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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

the town can tell a newcomer by what they apologise for. locals apologise for the heat. newcomers apologise for asking. #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

every one of these books ends with her still in town. that was a choice. the horror in Sinmoore Springs is a thing you live near, and living near it is the whole genre as far as I'm concerned. #MonsterRomance #BookSky #IndieAuthor

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

genuine question. if you could keep one of these in your house, which one, and would you tell anybody. I already know most of you are picking the cube. #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

if the diner in Sinmoore Springs is shut at noon you go home. that's the rule and it comes without an explanation. it's been shut at noon four times in thirty years. everybody who went home is still here. #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

the next By Night book is a gothic one. a stone thing in a basement, a grimoire that got opened, and a woman who negotiates. it's in edits. it's the longest thing I've written and the slowest burn. #MonsterRomance #BookSky #IndieAuthor

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"I had wanted to matter to a place. I did." from Bride of the Banshee, out now on KU #SapphicRomance #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

cheapest way into Sinmoore Springs is the Drift Inn story, which is free and takes an hour. if the town works on you, there are six more on KU waiting. #MonsterRomance #KindleUnlimited #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

the face I make reading a wikipedia page about seal anatomy at eleven at night is a face I keep to myself. my partner has seen it. several times now. #MonsterRomance #BookSky #IndieAuthor

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

seven books, one desert town, and a rule that every one of them stands alone. pick whichever monster you're in the mood for. the town holds them all and it holds no grudges. #MonsterRomance #KindleUnlimited #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"I haven't been remembered yet. I've just been known. And those aren't the same thing." from Wrecked by the Reaper, out now on KU #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

most slashers put you behind the girl running. this one puts you in the seat of the girl who booked the cabin on purpose. she's the one with the plan. she's also the one who's wrong. mybook.to/finalgirlscomefirst #HorrorRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

it's a book about a woman who's spent years being the reason her girlfriend eats, and a town that looks at the arrangement and asks where they'd like to park. mybook.to/gelatinous-cube #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sinmoore Springs still prints a phone book. it's thin and it's mostly accurate. there's a listings page at the back that the county has asked about twice and been told it's a printing error twice. #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Some things you maintained out of habit, others because you learned what you were maintaining." from Last Call at the Drift Inn, free to read #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Cara nursed in that house for six years and got very good at holding two things at once. she'd only ever stopped doing it to herself. sapphic, dark, ends warm. mybook.to/bride-of-the-banshee #SapphicRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

people ask if the endings are happy and the honest answer is that they're earned. she gets the thing. the thing costs what it costs. everyone in this town pays full price. #MonsterRomance #BookSky #IndieAuthor

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I sat on the bathroom floor in a starving cube of my own girlfriend and I let her hold me." from Gently Consumed by the Gelatinous Cube, out now on KU #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

the deal was simple. she outlasts him, she lives. he'd won every round of his existence to that point and had to improvise the rest. what he does instead is come back. once a year. every year. mybook.to/wreckedbythereaper #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Death offers you a game. you win, you live. you lose, it's tonight. do you play, or do you ask what he gets out of it first. #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I name the women before I know anything else about them and I've got it right every time. the monsters take weeks. half of them end up with no name at all, which turns out to be the correct answer. #MonsterRomance #BookSky #IndieAuthor

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"I wanted to feel different. I thought I would feel different." from Final Girls Come First, out now on KU #HorrorRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

the noticeboard outside the Sinmoore Springs laundromat has a lost cat, a guitar for sale, and one card that says CALL BEFORE DARK with a number under it and that's the whole card. it's been up eleven years. #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

someone asked why the town's in a desert and the honest answer is that a desert lets you watch it come from a long way off. and it still gets to you. #MonsterRomance #BookSky #IndieAuthor

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"They left wanting. Nobody in this house does." from Bride of the Banshee, out now on KU #SapphicRomance #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

the selkie rules say if you hold the skin you hold him. Del had the skin inside a week and it turned out to be the least interesting thing about the arrangement. mybook.to/soakedbytheselkie #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

there's a labyrinth under Sinmoore Springs and the town has decided that's a zoning matter. Lauren went down there anyway. book one, and the one people start with. mybook.to/milkingtheminotaur #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

the pharmacy on the main street in Sinmoore Springs fills three prescriptions that live only on her own list. the pharmacist is fine. she's been doing it since 1988 and she has a system. #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"The trouble with dying is that it is considerably more interesting than any of us are prepared for." from Wrecked by the Reaper, out now on KU #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

you know the thing that kills a monster romance? getting to the monster too fast. the wanting has to have somewhere to sit first. I give it about a third of the book. #MonsterRomance #BookSky #IndieAuthor

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

an innkeeper who's been maintaining the same building longer than anyone in town knows, and a blizzard that shuts the road for the night. Last Call at the Drift Inn is free. start there. #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

hardest one to write was the gelatinous cube, because she had to land as a full character with a personality and a mood and a way of arguing, working with pressure and light. #MonsterRomance #BookSky #IndieAuthor

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the veil thins twice a year and the town has a word for it that the tourist board keeps asking them to drop. the diner runs a special. the special is good. #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Forty-one years and you dissolve into nothing. Even by my own philosophical standards, this seemed like a shitty deal." from Wrecked by the Reaper, out now on KU #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sinmoore Springs has three rules and you pick them all up in week one. pay your tab. leave the basement door alone. if the diner's shut at noon, go home. #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Stellar," she said to her reflection. "Really dignified work." from Last Call at the Drift Inn, free to read #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Stellar," she said to her reflection. "Really dignified work." from Last Call at the Drift Inn, free to read #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"He's going to get stabbed tonight. It's going to be quick. I'm not a monster." from Final Girls Come First, out now on KU #HorrorRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

she had a year, a cabin, six names and a knife in every room she'd need one. what she had no plan for was the thing in the woods having its own weekend booked. mybook.to/finalgirlscomefirst #HorrorRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

you wake up in Sinmoore Springs and there's a door in your rental that arrived overnight. be honest. are you opening it before coffee or after. #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"I did not forgive her. I want to be clear about this." from Bride of the Banshee, out now on KU #SapphicRomance #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

two of them, one cooler, and a route that only goes forward because every town they leave has a reason to remember them. then a library in a desert town has the answer already filed. mybook.to/gelatinous-cube #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

one rule I set myself early. the monster stays a monster to the end, and she gets herself out. takes both of the usual exits off the table and you'd be surprised how much room that leaves. #MonsterRomance #BookSky #IndieAuthor

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

the house on Carrow Lane has been running a reputation for a century and everyone credits the ghost. turns out the ghost was the soft one. Cara was the one holding the leash. mybook.to/bride-of-the-banshee #SapphicRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

the jokes in these books do actual work. a woman can be terrified and still find her situation absurd, and holding both is most of what makes her read like a person. #MonsterRomance #BookSky #IndieAuthor

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

best message I've had about these books was four words and said the cube one made her cry on a bus. I think about that woman on the bus a lot. #MonsterRomance #BookSky #IndieAuthor

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Tiffany's haunted the house on Vance Street for a century. Cara nursed in it for six years. one of them was in charge the whole time and it took them both a while to work out which. mybook.to/bride-of-the-banshee #SapphicRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

you get dropped into Sinmoore Springs tomorrow. room booked, week to fill. what are you going looking for first. correct answer involves the diner. #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"The dying took less time than the buying." from Bride of the Banshee, out now on KU #SapphicRomance #MonsterRomance #BookSky

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Marsha T. Roma @mtrauma.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

the standard books run about the length of a long evening. that's on purpose. By Night runs about the length of a bad night. also on purpose. #MonsterRomance #HorrorRomance #BookSky

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