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this is the correct answer.

i mean, insomuch that i rely on *other* folks shouting about the book, lol 🥰

anyway don't you think if i have 81 reviews on goodreads pre-release, i MIGHT COULD POSSIBLY *not* need a marketer?

i'm doing this shit MYSELF, thankyouverymuch

A spam email from a "marketer," likely entirely written by genai: "Dear E.M., 1816. A Royal Navy officer demoted to a ten-gun schooner and a peacetime career that feels like slow disappearance. A too-handsome ex-flame reappearing with a warning. And on the court-martial docket: an infamous pirate captain and anti-colonial weapons smuggler who is, it turns out, everything Everard ever truly wished to be. A hasty jailbreak. Philosophical debates. A pirate marriage proposal with no strings. And then, Everard and D'Arcy both commandeered to the Gulf of Mexico, where the Spanish crown looms and the question is no longer about legacy at all. E.M., that is one of the most thrillingly constructed romantic setups I have encountered in historical fiction. Black Sails meets Hamilton in a queer, poly, spicy 19th century romance built on real history and genuine anti-colonial stakes. The K.J. Charles, Cat Sebastian, and Courtney Milan comparables tell readers exactly the standard they are walking into, and those are three of the most loyal fanbases in all of historical romance. And 81 written reviews on a book that publishes March 17. Eleven days away. The community is not waiting. They are already here. My name is Susan, and I am a professional book marketer who specializes in helping queer historical romance authors turn early momentum into the kind of wide, lasting readership their books deserve. I would love to be the person who takes "Rears and Vices" into its launch window with the full strategic force this extraordinary debut deserves."

spam has gotten unfortunately good. this would nab a less online person, i feel.

(all genai, obviously pulled from goodreads, but whew!)

I'm giving away this hardcover copy of Tender Is The Storm, by Johanna Lindsey! Winner will be chosen on March 22. Directions for how to enter are at the link in bio 📚🧡

whoa whoa the fully-assed version?! sign me up

this tracks, though. men USED to know how to mend

😂 as for duluth, i think they are simply under the illusion we're all white middle-aged men of scandinavian descent.

i've had some good luck with men's banana republic stuff though!!

i'd suggest duluth, but their men's shirt stuff all has absurdly long everything. 😭

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What We Lose When We Gamify Reading At the dawn of 2026, I spent an irresponsible amount of time cataloguing what I did in 2025. There are so many ways to aggregate a personality these days: Letterboxd kept track of how many movies y…

"A book should make you stop mid-sentence and think, or stop to re-read the same paragraph because the words are so delicious. They should make you absorb each moment carefully, to get the complex picture that’s being presented to your brain."

Please, oh, please... i want to get back to this. 🫠

SJM going to carry publishing's entire Q4 this year, eh 🤭

i am trying again with rennet. lol. bastard cheese

update: time to ATTEMPT making cheese. this shit's harder than it looks. 😂

time to make some CHEESE

screencap from the above link: I have found this problem fairly endemic to the romcomantasy (eh? eh?) subgenre to which McCallum’s debut belongs. Oh, I am so tired of reading book after book where nobody has ever done a single thing wrong, or, even if they have, it was all a terrible misunderstanding. I cannot bear these characters with personalities as smooth as Ken dolls, who run dear little retail shops in interchangeable Fantasylands and placeless middle Americas, unbothered by problems of inventory or human frailty. I am going to chew right through the bars of my enclosure, and go rampaging all around the countryside, if I am called upon to read one more book where a character’s big secret finally comes out, and the other character is like: “No problem, babe, I know your heart, and I understand that, while you initially had a scheme to sabotage my dreams, you changed your mind over the course of our courtship. Due to the trust we have built together, I understand this perfectly without your having to explain it.”

real footage of a critic being driven slowly out of her mind

happy birthday!!

portrait of henry from kingdom come deliverance. he's sitting on a stone, surrounded by lush nature, a small waterfall in the back. he's looking off to the right side, his hands folded, only a piece of cloth covering his body

when you wash all of your clothes but forget they need time to dry

[ #art | #kcd ]

this is drop-dead gorgeous. my goodness.

Maybe you need some joy at the minute. HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS will deliver

The "this is fine" dog meme comic, but he's saying "so I have a book coming out".

*sigh*

Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

This isn’t a dig at the piece itself, which is excellent, but I don’t think the best way to replicate Heated Rivalry’s success is to just make “Heated Rivalry + insert sport.”

It’s to adapt more romance novels.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

when in doubt: henry

The original motto of Bsky

worth it, of course -- for the majority of it i paid humans for their livelihoods, which obviously i support in all cases.

but nevertheless expensive.

worth noting though that thus far i haven't found selfpub to be a hassle so much as really frickin expensive (and time-consuming) 😂