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Illicit Liaisons: Witchy Romance with Mara Heath & Jenna Harte/Eva LeClerc (opens the original)
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This week, we continue celebrating the release of Starlit & Spellbound, our first fall anthology featuring 10 spellbinding romances with witches, ghosts, fated mates, enemies-to-lovers, forbidden love, curses, fate & more!We're chatting with Mara Heath and Jenna Harte/Eva LeClerc about love triangles, witchy romance, and more. Mara Heath is the author of the new-adult paranormal romance “Out of Bounds” in Starlit and Spellbound, as well as the author of her contemporary fantasy romance novels Ha
Ice Planet Barbarians: A Sci-fi Romance Review (opens the original)
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Hey, folks! Real quick before we begin. We don’t normally do reviews as a practice around here, and Tender and Tempting Tales isn’t really a weekly location for romance book reviews. Since I’m editing our next zine, though, which is sci-fi romance, I thought I ought to look closely at one of the big names in the subgenre at the moment. As it turned out, I had some thoughts, and I mostly share them to entertain. Onward!<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/ima
Illicit Liaisons: Starlit & Spellbound with Urna Semper and T.A. Leederman (opens the original)
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This week, we continue celebrating the release of Starlit & Spellbound, our first fall anthology featuring 10 spellbinding romances with witches, ghosts, fated mates, enemies-to-lovers, forbidden love, curses, fate & more!We're chatting with two of the authors in Starlit & Spellbound, T.A. Leederman and Urna Semper, about bookish drama, their stories in Starlit & Spellbound, and more.Urna Semper is a romance author from Argoshaan, known for her books depicting passionate tales of forbidden love
Illicit Liaisons: Starlit & Spellbound with Urna Semper and T.A. Leederman (opens the original)
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This week, we continue celebrating the release of Starlit & Spellbound, our first fall anthology featuring 10 spellbinding romances with witches, ghosts, fated mates, enemies-to-lovers, forbidden love, curses, fate & more!We're chatting with two of the authors in Starlit & Spellbound, T.A. Leederman and Urna Semper, about bookish drama, their stories in Starlit & Spellbound, and more.Urna Semper is a romance author from Argoshaan, known for her books depicting passionate tales of forbidden love
If You Could Only Read One Romance Trope Forever… (opens the original)
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