Cara N. Delaney 💖💜💙

It's the height of injustice that after getting my blood stolen, running four hours of errands, and weeding for an hour, I STILL have to do my regular work.

If like. Idk. Half a million of you could buy one book each, I could take a nap now instead. That'd be nice. Can we get that done? 😂

I'm other words, It's doing what romance has done for publishing since forever.

Here you go, everyone can use this one (it's signed by an authority)

The book cover for the romantic fantasy novel "Of Potions and Honey" by author Cara N. Delaney. The colour scheme is earthy autumn colours with a warm reddish-brown background. A bubbling cauldron is in the centre, surrounded by foliage, flowers, and mushrooms. Hints of trees are framing the upper half. Additional decorative ornaments are framing the title and author name. Cover design by Miblart

When Mira inherits her late uncle's potion shop in sleepy Emberglen, she decides to follow in his footsteps.

Soon, she begins to build a home, forges new relationships, and finds herself on a quest to save this dream from Big Business.

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The cover of the book "Blade of the Crown" by author Cara N. Delaney. The background is the ocean, choppy with waves. The sky is grey and dark blue with storm clouds. Silver ornaments decorate the corners and the top and bottom edges. In the foreground is a golden crown in a classic shape. A slender sword with an ornamental cross guard goes through it vertically. The title is written in a silver, slightly translucent font, with one point of the crown filling the "A" of "blade". The author's name is in white at the bottom. Cover design by Covercreator.uk

❤️ f/f romance
👑 a princess struggling to feel worthy
⚔️ a royal guard with grand ambitions
🏝️ an ambush that strands them on a deserted island
☁️ a strange fog that thwarts their escape attempts
🗡️ secrets that could cost them everything

tinyurl.com/bladeofthecrown

#romantasy #sapphfic 🌈📚💙

I like this method though. It allows for more detail, and a lot of the bits I'd normally add in while writing the actual draft are already making it into the outline so I can fiddle with pacing, setup and payoff, that sort of thing. Takes longer, but probably saves time editing, so it's a wash?

I've gone back to my older style of outlining for the trilogy (prose synopsis instead of scene-by-scene in bullet points), and uhh, you can really tell it's been a while. I keep double-entering between paragraphs, and I have to remind myself to use full sentences 😂

Today is International Women's Day! Femme up your TBR with this bundle!

Features No Love in LA where an angry metal singer, who's trying to do better but still getting in trouble falls in love with a stern goth enby 🖤

*end date 3/11, the previous post has a typo.
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Whedon being revealed as a creep just messed with so many fandoms, especially because he's the kind of guy who puts his very noticeable fingerprints all over his projects.
At this point I just kind of expect any high-profile dudes to be kind of not great, but I really wish I didn't have to.

It always felt like it *should* have been very much my thing, all the ingredients are there, but I couldn't get past all of the yikes 🫠

Preaching simplicity, austerity, and a return to past glory in order to save society, now where have I heard that before...

Now, let's not be too mean to poor Joe, after all, everyone was eating with chopsticks out of take-out containers! So Chinese! Stop whining about the absence of Asian characters already, geez!

...yes, I watched like four episodes after a friend pestered me into it. Yes, I'm still salty about it.

BATTLEFIELD 6 WAS THE BEST-SELLING GAME OF 2025

IT SOLD OVER 20 MILLION COPIES

This industry is a fucking slaughterhouse that destroys art and human creativity

International Women's Day graphic

Happy International Women's Day folks.

If you're looking for books by awesome women authors, let me point you in the direction of the Itch bundle my book, The Reckoning, is part of.

32 books for $32
Something for everyone

It's a steal.

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#BookSky

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You know when it's late at night and you're like "oh, I should do this thing tomorrow" but you don't write it down because surely you'll remember?

Write that shit down >.<

The scammers are relentless.
Please understand, no book club is EVER going to proactively seek you out. It is natural to hope so but that is not how the world works.
They are NOT looking through millions of new books searching for your novel when they haven't even read Northanger Abbey yet

Postwoman Jane Preston

“How is it that you live, and what is it you do?”
That quote from William Wordsworth was brought to mind when I saw this photo of postwoman Jane Preston. She served Cockerham, Lancashire for 50 years until her death in 1944.
#InternationalWomensDay

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If you've never heard Killing in the Name played on a shamisen, now you gotta. It's the law or something.

Wonderful breakdown!!! The scariest part of these misrepresented stats is that they drive they idea that these beliefs are common and normal, which itself makes people more likely to align with them!!! It's a blight on every journalist who reported this uncritically

There should have been a follow-up question: If you do want kids, do you also want to do the work that comes with having kids?

Because of those 57% of dudes, a whooole lot of them very likely feel pretty "Ehhhh?" about that second question.

Once again women are asked to solve the problems that men created.

I am shocked. Shocked! That "just make things fair for the mothers" has not caught on. That would be too easy.

1) ...maybe...

2) Fix it in post. Just slap [ADD DESCRIPTION] in there an call it a day, that's a Future Me problem.

Mary Shelley: i consent
Percy Shelley: i consent
Lord Byron: i consent
Gravestone of Mary Wollstonecraft: isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

Look at this fancy book, that's a special edition all right!

A promotional graphic for the romantasy book "A Melody in the Deep" by author Cara N. Delaney. On the left is the following text: When you’re an honest businesswoman just trying to make a living at sea, but your crew fishes a beautiful woman out of the water who refuses to tell you who she is, and soon that’s going to be the least of your problems... The text is accompanied by the cover on the right. It shows a mermaid's tail, dark blue with a yellow pattern, against a turquoise and blue underwater background.Below the cover is a URL: tinyurl.com/melody-deep, as well as the information that the book is free in Kindle Unlimited.

A mermaid fleeing an arranged marriage. A captain seeking fame and fortune. When Keola's and Anaar's paths intertwine, it becomes clear that their choices will not be without consequences. A storm approaches – and they will need each other to survive.

👉️ tinyurl.com/melody-deep

🌈📚💛⚔️ - #sapphfic

-vs complete edition, where King explains - very briefly - why he made the initial cuts, and why he added certain things back in but not others. Insightful stuff, especially now that I publish my own work.

Also, Stephen? What kind of bizarre version of Hansel and Gretel did you read as a child?! oO

Started reading King's The Stand again. Last time was... I wanna say fifteen years ago now? Maybe longer. It's interesting how differently I remember some things. Not necessarily in terms of what happened, but how I feel about it now vs back then.

My copy also has a foreword about the abridged-

I'll take "things you only say when you've artistically stagnated and your only joke is making fun of people less privileged than you" for $100!

A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

Hot parenting tip: When you have a small child who is very mad and crying at the top of their lungs, simply tell them that a more appropriate outlet for anger is throwing bricks at fascists.

Instant silence 😌