the bedroom.
16.02.2026 03:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hello my chaos babies. Welcome back to 2026 #RomComBracket! The last two days we've eased into this and have made some suprising and not so surprising choices, but moving forward, things are going to start getting a little more cutthroat around here. Let's get started #RomComBracket
16.02.2026 03:26 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 3
NO NEW STEPS!
(Man, I need someone to make a gif of that slide he does in the paso doble!)
A little bit of time left on yesterday’s polls!
15.02.2026 16:17 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0🌹🌹🌹 to you on this special day. Thank you for the gift you've given me—so many happy hours of reading!
15.02.2026 19:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Survey alert!
Dear Romancelandia: I’m doing a research study on podcasts about romance fiction and readership engagement!
If you listen to/watch any podcasts about romance fiction, can you please complete this voluntary and anonymous survey? Thank you!
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Happy Valentine's Day, Romancelandia. Keep offering the world love in all its forms and identities. And don't forget to love on yourself.
14.02.2026 14:23 — 👍 106 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 0We met when I was the director’s assistant on cats and dogs. It was a messy experience, as so many film shoots are, but I’m so grateful it brought her into my life. She was an amazing woman.
14.02.2026 05:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The screenwriter was my best friend, Audrey Wells. She also directed and wrote the screenplay of Under the Tuscan Sun. She died of ovarian cancer way too early, and when I hear people recalling her work, it fills me with so much joy. I’m so glad this crossed my path this evening.
14.02.2026 05:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I thought I was the only person that despises that movie!
14.02.2026 05:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0More voting here!
14.02.2026 04:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A tree with pink flowers against a blue sky
Just another ho-hum L.A. day.
13.02.2026 23:04 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0