One of my offline friends was telling me, as I was stuffing watermelon into my mouth, that the reason most people detest #Romance books is, yes, because of the smut, but it leads people to confront some human desires they really don't want to think about. She then continued, when reading a romance book, you have to engage in human connections and relationships instead of a fantasy world or a possible dystopian future. Concepts. I was gonna remind her that romances are starting to involve objects and tech now but I let her continue...
And continuing, People hate having to confront their human desires so they'd rather pretend romance is for dumb people and pretend to engage in higher level concepts instead of their own needs or other peoples needs. I dunno if she nailed it but I haven't stopped thinking about it since. #RomanceLandia#Romance@romancelandia
I just read a romance and I kept thinking it felt a little like fan fiction (no shade, I enjoy) but I couldn’t pick the fandom — until I checked GoodReads and ohhhh, it’s Roy Kent.
He’s here! He's there! He's every-f*cking-where!
(I even thought one of the side characters (not a coach) was a bit like Ted Lasso and still didn’t pick the grumpy hairy ex-footballer lead as Roy Kent!)
Added Ophelia Bell's shop to my list of DRM-free bookshops! 💜
Ophelia Bell is the USA Today bestselling author of the award-winning Fate’s Fools series and loves a good bad-boy and especially strong women in her stories.
K-lytics Sports Romance 2024 Report: Amazon's sports #romance bestseller list climbed to new heights, sustained its performance, and has comparatively low competition. See sales development, competition, the best categories, KU/non-KU performance, high-selling cover art, top authors and publishers, optimal price points, power words for titles, keyword ideas, book descriptions, and more. https://k-lytics.com/dap/a/?a=16040&p=k-lytics.com/sports-romance/#books#bookmarketing#publishing@bookstodon
@bookstodon My #review of Archangel's Lineage (Guild Hunter #16) by Nalini Singh is now live! Nothing remarkable plotwise, but there's plenty of interesting new developments here that'll hopefully be expounded upon in the next books in the series.
In 1996, I wrote a 17-19 page* poem revisiting the myth of Cupid and Psyche from the perspective of a Psyche who never found her Cupid again. A year later, I created a hypertext project about the island upon which my Psyche found herself. In 2009, I began the project that would become the Cantata of the Fourfold Realms, around the premise of "What if instead of ONE Cupid, there was an entire civilization of them?"
Watermyth, the first book of my slow domestic fantasy takes over epic fantasy with mermaids, sirens, faeries, weremaidens and a whole lot of myth and history,