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2026-01-13 17:38:40 UTC

#Romancelandia @npub1q60…kp90 #HeatedRivalryShow
Breaking my own "do not share The Guardian articles" (IFKYK), to share a very good take on "Heated Rivalry" and m/m in general.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/13/why-do-women-like-heated-rivalry

2025-12-18 22:39:43 UTC

@npub1q60…kp90 #Writing #Publishing #Translators #PSA
Some publishers are delegating translation of your work to GenAI/LLMs, which a) puts humans translators out of work, and b) ensures you'll lose readers, because GenAI/LLM translation is basically Google translate: no context word for word translation.
So you need to contact your publisher about this AND make sure you future contract include a clause demanding human translators for the FULL job--not just "fixing" slop.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/02/03/how-translation-works-book-title-edition/
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2025-11-24 20:26:40 UTC

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It bears repeating: in the United States, there is no such thing as a "department of war".
There is a (bloated, corrupt, immense) Department of Defense, and we cannot lose sight of the shift the fuckers in this administration are trying to force on the stated principles that founded this country.
#USPolitics #Fascism #FederalViolence #MarkKelly
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2025-11-21 15:27:40 UTC

Not only have Trump and Hegseth murdered over 80 in the Caribbean in the last few weeks, but the U.S. sanctioning ICC judges and prosecutors for doing their job on Israel and issuing warrants for Netanyahu and his former minister of defense, are destroying those officials' lives, and essentially, holding the world hostage.
Here's the Le Monde interview in full (archived non-paywall version):
https://archive.ph/d8NmT#selection-1899.56-1899.57
#InternationalCriminalCourt #USPolitics
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2025-11-19 21:07:39 UTC

This is HUGE: serving U.S. Senators and Representatives, all former military and intelligence services, reminding currently serving members of the U.S. armed forces that they can, and must, disobey illegal orders.
(can't find it on YT, so here's the Bluesky link)
https://bsky.app/profile/slotkin.senate.gov/post/3m5vtxjmgnk23
#MarkKelly #ElissaSlotkin #ChrisDeLuzio #MaggieGoodlander#ChrissyHoulahan#JasonCrow #USPolitics

2025-11-09 00:47:44 UTC

"A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating."
#JamesWatson #Racism #Bigotry #Sexism
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/james-watson-remembrance-from-dna-pioneer-to-pariah/

2025-11-08 22:10:17 UTC

#CallToAction #SNAP #FederalShutdown #FederalViolence #KatAbughazaleh
Kat Abughazaleh is one of the cnadidates for U.S. Congress ILL-09. She's young and a lot of people have dismissed (including calling her "a YouTuber" rather than a candidate to Congress when reporting on her being thrown by feds at Broadview).
Here's her call to action during this shutdown, as SNAP benefits are withheld by Trump:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwmAQubx65s

2025-11-06 15:32:20 UTC

Hey, women, are you still doing the NYT's wordle? or reading their cooking stuff? their book stuff? their political essays or advice columns? Listen to their fucking podcasts?
Part of your subscription fees are paying for THIS.
Consider shunning the NYT for life.
#NYT #FascistPropaganda
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2025-11-04 12:52:55 UTC

#PSA #CallToAction #TeenVogue
Teen Vogue has now been folded into Vogue, and all politics reporters, all Black women and all trans people working there were fired on Monday (11/3/25) morning.
That is, none of the people who made Teen Vogue a surprisingly effective civics communication vehicle remain with the magazine.
If you or someone in your family has a subscription, now it's a good time to explain what boycotts are and what they can do.
Note how "facts" becomes "progressive politics"
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2025-10-30 13:05:44 UTC

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One of Utah's Cache County commissioner wants to outright close the only public library in the county, cutting 30,000 people from public libraries' resources.
https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/northern-utah/its-our-favorite-parents-patrons-pack-council-chambers-after-proposal-to-defund-cache-county-library
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10/30/cache-county-library-could-close/
#Libraries #FreedomToRead #Utah #EverythingIsPolitics
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2025-10-25 12:53:31 UTC

I really wish more people paid attention to what book bans, library purges, demonization, stalking and threatening of librarians, and the changing "education' standards championed by assholes like DeSantis mean for the future of this country.
First it was, "states rights", not slavery as the reason for the Civil War, now this.
https://buttondown.com/wellsourced/archive/the-direct-line-from-the-red-scare-to-red-hats/

2025-10-21 10:47:57 UTC

#CallToAction #PSA If you were on the fence about disconnecting your ring cameras, perhaps this will help you do it: amazon is now giving access to all its ring cameras to the Feds, local cops and ICE.
So they can arrest your neighbors.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/amazon-ring-partner-flock-network-183505529.html

2025-09-27 13:58:32 UTC

Excellent piece on censorship, and why so many people think they job's done now Jimmy Kimmel is back on air--the hundreds of Black teachers, journalists, first responders, students, and more, who've been victimized in the wake of that murder are still fired, dismissed, victimized and silenced, but they're invisible so no one seems to care.
"More canaries than coal" indeed.
https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/free-speech-crisis-for-black-americans-charlie-kirk/
#USPolitics #Censorship #Racism #FreedomOfSpeech

2025-09-16 17:06:08 UTC

It's September 2025, and two Black men were lynched in Mississippi on Monday the 15th.
Cops may rule these suicide, as they've done in the past when Black men are found hanging from trees in the state, but given Mississippi's own history, the state of the U.S. today, and the fact that cops lie every time they say or write anything, I'm betting it's lynchings.
1/
#TreyReed #CoryZukatis #Mississippi #USPolitics #Lynchings
https://blackzonemagazine.com/not-one-but-two-men-were-found-hanging-in-mississippi

2025-09-10 19:55:31 UTC

The U.K.'s Trade Unions Congress voted--unanimously--to campaign for new legal protections for trans and non-binary people following the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of sex under the Equality Act.
#Unions #UKPolitics #Transphobia #Transphobia sRightsAreHumanRights
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/09/tuc-calls-for-new-legal-protections-for-trans-people-following-supreme-court-ruling/

2025-09-10 15:17:06 UTC

"They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains." Adrian and Shane (on Bluesky)
"The stain remains"
I'll say.
#Banksy #UKPolitics #InJusticeSystem
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2025-09-10 13:34:17 UTC

Via TransActual UK: "Researchers at Oxford University are recruiting caregivers of LGBT+ youth for a study on stigma & family relationships. It is an online survey that takes 20-30 minutes, and all answers are anonymised."
To participate, go here:
https://psychiatryoxford.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eQaJ0En1EJtNxAi
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransHealthCare #Transphobia #TransResearch #LGBTQIAResearch
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2025-09-05 19:39:10 UTC

Alexandra Petri on RFK Jr, vaccines, and Florida
#Florida #Vaccines
(gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/florida-vaccine-children-mandate/684110/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ1KV5cFKtQASw6v7_TPkcvA

2025-09-02 15:21:38 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia #RomBkBlog
Via The Smut Report, a solid piece, that includes the statement, "we firmly believe that all books are political (in that they can not be separated from the conditions under which they are written)"
Word.
https://smutreport.com/2025/09/02/author-spotlight-alyssa-cole/

2025-09-02 01:37:41 UTC

#Romancelandia @npub1ny7…uv57
Via Dr Sam Hirst, call for papers for the Romancing the Gothic talk series 2026:
#RomancingTheGothic
https://romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/romancing-the-gothic-2026-talk-series-call-for-papers/
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2025-09-01 14:40:40 UTC

#PSA #CallToAction If you want to protect what's left of our parks and wild lands in the U.S., please take a few moments to read this, then go leave a comment--we have less than three weeks.
#USPolitics #ProtectWildLands #RoadlessRule
https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/roadless-rule-rollback-comment-period/

2025-08-29 18:18:00 UTC

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#PSA #Writing #Authors #Anthropic #AnthropicClassAction
@npub1ny7…uv57
Via @npub1sq8…nzzs over at the Writer Beware blog:
"If Your Publisher Promised to Register Your Copyright, Check Your Registration Now"
"...the USA makes registration a pre-requisite to any kind of copyright-related court action...Bottom line: don’t count on your publisher to timely register your copyright, even if your contract requires it. Always check."
https://writerbeware.blog/2025/08/29/if-your-publisher-promised-to-register-your-copyright-check-your-registration-now/

2025-08-29 16:25:46 UTC

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#PSA #Writing #Authors #Anthropic #Authors #AnthropicClassAction @npub1ny7…uv57
The @npub18zc…3xla (via Bluesky):
"Authors: If you found out that your publisher(s) failed to register with the U.S. Copyright Office, we can help. We provide ongoing legal assistance to our members and advocate for their work, particularly in the face of ongoing AI-related theft."
Each author must contact them individually, via this form:
https://authorsguild.org/contact/

2025-08-27 20:13:15 UTC

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#PSA #Writing #Authors #Anthropic #AnthropicClassAction @npub1ny7…uv57
If you are unsure whether you can file a claim (see post above), here's how you determine your eligibility to join:
A reminder: Courtney Milan is an author, a lawyer, and generally doesn't opine on issues where she isn't sure of her knowledge and facts.
ETA: link to the thread on Bluesky, because it has more relevant information on this.
https://bsky.app/profile/courtneymilan.com/post/3lxft643l2s2s
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2025-08-27 18:43:10 UTC

#COVID #COVIDVaccine #COVIDBooster
Regarding JKFJr's latest bullshit, here's some reliable information via Matthew Cortland (lawyer)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/fda-approves-for-137487235

2025-08-27 17:40:28 UTC

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#PSA #Writing #Authors #Anthrophic #AnthropicClassAction @npub1ny7…uv57
Authors: GO FILE YOUR CLAIMS
GenAI must crash and burn forever more. Go, get paid for the illegal use/theft of your intellectual property.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/
ETA: here's where you file your claims:
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/

2025-08-22 14:11:28 UTC

No matter what people read or write, if they don't defend the right of authors and readers of explicit genre romance, they'll soon see their own freedoms curtailed. Once they get rid of explicit books, they'll go after women's agency, because only absolute subservience works for them.
#USPolitics #Libraries #BookBans #WomenRights #19Amendment
https://bookriot.com/the-next-book-ban-target-romance-book-censorship-news-august-22-2025/

2025-08-21 21:49:11 UTC

Every immigrant with an accent can relate to this: a former boss made up a pronunciation for my *very common French first name* because my accent is not French but Latinx, and therefore my name had to be mangled.
(it's racism, which like misogyny, can be internalized)
#WorldCon #2025Hugos
https://grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/when-people-giggle-at-your-name-or-the-2025-hugo-awards-incident/
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2025-08-20 20:39:37 UTC

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ICYMI: I somehow managed to read and review a book for this month's TBR Challenge: T.E. Kinsey's _The Fatal Flying Affair_, the 7th full length novel in the Lady Hardcastle historical cozy mysteries series.
Given the fragile reading mojo, good writing and comfort reads help--a lot!
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/the-fatal-flying-affair-by-t-e-kinsey/

2025-08-20 12:57:06 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia #RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge
I somehow managed to read and review a book for this month's TBR Challenge: T.E. Kinsey's _The Fatal Flying Affair_, the 7th full length novel in the Lady Hardcastle historical cozy mysteries series.
Given the fragile reading mojo, good writing and comfort reads help--a lot!
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/the-fatal-flying-affair-by-t-e-kinsey/

2025-08-19 23:19:53 UTC

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#PSA #Writing #Authors @npub1ny7…uv57
Via the Authors Guild: "A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI.
All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work."
Find all you need to know here:
https://authorsguild.org/news/anthropic-ai-class-action-important-information-for-authors/
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2025-08-17 02:54:06 UTC

#PSA: Via authora Gabino Iglesias and Niko Stratis, a warning about the Eden Mills Writers's Festival and their GenAI "writer".
#GenAI #EdenMillsWritersFestival #Writing @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-08-15 17:40:02 UTC

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Via @npub1sq8…nzzs: #WriterBeware: "A brief backgrounder on authors' class action lawsuit against Anthropic for unauthorized AI training, plus how you can find out if your books may be included and how to add yourself to a contact list for official class action notices "
#Writing #Authors #BartzVAnthropic #AnthropicClassAction
https://writerbeware.blog/2025/08/15/bartz-v-anthropic-find-out-if-you-may-be-part-of-this-class-action/

2025-08-15 04:24:10 UTC

#PSA #Authors #Writing #GenAI #Meta #Anthropic #AnthropicClassAction
Deadline to join the class action against Meta/Anthropic: Friday August 15, 2025.
"Submitting your information here does not make you a member of the Class. But, if you are a member of the class, submitting your information will help us direct formal notice of the class action at the appropriate time."
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/
Gift link to The Atlantic database search tool:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/?gift=uvbqc-y7RgcozRTSY7kANHrt8LyDF9nPyN5h5Dmp4rE
Please share widely!
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2025-08-09 00:54:11 UTC

#PSA #PolariPrize #Transphobia @npub1ny7…uv57
Author Sasha Coward withdraws "Queer as Folklore" from the Polar Prize long list over the inclusion of John Boyne, transphobe. (his original post here: https://bsky.app/profile/sachacoward.bsky.social/post/3lvwhq7ljik23)
Also, there's an open letter you can sign, here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfe8SgwGycvDaXMHHzoRkuYDDbABS_R7-0EgsVN1QMMBKYl0w/viewform?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwMCfj5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABpxqBq16p0cryC_CvEDnzlJrh8pdH3X_GcMNRiZJ5VGVn0FfvqL7jsgB7CRQa_aem_jzYCfgNCzD2HWJdh2qjGhg&pli=1
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2025-08-07 15:23:47 UTC

#Romancelandia @npub1ny7…uv57 @npub1me9…z28v
If you have any strong feelings about the use of GenAI in genre romance (both the text and covers/book design) and publishing (copy editing, translation, audio narration). I encourage you to take the survey and use the dialogue boxes to expand on your thoughts. 👇🏽
https://oakland.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5zQN2obtFueDnTM

2025-07-16 16:28:47 UTC

#PSA #Romancelandia @npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57
Via Victoria Dahl aka Victoria Helen Stone: "ALERT! If you get an email from someone claiming to be me and wanting to “chat with fellow writers” or “talk about your writing journey” IT IS NOT ME! It’s a phishing scam. BLOCK & REPORT. Some clues: I don’t have a gmail account & I never want to chat. I’ve reported to Google, so fingers crossed."
Please boost and share!
#Scam #Phishing #Impersonation

2025-07-15 03:26:28 UTC

#PSA: If you use WeTransfer to move files online, they just changed their terms of service, and you can't opt out: they take the right to steal anything you transfer online through them to "train their AI".
Please share and boost
#WeTransfer #GenAi #IntellectualPropertyTheft
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2025-07-09 14:53:35 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
If you are interested in genre romance beyond reading it for pleasure, and you don't yet follow the Teach Me Tonight blog, may I suggest you remedy that by starting to follow it now?
https://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-publications-meaning-of-life-and.html

2025-07-09 11:24:44 UTC

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romancelandia.club is small, but we welcome everyone who loves genre romance.
@npub1skd…z9az @npub1ny7…uv57 @npub1me9…z28v @npub1444…7858

2025-07-09 11:20:44 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57
Relevant: Bookshop's anti-prime sale is ongoing!
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2025-07-06 13:51:32 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
I read Nalini Singh's _Last Guard_; it's the 20th overall in the Psy/Changeling series, 5th in the Psy/Changeling: Trinity arc.
I did not enjoy it.
#RomBkBlog
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/last-guard-by-nalini-singh/

2025-06-26 13:12:28 UTC

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#PSA: Booksmith in San Francisco, has announced that it will no longer carry the Harry Potter books, explicitly in response to J.K. Rowlings vowing to use her earnings from them to fund work to strip human rights from transgender people.
Please note that a BUSINESS choosing not to sell something isn't a "book ban"--and the San Francisco Chronicle should know the difference well.
@npub1ny7…uv57
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/san-francisco-bookstore-removes-harry-potter-20392417.php

2025-06-25 21:48:00 UTC

#PSA via Scientific American:
"Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin."
*if you can* print these schedules and keep them handy.
#Vaccines #VaccineSchedules #USHealthcare
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-vaccine-recommendations-backed-by-science-in-these-handy-charts/

2025-06-23 05:32:58 UTC

Sarah Gailey speaking at the LOCUS awards:
"Inertia is a choice. There are so many other choices you canmake instead."
@npub1ny7…uv57
https://stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/

2025-06-22 21:43:11 UTC

Because of everything:
Via Diane Duane: "Seems like a good day to mention that there are wizardly universes in which the series creator's only opinion about toilets is that when you use one, you should try not to miss. BTW, want the revised/updated versions? They're here in ebook format:"
#Reading #YoungWizards @npub1ny7…uv57
https://www.youngwizards.com/
https://ebooks.direct/products/young-wizards-new-millennium-editions-9-volume-box-set

2025-06-22 21:30:01 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
Via Dr Tressie McMillan Cottom: a genre romance even in New York City, coming in a couple of weeks.
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2025-06-22 09:58:31 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
Forgot to share!
K.J. Charles shared yesterday that there's a new romance bookstore in London!
woot woot!
https://www.saucybooks.com/

2025-06-21 01:36:50 UTC

#Romancelandia @npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57
Billie Bloebaum (of Bookstore Romance Day), on Bluesky: "So much of what's happening in publishing right now feels like the same dynamic we saw in the early days of the e-book/indie publishing explosion when trad pub chased after proven best sellers & wanted everything to be Twilight/FSoG/"New Adult". That eventually evened out & I hope this will, too."
About this very good piece in BookRiot:
https://bookriot.com/unmaking-of-the-historical-romance-genre/
#HistoricalRomance

2025-06-20 21:48:25 UTC

#PSA: if you use the AllTrails app, the GenAI it uses for the "making route" feature may send you down a crevasse or some other dangerous route, where rescuers may not find you, ever.
#AllTrails #GenAI #SearchAndRescue #Hiking
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/17/news/alltrails-ai-tool-search-rescue-members

2025-06-17 01:04:20 UTC

#PSA: racism in publishing
Link to Bluesky thread with receipts:
https://bsky.app/profile/hillarymonahan.bsky.social/post/3lrqzigooxk2d
#DarkOwlPublishing #AndreaDawn #AndreaThomas #Racism #Publis #Romancelandia @npub1ny7…uv57 @npub1me9…z28v
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2025-06-12 21:47:10 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
If you are interested in genre romance as a whole, beyond your usual reading, I wholeheartedly recommend Lucynka's blog, where she reviews and analyzes early Twentieth Century genre romance (often published in pulp magazines, even in installments).
And today, she's just released the first complete version of one such stories: Honor, by Edwina Levin McDonald (originally 1922)
Go forth, get your copy today:
https://lucynka.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/honor-now-available-for-purchase-also-a-sale/

2025-06-12 16:55:43 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
I read Dr Malka Older's _The Potency Of Ungovernable Impulses_, the third in the amazing Investigations of Pleiti and Mossa #ScienceFictionMystery series.
#RomBkBlog
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/the-potency-of-ungovernable-impulses-by-malka-older/

2025-06-11 20:00:08 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57
Courtney Milan's newsletter this week has tea--and a call to action: exercise your first amendment rights (in a decentralized fashion).
Full of links and resources. Read it. For your own sake.
#Romancelandia
#USPolitics #Immigration #LosAngeles #AbolishICE
#AbolishDHS
https://view.flodesk.com/emails/684751e7f3a06ba1757905af
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2025-06-11 00:40:09 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
Are you a fan of Chace Verity's books? If so, I have great news for you: they've started Patreon! Sign up if you are interested in Old Hollywood history (and want to support a favorite author)
https://www.patreon.com/ChaceVerity
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2025-06-10 12:01:05 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
Via Dr Laura Vivanco, this article in the Arkansas Press Democrat about genre romance. (I have THOUGHTS)
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/arkansas-democrat-gazette/20250608/283918823788133

2025-06-08 21:18:01 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57 @npub1me9…z28v #Romancelandia
TFW you are being offered an ARC by a new-to-you author, so you go check samples of her previous work, and the entire first chapter is so full of fatphobia it makes you ill.
No, thanks.

2025-06-08 21:10:28 UTC

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ICYMI: I read _The Long Arm of the Law_, a collection of British short crime stories, edited by Martin Edwards:
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/the-long-arm-of-the-law-edited-by-martin-edwards/

2025-06-08 21:06:18 UTC

"Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California?" --Karen Attiah
#LosAngeles #DavidHuerta #Militarization #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS #SupportUnions #SupportWorkers
https://truthout.org/articles/ice-arrests-david-huerta-beloved-labor-leader-and-seiu-california-president/

2025-06-08 14:49:18 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57
I read _The Long Arm of the Law_, a collection of short classic British crime classic short stories, edited by Martin Edwards.
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/the-long-arm-of-the-law-edited-by-martin-edwards/

2025-06-05 14:04:39 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
Recent genre romance discourse made me think of this meme (read the title of the fifth 'paper')
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2021/05/03/xkcds-types-of-scientific-papers-meme-but-make-it-romance/

2025-06-04 21:58:19 UTC

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ICYMI: My review of _Death at a Highland Wedding_, by Kelley Armstrong, the latest in her Rip Through Time series.
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/death-at-a-highland-wedding-by-kelley-armstrong/

2025-06-04 13:17:30 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
Late, but I finally read my ARC for Kelley Armstrong's most recent entry in the Rip Through Time series, _Death at a Highland Wedding_
#RomBkBlog
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/death-at-a-highland-wedding-by-kelley-armstrong/

2025-05-30 19:58:38 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
Via author Jackie Lau: "May, which is Asian Heritage Month in Canada and AAPI Heritage Month in the US, is almost over!
Check out this list of 40+ romances by Asian authors (both ebook and audiobook) that you can read with your Kobo Plus subscription."
#AsianHeritageMonth #AsianRomance #AsianAuthors
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/romance-by-asian-authors
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2025-05-30 19:00:45 UTC

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Reading someone else's review of a book I had reviewed, was reminded of how hard it is to be specific about why a book doesn't work for you without spoiling the whole plot, but not so vague the review is interchangeable with that of any other book.
(It usually takes me hours to write ONE review)
#Reading #Reviewing #Romancelandia

2025-05-30 15:07:23 UTC

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I know it's bad form to post links to Bluesky, but one of the authors owed several thousand dollars by #Unbound has found a clause in their contract that means the new (and ever more fucked up) #Boundless doesn't own their work.
Please read this thread by Alex De Campi:
https://bsky.app/profile/alexdecampi.bsky.social/post/3lqf5xjkqok2u
And if you were thinking about working with #Boundless or its principals: don't. #Scam
@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-05-29 22:23:48 UTC

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I read Benedict Brown's _Murder at Everham Hall_, the first in his Marius Quin series of historical cozy mysteries.
I really wanted to love this book. Alas! (I totally did not)
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/murder-at-everham-hall-by-benedict-brown/

2025-05-29 18:06:39 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57
Randomly thinking about the fact that I have 630 book reviews posted to my blog, starting in February 2008 (and despite a ~six years long reading slump).
Is that a backlist?
#Reading #Reviewing #Romancelandia

2025-05-29 12:31:28 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
I read Benedict Brown's _Murder at Everham Hall_, the first in his Marius Quin series of historical cozy mysteries.
I really wanted to love this book. Alas!
#RomBkBlog #TBRChallenge
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/murder-at-everham-hall-by-benedict-brown/

2025-05-28 21:42:00 UTC

#PSA #CallToAction
The new Harry Potter show is upon us, and while there's debate as to how much JK Rowling is involved in the running of the show, the fact remains: it's her IP. It makes money, she makes money.
If you watch it, if you buy HP merch, if you visit the HP park attractions, if you make others curious to watch it, etc., you are funding this TERF's persecution of trans people.
So, don't.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #HarryPotter #JKRowling #Transphobe #TERF
https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization

2025-05-28 17:52:52 UTC

#PSA: if you are in the UK...
This is not a drill: Sir Ian McKellen will open an all-trans, non-binary production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"!!!
July 25, 2025, in London--and it's a fundraiser for a trans charity!
Get thee there!
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-ian-mckellen-to-open-historic-all-trans-and-nonbinary-production-of-twelfth-night-484397/

2025-05-28 03:49:53 UTC

#PSA: if you have hummingbird feeders:
Animal centre issues plea to hummingbird feeders after bird poisoned in Victoria, B.C.
No organic, raw or brown sugar should be used, and no sugar substitutes like powdered sugar, honey, or artificial sugars and sweeteners, or red-dyed water.
#Hummingbirds #Birds
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/animal-centre-issues-plea-to-hummingbird-feeders-after-bird-poisoned-in-victoria-bc/
@npub167t…r9wt (just making sure you saw this 👆🏾 )

2025-05-27 23:44:35 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia #MutualAid
The Bree half of Kit Rocha has just been hit with unexpected medical expenses (insurance denying payment of doctor ordered tests). To bridge the gap quickly, she's running a 20% off sale in her etsy story.
https://thebrokencircle.etsy.com/
You can see pictures of some of the things she's offering in this Bluesky thread:
https://bsky.app/profile/mostlybree.kitrocha.com/post/3lq6ca2hqz22r

2025-05-27 22:23:41 UTC

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ICYMI: I read Sandra Antonelli's "Your Sterling Service", the short prequel to the In Service series.
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/your-sterling-service-by-sandra-antonelli/

2025-05-27 12:01:01 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
I read Sandra Antonelli's "Your Sterling Service", the short prequel to the In Service series.
#RomBkBlog
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/your-sterling-service-by-sandra-antonelli/

2025-05-26 21:21:30 UTC

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ICYMI: in the "better late than never" category: I read Sandra Antonelli's _At Your Service_, the first book in her In Service series, for Super Wendy's May TBR Challenge.
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/at-your-service-by-sandra-antonelli/

2025-05-26 11:42:02 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
In the "better late than never" category: I read Sandra Antonelli's _At Your Service_, the first book in her In Service series, for Super Wendy's May #TBRChallenge
#RomBkBlog
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/at-your-service-by-sandra-antonelli/

2025-05-20 17:35:50 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
Heads up: Ann Aguirre is on tour over the summer; check to see if she'll pop in somewhere near you--and please share.
#SummerOfAlienLove
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2025-05-16 18:30:44 UTC

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#Romancelandia
I watched D&D: Honor Among Thieves a while back, and I finally remembered to write a review (of sorts)
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves-2023-sort-of-a-movie-review/

2025-05-16 13:15:21 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
I had forgotten to review this movie!
#RomBkBlog
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves-2023-sort-of-a-movie-review/

2025-05-14 17:17:09 UTC

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ICYMI: I reviewed another of the Lady Hardcastle mysteries as my April entry for SuperWendy's TBR Challenge.
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/death-beside-the-seaside-by-t-e-kinsey/

2025-05-14 16:34:55 UTC

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It appears the breach did nothappen; I just edited my post. I'm sorry for the scare!

2025-05-14 14:28:27 UTC

Excellent, excellent post: we must run governments--from local to federal--like households where everyone cares about everyone else (even when we don't fucking like them that much--we don't have to love or even like everyone we live in community with)
#GovernmentLikeAHousehold
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2025-05-14 14:20:25 UTC

#PSA: if you have a Steam account, you may wanna look into changing your password ASAP
Please boost and share so people can protect themselves as best as they can.
#Steam #DataBreach
https://www.vg247.com/steam-vendor-data-breach-passwords-89-million-users-dark-web

2025-05-14 11:15:59 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
Doing a messy job of it: I read another Lady Hardcastle historical mystery for my (belated) April #TBRChallenge book.
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/death-beside-the-seaside-by-t-e-kinsey/

2025-05-12 13:52:51 UTC

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#CallToAction
Via @npub1mgt…es5k: "I need you to make calls to Congress because on Tuesday, the House Committee responsible for Medicaid is meeting to slash funding for Medicaid—the health program 80 million Americans rely on, the health program that has kept me alive.
This piece is not paywalled, it is not locked—please share it."
#USPolitics #Medicaid
https://www.patreon.com/posts/128587992

2025-05-11 03:55:12 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57
WOOT WOOT!!! "Filmmaker Ava DuVernay receives Smithsonian's Great Americans medal"
#AvaDuVernay #BlackExcellence
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trailblazing-filmmaker-ava-duvernay-receives-smithsonians-great-americans-medal-180986601/

2025-05-11 00:15:37 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia #SALE
@npub1502…7wz5's "The Gladiator's Passion" is on sale for US99c
https://buy.bookfunnel.com/qzyg52t44f
Thinking about why I love this book so much; it's because of the characters. Maius is such a cinnamon roll, and Caomh has been so damaged. It isn't enemies-to-lovers because no matter how prickly Caomh can be, Maius never sees him as anything but himself.
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2023/07/22/the-gladiators-passion-by-sandra-schwab/

2025-05-11 00:02:47 UTC

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Via WIRED's Aidan Moher: "Please, for the love of god, don’t start your new newsletter on Substack. There are so many better and cheaper alternatives who don’t run a business model of platforming the worst among us.
You can get a self-hosted Ghost newsletter up and running for <$10/month."
#SubstackHasANaziProblem #Substack #Ghost
ETA: linking to the original guide by Molly White (h/t Femme Malhereuse for the link)
https://www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost/

2025-05-10 22:18:50 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
Publisher Boldstrokes is having a flash sale this weekend! 20% off!
#SALE #EnemiesToLovers
https://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/offers/3837-flash-sale-enemies-to-lovers-romances-20-off-select-ebooks-through-11-may-1159pm-eastern
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2025-05-10 22:06:15 UTC

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2025-05-10 07:13:31 UTC

2025-05-09 04:22:34 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
Learned today that Libby is now tagging "erotic literature" a bunch of genre romance that are not, as a matter of fact, erotic AT ALL--like, some of the least explicit category romances are tagged as such.
And so, because fuck the puritanical trend we are in, I give you this list. (It's by no means not perfect, but it's pretty damned good)
https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/g26090153/best-romance-novels-of-all-time/

2025-05-08 13:35:42 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
We have some great news from Pamela Clare (who, you may remember, the community fundraised last year to help with medical bills):
"I finally have some BOOK NEWS!
BARELY BREATHING, the first book in the 10-book Colorado High Country Series, will be #FREE this Thursday! That's May 8!
If you haven't read the series, this is your chance to give it a try.
Please spread the word!"
#Romance #PamelaClare
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2025-05-07 19:45:49 UTC

@npub1ny7…uv57
Books about vampires by Black authors (if you have watched "Sinners", this is even more for you)
#Reading
https://reactormag.com/backlist-bonanza-5-underrated-books-about-black-vampires/

2025-05-07 13:28:16 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia #Utah #BookBans
Via Kelly Jensen: so if three schools in Utah ban a book, the book is banned in the WHOLE state. And when a book is banned, students cannot carry their own personal copies in school grounds.
The latest victim of this fuckery: _Water for Elephants_, making it 18 books banned state wide.
https://bookriot.com/utah-bans-18th-book-from-all-public-schools-statewide/

2025-05-07 12:50:06 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
#CallToActio: do not preorder or review Summer Skate by Sean Avery and Leslie Cohen.
Via Fangirl Jeannie: "This is the book co-authored by a hockey player who accused of abusing his ex-wife and child. He was suspended by the NHL commissioner and kicked off his team for speaking so disgustingly about women."
CW: child abuse and intimate partner violence
#ChildAbuse #IntimatePartnerViolence #SeanAvery #SummerSkate
https://www.etonline.com/oppenheimer-actor-and-former-nhl-star-sean-avery-facing-restraining-order-amid-abuse-allegations?amp
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2025-05-05 19:16:58 UTC

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#Romancelandia
ICYMI: I tried to read Debbie Youn's _Death at the Old Curiosity Shop_; after reading the first half, I couldn't force myself to finish
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/death-at-the-old-curiosity-shop-by-debbie-young/

2025-05-05 16:38:28 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
Call for papers! From librarian (and genre romance friend) @npub1d4m…ehw3 and Becky Spratford: Library staff across the spectrum, ex-library staff, even non-library staff, are free to submit. If you are putting the things into people's hands, we want to hear from you.
#Libraries #Librarians #USLibraries
https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/05/announcing-academic-journal-call-for.html

2025-05-05 13:13:57 UTC

@npub1me9…z28v @npub1ny7…uv57 #Romancelandia
I tried to read Debbie Young's _Death at the Old Curiosity Shop_; I tried, but I couldn't force myself to finish.
#RomBkBlog
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/death-at-the-old-curiosity-shop-by-debbie-young/