Am I the only one who gets mildly upset every time a couple forgoes the meal they just cooked for sex in a romance novel? Like bruh, I know she's hot, but you just spent hours making homemade pasta and now it's going to waste because you'd rather "eat her" for dinner...
This soon-to-published author decided to call the reviewer who dared to give her 4 ⭐️s a "b*tch" for ruining her "perfect average". Ummm... 🤔
P.S.
@GoSparkPress
I believe you're publishing her debut this September. Thoughts?
A thread of REAL couples I need to see immortalized in romance novels before I die. 😍❤️
Starting with the obvious...
Joshua Jackson & Jodie Turner-Smith. I'm sensing a boss/assistant romance. SHE's the boss. Clearly.
The greatest trick the romance novel industrial complex ever pulled was convincing us that every single, hot dude has six equally hot, single brothers.
Oh and let's not forget Tom Hiddleston & Zawe Ashton. Gosh I love them...
I'm thinking they're presenters who met at a conference and he was just sooooo taken with her brilliance...
@SweetRazzberrie
Yeah. 😬 Truly, I think she might just be rage-farming, but either way... it's not a good look. Especially when this is your debut book!
For anybody wanting updates on the TB cover art saga, she just revealed the new cover.
For everybody that questioned why the white MMC looked Asian in the original cover art... now you can't see his face at all. 🤔
Dave Franco & Alison Brie: Short couple FTW!
Hear me out... She's a celebrity blogger & activist. He's her brother's blue collar bestie. I feel like it takes place in Boston.
Donald Trump was shot.
I don’t care what your political views are but the hate for Trump and his supporters has gone too far.
People are terrified to admit they support Trump. I’ve been scared myself.
Americans shouldn’t live in fear.
I support Trump. Many at Sticker Mule
@GoSparkPress
As Pride Month is approaching, I would love to encourage y'all to pre-order this incredible charity anthology I'm a part of.
Also, my novella, 𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑳𝒐𝒔 𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒛 is available (feat. a bi Brit & a plus-size baddie).
*You can leave whatever ⭐️ rating you want.
Is anybody else having trouble reading alpha heroes these days?
Like, men try to control what I wear, what I say, and what I do with my body on a daily basis. I'm finding it difficult to look beyond that or *gulp* find it sexy in my books. 📚 Thoughts??
👺🕷 M O N S T E R L O V E 🦇 👹
You asked for it... And I was all too happy to deliver. 😘 Here's my round-up of (mostly) recent
#monsterfucker
erotic and
#romance
books, PLUS a few more coming soon!
Here's to some spooky, sexy reading this
#Cocktober
! 🎃
Because our reading theme for the
#podcast
this month is "Yummy Love" and I'm always hungry, I give you May
#Romance
Releases as Donuts: a Thread. 🍩📖
HOW TO FIND A PRINCESS by
@AlyssaColeLit
(Available 05/25)
Rather than read monster romance only in October and holiday romance only in December, can we please get more MONSTER HOLIDAY ROMANCE?! 🎄👻
Like, do you know how horny I'd get over a jolly gingerbread-baking, house-decorating demon??
Hear me out... a podcast that pits the sexiest parts of romance novels against each other each episode - head-to-head battle royale. An impartial judge decides the "winner" each episode. ❤️😆
Thoughts?
I've been thinking about this for awhile... There is not enough
#cannabis
content in romance novels. 🌱
Moreover, where are all the weed-smoking, edible-taking, pot-vaping heroines?? 🔍🕵♀️ Thankfully, I know of at least a few...
👉 Can you think of more?
#Happy420
Real talk: where are the joyful book proposals? Where are the knee slappingly funny but also serious novels? I’m reading so much great stuff, great work Team Literature, but am also maybe drowning in despair...?
@anaennoir
I'm all for the cuddly pose, but there's still the issue of "why have these white characters been illustrated as non-white?" That feels like a false representation for what's in the book...
What better way to celebrate my 30th Birthday then with a MASSIVE ROMANCE giveaway?! 🎊🎂
✨Introducing
#ThirtyFlirtyAndReading
✨
I've teamed up with some of my favorite
#Romance
authors to bring you 30+ books in 30 days! 😘 It all begins April 1st! 💋📖
I'm about to go float down a river via innertube in a small town...
If I don't meet a hot, single dad who left the city to open an outdoors adventure company today, I don't know if I ever will.
✨ATTENTION Romance Writers, Readers, Bloggers & Podcasters!! ✨This summer, I'm launching a monthly YouTube panel and I'm looking for guests.❤️🥰
Click here for more details and to submit your interest:
I don't know if we've gone one week without discussing this on the podcast.
There's no denying it... We hold our female characters in romance to impossibly high standards.
For a number of reasons, including but not limited to attacking a reviewer and multiple others online, we have decided to part ways with one of our authors.
(2/5)
I took the weekend off Twitter and came back to find we hit 2,000 TWITTER FOLLOWERS! Thank you all so much 🥳 I couldn't ask for a better way to kick off my birthday month!
#Aries
#April1st
I'm so grateful for my
#PodernFamily
! 💋❤️
Major props to
@kennedyrwrites
for choosing not to villainize the hero's ex-girlfriend in REEL.
In general, I'd love to see a lot less villainizing of ex-partners in romance novels. Characters are allowed to have healthy relationships before they meet "the one".
These are not the men you fall in love.
These are the men who give you the f*ck of your life on a mattress on the floor (bottom sheet only) in a one-bedroom apartment they share with four other dudes.
Happy Line Cook Summer.
Not a woman on booktok taking the convo about white authors writing POC stories and spinning it to say that POC authors shouldn't be allowed to write white people's stories... 😬🤦♀️
Am I currently working on my debut holiday romance novella? Yes.
Is there a scene where she pulls down the zipper of his Christmas onesie and things get frisky when she finds he's 💯 nude underneath? Also yes.
I'm excited to share the cover for my DEBUT holiday novella, 𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑳𝒐𝒔 𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒛, available 10/25.
🥂 Casual fling-to-lovers
👙 Unapologetically fat & tattooed baddie
💅 Bisexual short king (who paints his nails)
🎁 Naughty (and nice) toy play
Links in bio!!
I'm surprised it took four whole days of
#DisabilityAwarenessMonth
for us to see some bullshit ableist book blurb...
Terms used to describe the MC in the blurb include "damaged", "undesirable", & "bound to a wheelchair".
Gross.
It's the holiday season in Los Angeles and I (32F) keep running into the same hunky Brit (34M) at every festive shindig. He used to date my roommate's sister, but now he's single and I'M ready to jingle... his balls. 🎄But is this just a holiday fling??
Hey! I think it’s time for another round of describe your romance novel like a r/relationships Reddit post. Bonus points if it’s a book coming out in ‘23
Hey
#Romancelandia
! Last week, someone asked Twitter users to select their top three comedy films from a list of nine. I felt inspired, so...
Out of these nine
#romancenovel
tropes, which three would you keep? 💋🥰
"[The sex scenes] were really explicit. The virginal heroine has no trouble recreating something she read in erotic stories she found in her husband's possessions on their first encounter, including pleasuring herself in front of him and oral sex."
What exactly didn't you like?
My personal "favorite" is the statement about how she was taking a creative and financial "risk" by writing DIVERSITY into her book...
This ain't it. 🤦♀️
✨Monster Love Links ✨
Authors who submitted their monster love stories for the VGP anthology and have decided to move forward and self-publish, drop your links in the comments so we can purchase your work! ❤📣
I'll RT too, starting with the pre-order for
@AvedaVice
👇
🌽 FEAR, AND OTHER LOVE LANGUAGES 👁️
(aka my monster antho story)
🌈 Nbi/F/M polyam
🛌 Human + nightmare + night terror
🕯️ Monsters built for torture
👣 Erotic horror + primal play
🩸 True love gets revenge on your enemies
Pre-order (special price!):
Older heroines and grumpy heroines are literally two of the most requested tropes I'm asked about by readers.
Trad pub needs to wake up and listen to what readers actually want..
Why doesn’t anyone (publishing people) want a book with older female protagonists even though we know everyone (the world) wants them…Jane Fonda is still making movies for a motherfucking reason
On a more serious note, I lost my Papa today. 💔 He lived an adventurous life of 80+ years with his sweetheart - my Mimi - for more than 60 of those years.
I wish I could remember the last time we talked, hugged, etc. but Covid has definitely kept us apart. Love you Papa.
Well, Grandma died today... on the eve of what would've been her 94th birthday.
I have no doubt that she's sharing saltine crackers (from her purse) and coffee ice cream with Barbara Walters somewhere. ❤️ Love you, Grandma!
(That's me on the left with the doll)
Happy Birthday to me! Tomorrow, I'm kicking off my birthday with a DOUBLE EPISODE release. First up, "The Governess Game" featuring
@fmnstbookclub
. Then, "My Brother's Five Friends" with fellow
#romance
podcaster,
@tstlpodcast
. Looks like 28 is gonna be fun & flirty! ❤️💋🎂
It's our fourth recording day for the "12 Days of Boobs-mas", which means it's time for another
#giveaway
!
Drop a comment with your ELF NAME to be entered to win. A winner will be selected during today's recoding so act fast!!🎄🎅
#podernfamily
#podcast
#SaturdayMotivation
A friendly reminder for those of you currently stacking your February
#TBR
lists...
#BlackHistoryMonth
should not be the ONLY month you're reading/reviewing books about and by Black people. 💋🖤 K, thanks.
Better late than never... I hope you enjoy listening to our Steamy Spotlight interview with
@JodiEllenMalpas
as much as I enjoyed recording it! ♥️🥰
And stay tuned for our Book Club episode when we read and discuss Jodi's latest, ARTFUL LIES with
@beckles212
of
@tstlpodcast
!
This is basically my expectation when I read a romance "series". I want to fall in love with the future couples while reading the first book... am I asking too much? 😁
I love it when authors tease their future couples in a romance book. Makes me feel like I have some kind of inside knowledge and makes the anticipation for their books even sweeter.
"Trashy" romance novels are just as valid and worthwhile as the "smart" romance novels. And while we're at it, maybe think about why books get labelled "trashy" to begin with.
I launched the Boobies & Noobies podcast to share my love for
#romancenovels
, but also to combat the stigmas that surround the genre. There is absolutely nothing wrong with these books, their messages, the authors who pen them, or the readers who enjoy them. 💕📕
#tweetyoself
You heard it here folks!
@fmnstbookclub
is a fan and that's all that really matters. 📕❤️ Be sure to listen to our review of "The Governess Game" by Tessa Dare before our latest Sexy Spotlight episode drops TODAY!
#LadyPodSquad
#Podcast
#RomanceReaders
This
#February
we're celebrating
#BlackHistoryMonth
by highlighting some of my favorite black authors and the incredible stories they've created. ❤💋 I encourage everyone to pick up a
#WOC
#romance
ASAP.
Might I recommend one of our February reads? 😉
#ladypodsquad
Okay, I couldn't help myself. Let the Chrisgasms continue... ❤😍
@OnFrolic
gave us Chris Evans.
@everydaymagic21
gave us Chris Pine. And now, I give you Chris Hemsworth as
#romancenovel
covers.
BIG NEWS: I’m opening a romance bookstore here in Portland, Oregon! It’s called Grand Gesture Books and it’ll be the second Black owned bookstore in the Rose City. While it’ll be online for the next couple of months, a brick and mortar is coming 💘 1/2
🎉BIG NEWS🎊We've officially launched the Boobies & Noobies website!
That's right! You can now visit our one-stop-shop of a site to check out the full episode archive, brand new blog, and... Boobies & Noobies merch! 🙌 Newsletter coming soon!
We've got new
#Patreon
content out today as well as a NEW EPISODE coming this evening! 💋❤️ In our latest "Bonus Boobies", guest
@themkmcfadden
and I discuss
@AlyssaColeLit
's awesome list of "The Best
#Romance
Novels Of 2018".
Here's the list:
In part two of the Birthday Double Episode Extravaganza, we're talking "The Governess Game" by
@TessaDare
with the amazing lady behind
@fmnstbookclub
! Whoever said
#romancenovels
weren't feminist, clearly has never read this book. ❤️🥳
#ladypodsquad
Seems like the perfect time to remind romance readers and authors alike that reproductive rights and health DO have a place in our books. ❤️
@xav_tenn
An HEA doesn't need to end with a baby.
Not every character wants to be a parent.
1/3
As discussed in our latest
#podcast
episode, 𝑩𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓. 🍰🎸
It's all fun and games until you make romance novels (or their readers) the punchline. Then, we'll come for you, Chad...
1700 Followers! HUGE THANKS for everybody's support thus far. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that
#podcasting
about
#romancenovels
would open me up to this incredible community of fellow podcasters, writers, and readers.
Let's get to 2000 for a
#giveaway
! 💕
Actual messages sent to my critique group about my WIP:
- Is it weird that literally ALL the women in this town are plus-size?
- Somehow this book went from enemies-to-lovers to sex lessons... 🤷♀️
- Is Chapter 8 too soon for a deep-throating scene?
Our September titles are up! Yes, a few of them might look familiar... 😉 Recording with guests and coordinating schedules can be tricky, but get ready, because this month's
#romance
picks are all about second chances, strippers, sexy chefs, and pirates. 🦜🏴☠️
#ladypodsquad
The amount of book and script submissions I had to read while working in film development that used sexual assault as the defining characteristic of a woman's character arc...
But no, you're right. I'm "ridiculous" for preferring a woman's happily ever after. DUH.
@ingloriousgigi
That's not what she said at all... Of course, readers shouldn't tag authors in negative reviews. 🙄 But if that's your point, then say THAT.
Our latest episodes feature
@YANFPodcast
! In "Making Sense", the ladies and I review Lila Rose's
#RomanceNovel
featuring a plus-size heroine. In the Sexy Spotlight episode, we tackle the topic of "Feminism & Romance". Check them out before our new episode on Friday!
#ladypodsquad
Noodle and I have got some sleep to catch up on, but Boobies & Noobies will return with all new episodes later this
#January
❤📚
Can you help us hit 3,000 followers before Season 3 begins??
#LadyPodSquad
#Romance
Our
#Boobsmas
recordings kick off tomorrow and you know what that means...
#Giveaway
time! 🎁🎉
For the 1st Day of Boobsmas,
@guitarmanjb
and I are talking "Eight Cozy Nights" by Julia Wolf. What's the most memorable gift you've received during the holidays?