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31 Romances for When the Feminine Rage Is Justified (opens the original)
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Hi Librarygoer!This might be a flyby post while I have a “lull” in the writing schedule. By lull I mean I’m drafting the next thing while my book baby is in the hands of other people (betas, critique partners, and other delightful humans). Everything in the plot bunny file where I store all the things I hope for time to write in the future is a little ragey because, look around, but I ran into a particularly inane piece of content that turned the rage up a thousand.An elder woman was asked if it
A Cinderella Retelling Gets Deliciously Dark: Ember by Naima Simone (opens the original)
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Can you believe we’re already more than halfway through the year?This year has been a dumpster fire of gas prices (so grateful for my EV acquired courtesy of my eight year-old vehicle dying on me), AI witch hunts, and general insanity that might actually now be our baseline. What is normal anyway? The time before “we were all in this together”?Who knows? I’ve been writing a lot lately and ideating too many new potential WIPs that my reading time has reduced by a lot. I’ve been lucky enough to re
[Double Booked] Our Top 10 Reads of 2026 So Far (opens the original)
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