Ashley Marchand

There's some magic in this post, it went straight to all my must-read receptors. Sold!

🐉🌈📚 LGBTQ+ books released on June 11, 2025.

🔗 Find them here: bit.ly/m/QBR

Happy reading, y'all! 🖤✌🏼

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🐉🌈📚 LGBTQ+ audiobooks released on June 10, 2025.

🔗 Find them here: bit.ly/m/QBR

Happy listening, y'all! 🖤🎧✌🏼

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🐉🌈📚 LGBTQ+ books released on June 10, 2025.

🔗 Find them here: bit.ly/m/QBR

Happy reading, y'all! 🖤✌🏼

#queerbookreviews #sapphicromance #queerromance #mmromance #mmromancebooks #lgbtbooks #mmbooksky #sapphicbooksky #queerbooksky #readqueerallyear #booksky #romancelandia

It's always something 😅

Me, 5/28: I have a climax for my book now! I love it. It’s perfect for all the characters. I nailed it.

Me, 6/5: Ugh, that climax won’ work. It’s unrealistic and out of character. What was I thinking? WAS I thinking?

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My favorite advice when I'm stuck in the first-draft self-doubt swamp is from my favorite fantasy author, Terry Pratchett.
"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."

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I have a suggested itinerary for the sections of my book, which I'm superstitiously not calling an outline.
Junior High/cotillion, High School/debutante, College/sorority, Adulting/society balls
*shhh don't tell it it's an outline*
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When I was young, queer romance novels were unheard-of.
It's been profound and moving to watch them appear, by indie and tradpub writers, in bookshops and bestseller lists.
I'm humbled and grateful to join them with my own stories of women loving women happily ever after.
#queerwriters #queerromance

594 words later: Saturday kicks a field goal for the extra point.

Does gray-day demotivation meet its match in Saturday's Saturday-ness?
With no new words in my WIP today, there's a flag on the play and the officials are ruling on a foul call.
💡 My own metaphor inspired a high school football scene in my WIP.

Saturday wins!

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I have the shivers and I like it.

That's a wonderful vote of confidence, thank you!

And then I woke up and I didn't want to write.

And then I wrote.

I also drank most of a six-pack of root beer before noon, so I'm not holding myself up as a shining example.

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I'm sensing a theme with my MCs.
Prologue:
The 6-year-old MCs get each other in trouble for tussling at a garden party.
Ch. 1:
The 13-year-old MCs get each other in trouble for texting in class.
Can't wait to see how they get each other in trouble in ch. 2!
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Me, 11 pm yesterday: I'll go to bed early and get a good night's sleep so I can focus on writing.

Car alarm, 2 to 8 am: No, you won't sleep.

Jackhammer, 9 am to present: No, you won't focus.

Me, 1 pm: I'll call you out on Bluesky. THEN write!

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I know I typed "does A. have a sister?" after writing nearly a page of notes on college, family, and sorority pledges.
I KNOW it.
But now a whole-project find doesn't have any results for "sister," "sorority," or "pledge."
Did I delete it? Dream it? 😱

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It's exactly the right amount of nerdy.

I think that may only be unpopular with people who don't read romance.
The real world is hard enough without reading fiction about it.
Let me have my healthy relationships with happy endings!

Did I just notice the repeated words?
Yes, I just noticed the repeated words.
I must need more coffee.

Whole mood: My “I turn coffee into books” mousepad has coffee stains ☕️😂
I love these slogans and deskspace merch, they put me in a good writing mood mood.
Now let's see if the coffee does what the mousepad says!
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I'll tag myself as the ghost in the Lengthy Prologue line.

...I see what you did there 😅

Eager to read about how they fell in love because of Douglas fir tree growth rates.

Relatable.
Give a character study a cookie, and next thing you know, you have 70K words and a 4-book planned series.

I didn't waste time making this in Canva.
I made it in Imgflip. 😇
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The works of Herman Melville *are* gay romantic dramas.

Hello! So happy to see posts like this.
My current WIP is a WLW romance with slow-burn childhood friends to lovers, "she's pining, she's oblivious," and misadventures in sapphic fake dating. Two young lesbians in the US South chafe at their crinolines and queer it up from the inside.

No excuse needed to watch more Ghibli movies!

I'm hooked by the cover!