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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com on BS

9 months

Briefly logging in to reveal the new cover for GENTLE ART OF FORTUNE HUNTING! This is coming out in a new edition with @orionbooks in January including an exclusive bonus epilogue. Cover by Chloe Friedlein.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com on BS

@kj_charles

4 years

I've just received an email complaining that there's too much consent in my sex scenes, and tbh I'm really struggling with why the hell you'd write that down and send it to someone.

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7 years

I just had a proper old school Hoxton cockney geezer round to fix the boiler. Him: You know what they should do about all them refugees? Me: [braces] ...mmm? Him: Tear up all the passports. Nations are a load of crap, innit.

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1 year

...I have just heard of the Knot In My Name campaign. You know how AI scrapes sites like AO3 for machine training? The idea is to flood AO3 with omegaverse to the point that all AI text generators everywhere will default to fated mates, breeding, and of course knotting.

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3 years

I cannot believe I'm typing this: I have just received an email asking me to send two of my books for free because the writer has read my other work as pirate copies but wasn't able to find those two. Someone's hallucinating here. I hope it's me.

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1 year

This is beyond disgusting. Cis is a word meaning not trans. I'm a cisgender woman. Cisalpine Gaul was a place. Cis-trans isomerism is a chemistry term, Musk is a massive bigot, and this is wrong as hell.

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4 years

I'm seeing a lot of authors on here apologising for promoting their forthcoming books right now. I've *also* had literally dozens of lovely messages in the past 9 months from readers saying books have got them through the ongoing shitshow. Stop apologising! Books are needed!

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8 years

This may be the best story of all time.

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2 years

I feel I should note something. Many Brits are not going to be here for mawkish nonsense and receiving personal condolences and whatever. But this is also going to be a really fundamental national upheaval, and we don't have to be monarchists to feel weird about that.

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3 years

Etymology moment: In this 1934 crime novel the hotel manager has a guest paged. Which is to say, *he sends a page to get him*.

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1 year

Just signed a contract. This is now a clause I'm insisting on (and with which the publisher was fine, I'm glad to say) but holy wow does it look weird in black and white.

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5 years

@Brainmage My daughter aged 5: carefully and lovingly selected this as a gift for me. My daughter aged 12: " Mum, why do you have that hideous clock?!"

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8 years

...my 7yo son has been persuaded at school that 'sexy' is a bad word, and is now playing a computer game shouting "Die, you sexy men!"

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3 years

Another Guardian article on romance, this one claiming "The forgettability of romantic fiction is part of the point." I mean, whatever, but in my experience romance readers can tell you the name of the hero's brother-in-law from a book you released in 2013 without even *trying*.

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4 years

Here's my specific problem: Consent isn't an administrative preliminary to sex, it is a way of checking your partner is getting what they want. The way consent is portrayed in sex scenes is a huge part of characterisation.

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1 year

I don't know if it will or could work. I do know that a) it's objectively hilarious and b) our timeline really deserves that our Sarah Connor standing against the Rise of the Machines should be omegaverse fanfic writers. Godspeed.

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3 years

It's just dawned on me that 'cosy mystery', ie the genre where murderers wipe out seven people per book over cupcake recipes or directing the village play, should in fact be called Homicidal Monsters Everywhere In Your Life, You Are Safe Nowhere mystery.

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4 years

Consent in a sex scene is not just a tick box (or if it is the author is doing it wrong). It's a tool for using a sex scene to develop the relationship in whatever way, and to inform the reader about character.

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4 years

I am 100% on board with authors actively seeking criticism from beta readers and editors. I am 100% on board with reviewers stating their feelings about books exactly as they wish in their review space. No, you may not personally email me your unsolicited critiques. No.

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1 year

There is a very clear continuum that runs from transphobia through homophobia through anti-abortion, divorce restrictions, and even into bans on Black hair styles. That continuum is the 'law' that straight cis white men get to dictate everyone else's bodies.

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1 year

I literally tweeted about this this morning. They’re coming for no-fault divorce. Ladies, you need to read up on what life was like before no-fault divorce. This will be terrifying for women who don’t have the money or connections to make it through the justice system

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3 years

The heroine in my book (female author) has just started her period and to make herself feel better she **puts on brand new expensive underwear from Paris**, and now I'm not sure I know how to read any more because what.

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5 years

Plus you'll never have a morning waking up to the whole paramilitary wing of Romance Twitter descending on you like armoured pterodactyls, and that's got to be worth something. #CopyPasteCris

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4 years

"consent is so boring" + "you must read my opinions whether you like it or not" = ICK.

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3 years

There is no medium to convey instructions more exasperating than a video tutorial. Give it to me in cuneiform on wet clay, tattoo it on the underside of a live wild boar, encode it into a copy of a Dan Brown novel if you must, but for fuck's sake don't make me watch a video.

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7 years

Lovely culture clash moment in the London cafe I'm sat in. US man to waiter: Hi! Hey, what's your name? Waiter, with grave suspicion: Why?

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4 years

If this could become the new trend in historical romance covers please? Thank you.

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4 years

I legit don't think I've ever seen this pose this way round before.

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1 year

@Sarah_Woolley Couldn't resist.

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2 years

I'm sorry but this is amazing. "What happened to the English monasteries?" Well, there was this woke virtue-signaller called Henry VIII...

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2 years

Funniest tweet of the day, on multiple levels 😂

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3 years

Reading a romance where the lively free spirit sunshine one takes the reserved introvert out of their shell to enjoy life etc. Are there any books where the sunshine one is persuaded to sit the hell down and shut the hell up for five minutes?

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7 years

Man mocks romance novels, apologises, decides to read one, livetweets, gets visibly hooked, demands linked book, and starts fancasting, in the space of a thread.

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1 year

You are welcome to refer to me as a 'person with a uterus' or a 'person who menstruates' when the subject is uterus-or menstruation-related, in the same way you can call me a 'writer' or a 'driver' or a '50-year-old' when those descriptions are relevant WHY IS THIS EVEN HARD

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1 year

I'm a woman. Please don't ever refer to me as a person with a uterus, birthing person, or person who menstruates. How do people not realize how degrading this is? You can support the transgender community without doing this shit.

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4 years

If a character is repeatedly verbally checking in with their partner, that might tell us a lot about their experience, their attitude to sex, their feelings about the partner's potential vulnerability, their own uncertainty.

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4 years

eg The consent in Band Sinister is super verbalised because the experienced MC is not just 'getting consent', he wants his inexperienced lover to explicitly voice his desires in order to understand them and become more comfortable.

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2 years

holy SHIT people, I just discovered there's an urban fantasy series about a 60yo heroine becoming the 'Crone' (as in maiden, mother, and) and as if that's insufficiently delightful THE SERIES IS CALLED 'THE CRONE WARS'.

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3 years

Wherever I go, my cat likes to walk in front of me, despite having no idea where I'm going or what I'm doing, and also going rather slower than me. I'm appointing him to a middle management position forthwith.

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3 years

I get tired of talking about my job. So I ask questions to redirect the conversation. Which just led to: Hairdresser: What do you do? Me: Oh, I'm a writer, books and stuff. What do you do? Hairdresser, ie the woman cutting my hair at that very moment: ...I'm a hairdresser.

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3 years

My son just dissed my C-section-born daughter as "yeah well YOU were from your mother's womb untimely ripped!" to which she replied "At least they didn't use a toilet plunger to get ME out!" and I'm like...don't mind me, it was just my body.

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7 years

PSA: If you're inclined to write an author a email/letter to say what a book meant to you or how much you liked it, but you aren't sure if they want to be bothered? YES. YES THEY DO WANT. It means the absolute world. Trust me on this

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3 years

Taiwan edition of The Magpie Lord. And here I was thinking I'd never have anything as gorgeous as the Thai edition. God, I'm blessed in my foreign rights. *drools*

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3 years

Being a historical romance author = spending your morning trying to come up with a Regency way to say "fuck around and find out."

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2 years

Read a blurb for a cosy mystery series with a detective who compiles crossword puzzles and it ends "Cora must find a killer before she winds up in a wooden box three feet across…and six down", and I'm going to retire now because I will never have a blurb that beats that.

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4 years

Other MCs might prefer not to talk during sex at all. Maybe consent is conveyed in body language and eye contact. Maybe characters are operating with care. Maybe they aren't and it's not sought. Each of those choices tells you about the characters and their position right then.

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1 year

They *are* asking us to say "May the King live forever" as the coronation oath. I thought that was the tabloids going insane. It's actually the country. Whatever. I've read fantasy novels, I can see a scheme to create an Eternal Lich-Lord by mass invocation when I'm offered one.

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1 year

Me: I'm so sick of certain types of historical romance treating England like it's just some twee made-up fantasy land full of stupidly named villages! England:

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3 years

Well, I've taken my first tube journey since forever and I have the following observation: IT GOES OVER YOUR NOSE. YOUR *NOSE*, YOU UNFATHOMABLE BLOBFISH. Fifteen months. Dear God. My cat learns faster than this, and he's a moron.

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4 years

It's my authorversary! I have been a published author for seven years today. Seven years, 22 completed novels, and right now I am *again* staring at a half-finished synopsis going "how do I book, what is words??"

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1 year

I'd published my first ?4 books and was really hating my job, and we'd talked about me quitting at Christmas to write full time if sales went well. We sat in a pub garden in July, and he said, "Quit now. Don't wait. We can always eat out of bins."

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1 year

Plz send heartwarming stories of straight male partners supporting your creative endeavors. Hungry for a story that isn't "I achieved unprecedented professional success and my relationship was never the same."

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3 years

AAAH LOOK AT THIS. Talia gets the shout out she deserves in a lovely positive piece about romance in the Guardian!

Romantic fiction writers creating a more diverse happily ever after

How book-loving communities on social media are helping authors break barriers to become bestsellers

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Sorry, just got to QT this again because, for the non Brits following along at home, Nadhim Zahawi was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer THIS MORNING, BY BORIS JOHNSON, WHO HE'S NOW TELLING TO RESIGN.

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**Nadhim Zahawi** is in the delegation of cabinet ministers about to tell the prime minister to go, I'm told

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5 years

We bother because good books matter. And they matter all the more in a rising tide of substandard processed pink slime. People will see it, they will know your name, and they will appreciate that you cared. That you worked. That you did your best.

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2 years

My hot take: we need the puns to be more extreme. I stand amazed that nobody has done EARLS WHO LIKE BOYS or EARLBOSS or GIRL WITH AN EARL PEERING (that would be voyeurism kink obv)

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i don't understand why we're clinging to puns for romance novel titles.

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3 years

Lord, give me the competence of a heroine who can just wear her nicest knickers in shark week because she's that good at life.

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4 years

Quiz show asked how you 'like' someone on Tinder. Me: Right swipe! Kids: How do *you* know? Me: I'm a romance novelist, duh. Kid 1: *Historical* romance. What, were they right swiping on engravings in the Regency? Kid 2: Hear, ye, hear ye, I have swipethed right on ye hottie!

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3 years

This is an incredibly good question and also plan.

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1 year

$8 a month for a blue tick like mate that's 2/3 romance novels. You're asking me to surrender 12-36 romance novels a year in return for the "Probably A Nazi" badge. I think the hell not.

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3 years

"I'd really like to steal your work but it's proving a bit difficult so could you organise that for me?" is ... certainly a request. Yes. *exhales*

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1 year

AaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *gasp for breath* aaaaaaaa!!!!! @SourcebooksCasa

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5 years

I've just seen a man on FB explaining how much better Frankenstein could have been if he'd been able to give Mary Shelley some writing advice. I am leaving the internet and possibly the human race forever.

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3 years

I herewith present the annual chez Charles gingerbread house, which this year is Tudor. Design and bake by Mr KJC, sweeties planned, executed, and eaten by KJC Jrs. The glass windows are baked in from crushed Fox's glacier mints. 100% edible (except for the tea lights inside).

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4 years

LOOK. My cover for SLIPPERY CREATURES 😍😍🗡️ 1920s m/m romantic suspense starring Will Darling (heavily armed bookseller) and Kim Secretan (dodgy aristocrat and one-man game of Fuck Marry Kill). Cover by @LadyTiferet Preorders Releases 13 May.

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3 years

Serious point: I cannot aspire to or endorse this knicker policy, but massive props to all the authors normalising romance MCs having periods on page and talking about it.

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3 years

A rare sighting of the Fuck or Die trope in non fiction. This from a book on the Crusades. "...oh no, a fiery snake bit me!" "FFS Count Baldwin, that's the twelfth time."

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2 years

When someone's face is on stamps and coins and notes, and you regularly sing anthems to them, and for most of us they've been monarch longer than we've been alive...it's going to be really weird and unsettling, and it's not like we've had a shortage of weird and unsettling.

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3 years

A magnificent thread on Why Regency Gentlemen's Trousers Were Not Attractively Snug At The Back, which, speaking as a historical romance writer, I'm now going to pretend I never read.

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3 years

A follow up for yesterday's thread: Why Geralt of Rivia's Pants as Portrayed by Netflix are an Exercise in Impossibility from a Historical Perspective There will be embarrassing tailoring discussions. You've been warned.

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5 years

@HubertusVenator @UKLGIG @OwenJones84 "Acrobats, jesters, smooth-skinned lads, Moors, flatterers, pretty boys, effeminates, pederasts, singing and dancing girls, quacks, belly-dancers, sorceresses, extortioners, night-wanderers, magicians, mimes, beggars, buffoons” --Richard of Devizes on London in 1192.

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2 years

Okay. Brace yourselves. Japanese cover of A Case of Possession, by yoco, and all I have to say is: nnnnnnngh.

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1 year

I swear, we need to rename sensitivity reading to "cultural accuracy read". Otherwise gammons will keep insisting they're about snowflakes and hurt feelings or whatever, rather than about avoiding cliches and getting stuff right.

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1 year

Weirdos crying over the removal of racial slurs from Agatha Christie novels: I bet I've reread Christie more recently than you. And I double bet you can't cite a Christie quote with a racial slur and give me a good literary reason why it should remain intact.

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3 years

What the absolute living Jesus-shit brass-balled bullshit squirrelfuckery do you call this

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3 years

I know kids hate it when adults say"Haven't you grown!" but they need to understand the alternative is "Who said you could get taller than me, you treacherous bastard?!"

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1 year

Yeah. I put a LOT of work into Twitter. I've built up a reasonable following and sold a lot of books, mine and other people's, and met a lot of really interesting people with stuff to say, and I do not want to lose a decade of that effort because of rich fascist ego.

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I’m sorry but twitter dying is not funny to me in the slightest. Outside of its ties to my professional art career, I get a lot from it: friends, communities, knowledge, support, news. I’m really not on here just to show and market my art. I genuinely like being here lol

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I am writing a book set in April 1923. Do you know what this means? WELL, DO YOU? My romance heroine can read Georgette Heyer as she comes out, that's what. I have achieved Romance Inception.

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3 years

Welp, my son has tested positive. Big thanks to our glorious leaders and their ingenious policy of managing Covid by letting it rip through schools and therefore families and therefore the entire country.

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2 years

There is a wren, body approx size of a small hen's egg, nesting in my garden. It has just sent the cat running into the house. It is at the far end of the garden and I can hear it all the way from the kitchen, shouting FURRY BASTARD COME BACK HERE I'LL FUCKIN DO YER in bird.

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4 years

I just had a sodding brilliant idea for a pair of romances. Like, *brilliant*. I even have brilliant titles for them. I have been an inspiration void for months, with all the writing elan and sparkle of pondweed. I have NO IDEA where this came from but tbh I could cry.

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3 years

While I'm not always sure about the place of the word 'bulge' in sex scenes, I am even less happy when I type it as 'bugle'.

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2 years

NOISES ONLY AUDIBLE TO DOGS

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3 years

My son: Hey, Mummy, I have to write a historical story for school, and I want to do a Victorian adventure. Can you help? Do you have any books? Me: ...my whole life has led up to this moment.

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3 years

I'm unplugging for a while because I'm so angry I could choke right now. I'm off to write a story in which cruel violent men face consequences for their actions, aka "women's fiction."

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3 years

Utterly fabulous footnote about a haunted spellcheck. I want this plot in an urban fantasy.

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1 year

My agent is adding boilerplate contract language to specify: No text may be used for AI training. No AI narrators for audio. No AI images on the cover. Because orgs turning to AI won't be outlier behaviour for long. It will become standard if we don't oppose it.

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3 years

Chasing the Murderbot high, aka that very specific type of feelgood comfort read that involves substantial violence, chaos or mayhem. See also T Kingfisher but I've reread those a dozen times too so other recs follow:

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"It’s an insult to authors not to finish each and every book you start" whatever mate, I didn't even finish reading the article.

Opinion: It’s an insult to authors not to finish each and every book you start

The novelist Mark Billingham has suggested that readers should throw a book ‘across the room angrily’ if it doesn’t grip them immediately. But entertainment, surely, isn’t the only reason why people...

www.independent.co.uk

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4 years

I am absolutely delighted to reveal the cover of THE SUGARED GAME (Will Darling Adventures 2) by @LadyTiferet . I cannot get over how good these are. Publishes 26 August, preorders available in due course.

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Reading a romance novel where they're ignoring the just-delivered pizza in favour of having sex and I'm like "yes, but...pizza..."

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2 years

A long-standing pillar of the state is about to fall. That means something, even if you don't agree with how any of this shit is propped up.

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2 years

...this is not an artistic decision I'd ever considered before, and now I'm unable to think about anything else.

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2 years

I'm perufing a PDF of a book publifhed in the 1790f, of which no modern edition feemf to be available, and I have to fay it'f ftarting to do my head in.

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1 year

... ... ...literally that is a life goal achieved. I'm just going to sit here being slightly tearful for a minute.

Waterstones Wakefield

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1 year

Well of course I gave my favourite author a dedicated table for her new book 😍 The Secret Lives of Country Gentleman by @kj_charles is another fantastic romp through regency England full of smugglers, romance and danger!

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3 years

I am overjoyed to reveal the cover of Subtle Blood by @LadyTiferet . Starring Kim Secretan (reformed spy/liar/git, an honest book dealer these days) and Will Darling (also an honest bookseller, the knife is just for emotional support) (Releases 23 June, preorders to come.)

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3 years

Every now and again I see writing advice tweets about how prologues and epilogues are Bad because Reasons, and I am just here to tell you that they're bloody great.

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4 years

I'm reading a UK-set contemporary by a US author and... it's just amazing to me that you would write an entire book set in a real country and not get *someone* from there to read it over. We have a population of 66 million. I'm sure one of us was free.

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3 years

Mr KJC witnessed a man at the school gates loudly mocking a 5yo boy for kissing his mum goodbye. "Oooh, does diddums want his mummy?" Delighted to report the boy in question, my son's Worst Friend, promptly kicked Toxic Dad very hard in the shins. The mum did not apologise. :D

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2 years

Reading a billionaire CEO romance and stalled on "his investors may pull out of the deal because of his playboy reputation". There's a lot of implausible things I'll swallow in romance, but "billionaire being held accountable by other rich people" is apparently no longer one.

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3 years

"Who can remember anything about this totally samey genre" says woman who has never tried coming on Twitter and asking for "that 30yo book where the heroine was a heroin addict and the hero gets her to quit" and getting the answer within 5mins.

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4 years

I've put The Magpie Lord on FREE for the duration. Magic, mayhem, m/m romance. (Amazon are taking ages to price match--report a lower price or grab the mobi at Gumroad.) Usual stores epub or mobi:

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2 years

Today I learned that a double breasted frock coat was often known as a Prince Albert. So I *will* be writing a Victorian story in which someone walks into a club sporting a Prince Albert, with no further explanation, and you can't stop me.

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1 year

I looked at EL James' new masterpiece, The Missus (take a moment here to get over just how bad the title is) and the blurb says: "He now has to wed her, at the sharp end of a shotgun." The what end of a what was that?

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4 years

Anti-gravity cake for KJC Jr's twelfth birthday. Took a solid hour of screaming at Smarties.

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2 years

For the record, I am nearly 49 and I am in dire need of a rocking chair and an absolute *shedload* of romance novels.

Anna Korving

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Hey @samatlounge seen this ad? From today’s online edition of The Times. I am not sure where to start! Isn’t romance one of the biggest selling genres in fiction?

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2 years

Me at hairdresser's: Sorry, I'm kind of zoned out today. Hairdresser: No, that's fab. To be honest I much prefer to concentrate on what I'm doing and not talk. Some of my clients bring a book. Me: be right back, just going to book appointments with you for the next five years.

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