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Why does this have to be evergreen, y’all?? Though maybe I shouldn’t complain, because it makes them super easy to identify.

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 4h

I have an opening for a new client October 19th. If you'd like to claim it, email me! www.lianaedits.com #LianaEdits #Writing #AmWriting #Editing

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 8h

I don't think I ever got around to putting my trade reviews for Love Never Dies in one place, but a fake movie poster is a great way to do it. This past week has been a whirlwind and I'm so glad the book is out in the world (and I need to keep telling you all about it). bookshop.org/p/books/love...

"Smart and passionately argued, this is a trenchant ode to all things scary and steamy." - Publishers Weekly
"Cole's conversational tone and focused interest yield a work that reads like an illuminating podcast episode." - Library Journal
"An authoritative and accessible journey through horror films that feature romance, written in a conversational tone, with the goal of helping others find connections they might not have seen. This book will ensnare legions of romance and horror fans." - Booklist

LOVE NEVER DIES
ROMANCE IN HORROR MOVIES

EMMA COLE BEACON PRESS
OUT NOW

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 05/10/2026

Good news! I only deleted the things I meant to and nothing else. The filesystem is safe… for now.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 05/10/2026

Not me yolo using sudo rm -rf on production.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/10/2026

Sorry I’m not gonna do idea landlords discourse today. You want authors to not get paid? Cool go totally rework society so that we also don’t have to pay for things.

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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 05/10/2026

Reminder for Colorado Voters. 💙

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 05/10/2026

It’s finally cool enough to open the windows and use the attic fan—while the sun is up!—and that’s my favorite time of year. 😍

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 05/10/2026

Yeah, it’s overcast here, too, which adds to the coziness. Fingers crossed your temps drop soon and fall arrives!

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 05/10/2026

This weekend is the first weekend it’s felt like fall, and now I want a cozy sweater and a bowl of soup. For reference, it’s 76F. 😂😭 Compared to 100, it’s cold!

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 03/10/2026

Graveyard Keeper 2 is in desperate need of better documentation. It’s got SO MUCH going on, but it’s not obvious what half of the stuff does, which means I have to google and hope.

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Sara “Blade” Reine @smreine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

FREE BOOK: A dark fantasy novel about dying empire, forbidden desire, and how much it hurts to change. dl.bookfunnel.com/45kvhoa2x1 ⚔️ protag is hapless twink ⚔️ surprisingly steamy ⚔️ looks like m/m until it's m/x ⚔️ GoT-style "nobody is safe" ⚔️ viciously hates empire ⚔️ complicated women

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 02/10/2026

This one is for you, readers, and I hope you love it. <3 The text: This one’s for you, readers. May your rage topple empires, protect the vulnerable, and make fascists quake in their boots. - Preorder: www.jessiemihalik.com/book/roses-a...

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Roses & Stone

Riela and Garrick’s story concludes in the second book of the Silver & Blood duology, coming December 1, 2026! Earl...

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Time for #FridayFling! A Waltz of Sinister Import is out today on my Patreon - & arriving everywhere else in 12 days! - so here's a quick taste. Subscribe to my Patreon as a Dragon Ruler to read it today: patreon.com/stephanieburgis Or preorder it now: books2read.com/waltzSinister #romancelandia

The cover of A Waltz of Sinister Import, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a pair of late nineteenth-century dancing slippers hanging over the title and a bat with outstretched wings underneath the author's name. Framing the cover's text are branches with golden leaves. Above, beside, and below that cover image is this snippet of text: “You needn’t bother to restrain yourself for me,” she murmured. “After all, no one else would ever know if we—”
“No.” Lord Riven’s throat flexed above his cravat, but he opened his eyes to meet her gaze full-on with an erotically telltale shimmer of red veiling his light brown irises. “I’ve spent centuries restoring my tarnished honor. I won’t discard it now.”
Straightening his broad shoulders, he lifted his glass once more, this time as if making a toast. “My love, your curiosity and courage will always be an inspiration, but remember: you have saved me from my solitude and given me the world. No matter how desperately I may wish to give in on this matter, I cannot respond to your generosity by treating you with anything but the greatest of respect—regardless of any witnesses.”
“Hmm.” This time, Margaret’s tone was decidedly displeased.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 02/10/2026

Today’s #FridayFling snippet is from POLARIS RISING! Being forced to rely on her brand-new, enemy-of-my-enemy “friend” in order to escape a mercenary ship doesn’t exactly go smoothly for Ada—until it does. 😘 Prompt: “world” First chapters + buy links: miha.li/PR #Romancelandia #Books

We lurched sideways with a loud curse from Loch. An energy bolt passed close enough that I could feel its heat. The world spun and jostled as Loch moved quickly. He stopped and dumped me off of his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. I hit hard on my left side. Pain lanced up my arm, intense enough to bring tears to my eyes.

“You said there were eight mercs,” Loch snarled in my ear.

“There were eight!”

“Now there are eleven.”

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have two entries for the #FridayFling prompt of "world." From Third Shift, my paranormal romantic suspense duology. They probably illustrate why the books had no traction when they released in 2021. #romancelandia Big Bad Wolf: books2read.com/u/3kMp6K Pretty Little Lion: books2read.com/u/mgMn00

A square graphic with the Friday Fling hashtag and prompt at the top and my Big Bad Wolf by Suleikha Snyder byline at the bottom. In the middle is the following excerpt: It was depressing to put it into words, but from a purely PR standpoint, they were infinitely lucky that a decent percentage of the country still believed Nazis were bad. That Joe Peluso had kind of done a public service by taking out guys who sported Wolfsangel and swastika tattoos and sold young girls into sexual servitude. There was, of course, still a percentage who thought Joe’s victims were “very fine people.” Very fine people who had cats and helped old white ladies across the street when they weren’t stuffing teenagers into shipping containers and yelling slurs at anyone brown. God bless America.
Theoretically, you weren’t supposed to put the victims on trial. But more often than not, that was the job. Arguing why certain people deserved to live and others deserved to die. Sometimes you just had to park morality at the door and look at the shades of gray. It didn’t help that the world had changed in the past few years. Practicing law in America, practicing medicine, practicing basic humanity…none of it was like it had been when Neha was growing up.

A square graphic with the Friday Fling hashtag and prompt at the top and my Pretty Little Lion by Suleikha Snyder byline at the bottom. In the middle is the following excerpt text: It was no longer a good world for vampires. It had never been particularly a good world for anyone. Some would say that everything had changed for America in 2016, but Tavi Estrada had lived long enough to know that history was doomed to repeat itself, and humans were doomed to self-destruct. It was just that the speed with which they descended to hell had quadrupled in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Nuclear weapons, manmade diseases, global fascism. Countries that had once seemed like bastions of reason, cradles of democracy, had fallen one after the other, like dominoes. All because of human greed, human ambition. Human belief in their own superiority. Even the revelation that they weren’t superior, that more powerful beings existed on Earth, had not tempered that arrogance.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today's #FridayFling prompt word is "world," and Cal isn't lusting here. Nope, not at all.

"Hmm." Jess leaned closer to the painting, examining it again.
Her intense focus, the way she was biting her lower lip as she concentrated--it wasn't the worst look in the world, at least if preppy assistant professors were your type.
Thank God Cal wasn't susceptible to that at all.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 02/10/2026

Trade reviews are starting to come in for ROSES & STONE, which is always nerve racking, but Library Journal liked it!! 🎉 I can’t believe it comes out in less than two months—which gives you just enough time to preorder! ;) www.jessiemihalik.com/book/roses-a...

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Roses & Stone

Riela and Garrick’s story concludes in the second book of the Silver & Blood duology, coming December 1, 2026! Earl...

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 01/10/2026

Every Friday, share a #FridayFling snippet from your WIP or published work. :) This week’s prompt is WORLD! You don’t have to match it exactly, just go with vibes. And if it’s published, drop a link in the post or a reply so people can find it! #Romancelandia #Books

#FridayFling. Every Friday, post a snippet of your work that includes the prompt (or something close).

October 2, 2026’s prompt is: WORLD.

Snippets from all genres welcome. Remember to use alt text if you post an image!

Questions? Ask @jessiemihalik.com on Bluesky!

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 01/10/2026

I got the updated email from the Anthropic settlement, but my allocation didn’t change. My books weren’t in dispute before and (thankfully) they still aren’t. HC failed in many ways—thanks for not registering some of my books!—but at least they didn’t try a money grab for my share.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 01/10/2026

October is starting off right with the first real rain we’ve gotten in months. But ACL starts tomorrow, lol, and it’s going to be a mudfest. Good luck out there, friends. At least it's cooler?

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 01/10/2026

OMG, it’s October today. WTF.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 01/10/2026

I would like to launch these slop spammers—and the slop machines that make it possible—directly into the sun.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 01/10/2026

I avoid book review sites ON PURPOSE. Shoving that in my face (even Books & Broadswords, which is rated pretty well!), is incredibly annoying.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 01/10/2026

Today’s book slop spam includes the goodreads/amazon/?? rating of one of my books, and thanks, I hate it.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 01/10/2026

Congratulations to both of you!!! 🎉 This has been fun to follow and you raised so much for a great cause. 💕

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 30/09/2026

This all circles back to how people seemingly think AI can do every job EXCEPT THEIRS, because THEY have SKILL. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 30/09/2026

Romance authors can easily hold their own against authors of any other genre, fancy litfic included, fight me.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 30/09/2026

Everyone (coughJCOcough) is so quick to throw romance under the bus, but do you know how much skill it takes to make an interesting and compelling book when you already know the ending??? Infinite!!

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 30/09/2026

As far as airports go, SFO is a pretty good one—except for the perpetual delays, lolsob.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 30/09/2026

Cheering for you!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 30/09/2026

Graveyard Keeper 2 has SO MUCH going on. My brother reminded me the first game was the same, but I don’t remember it, lol. I’m just one person! I’m going to need a whole lot more zombie minions.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 30/09/2026

I have Faith by George Michael giving me the worst earworm right now. Where did I even hear it?? Listening to the whole thing then something else to try to dislodge it. Fleetwood Mac was the next thing Apple Music played and I’m not mad about it!

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 30/09/2026

I wasn’t paying *that* close of attention (maybe bc I was dazed by the mustache), but I’m pretty sure dude had a wife and kids who were just like 🤷🏻‍♀️😂🤷🏻‍♀️

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 30/09/2026

You think I’m joking, and yet! They did a segment on it. Apparently it started during Covid, he and his friends grew “crazy mustaches” and he just kept his.

A photo of the TV with the mustache man in a blue shirt.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 30/09/2026

Watching House Hunters, as one does in hotels, and this dude has a legit villain mustache. Like tipped up pointy ends and teensy under lip goatee and the whole thing.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 29/09/2026

It was definitely tiny and hidden way down in subsection 39 and so hard to see through the stars in my eyes over getting the contract in the first place, lol. I GET TO WRITE!!! 🎉🎉🎉 . . . . (p.s. and also do everything else, you’re welcome)

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 29/09/2026

So much of this authoring gig is not actually writing, the thing I love to do. 😭 What do you mean I’m also publicity and marketing and admin and business owner and web dev and project manager and and and...

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 29/09/2026

I’m enjoying it so far! I’m kind of lost, but I just keep fumbling forward and it’s working okay, lol. I just got my first zombie minion, so that should help.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 29/09/2026

I started Graveyard Keeper 2 last night, and I can’t tell if the story is connected to the first game or not, bc I can’t remember the first game. 😭😭😭 Also, the tutorial is a little underbaked for someone who forgot all of game one, but I’m making progress! Slowly.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 28/09/2026

I’m convinced hell is hotel wifi that randomly goes down every 5-10 minutes for 30 seconds - 2 minutes. Will this post? No one knows!

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 28/09/2026

Same! Now I always bring a coat regardless of what the weather app claims.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 27/09/2026

And here I thought it was a nefarious scheme to sell more “I ❤️ SF” sweatshirts. 😂

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 27/09/2026

San Francisco, why are you always so cold????

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 27/09/2026

Second time’s the charm! 🎉 But there was a LONG line of flights waiting to takeoff.

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 27/09/2026

I know it’s not uncommon, but I think this is the first time it’s happened on one of my flights… that time we tried to land in Austin during a hurricane notwithstanding (and then they routed us to DFW).

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