This guest review comes from Lisa! A longtime romance aficionado and frequent commenter to SBTB, Lisa is a queer Latine critic with a sharp tongue and lots of opinions. She frequently reviewed at All About Romance and Women Write About Comics, where...
Potent Pleasures Potent Pleasures by Eloisa James is $1.99! This was James’ debut historical romance. Many readers really seem to...
It’s Friday! WOOT. What are you up to this weekend? Have you noticed the way the light has changed since mid July? I really notice the seasons making a big fast change in August, and then in November. Not looking forward to November. Let’s chill in A...
It’s RT Rewind time again! This month, we’re going back to July 1992 to check out the new releases reviewed in…the 100th issue of Romantic Times magazine! Yup, the cover is memorable, and so are the book covers. We discuss: Cover models! Who would be...
Father Material Father Material by Alexis Hall is $1.99! This is book three in the London Calling series. I was meh on this one, b...
Love a sweet cinnamon roll hero and a funny wedding crasher? Check out my book review of How to Ruin a Wedding by Elba Luz to see what I think of this new fake dating romance.
I spent a (mostly) happy two and a half days reading this one. For context, with my current circumstances, finding enough reading time to finish a book that quickly is only possible if the book has DRIVEN me to find the time to read. That being said,...
Building a writing community can help writers overcome isolation, stay accountable, improve their craft, find feedback, and create meaningful professional relationships. Learn how to build a supportive writing community—online or in person—and why co...
Want to win editorial feedback and take your storyfrom good to great? Well, my writerly friend, you’re in luck! It’s time for our monthly Phenomenal First Pages contest. In this draw, you can win… Editorial feedback on your first page. This contest i...
Monthly ranking of the romance and romantasy books on The New York Times Combined Fiction Best Sellers list.
Hello ,Before you read today's installment of the Romance Your Launch program, please hit reply and let me know how close you are to publishing your romance novel. Are you in the imagining stage, drafting stage, editing stage, or preparing to launch...
Hello ,Bet you didn't notice (until perhaps last week), but I spent the last 8 weeks helping my mom pack up her life of 80+ years and move from Quebec to British Columbia. Funny thing is that I have very distinct memory from 30+ years ago of saying (...
Hello !I'm trying out something new—sharing advanced reader copies (ARCs) of books written by members of Author Ever After.Up first is Kit Sutherland's debut release, Eternal Knights. This book features:Ancient magical beings in the modern human worl...
Hello ,Romance book cover design guide for self-published authorsYou probably don’t want to hear this, but your feelings about what looks good on a book cover are almost beside the point. That’s not a criticism of your taste. It’s just how genre fict...
Hello ,ISBNs for elf-published authors: what you need to knowBefore you upload a single file to Amazon KDP or IngramSpark (my personal publishing nemesis, more on that another day), you need to make one decision that affects every version of your boo...