Hello Hump Day! How is everyone doing? I’m in the midst of an amazing book, so I’ve currently lost all sense of time. Here are some good things, many of which might hurt your wallet!
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We’ve picked a date for our next Book Club Chat! The book we’ve picked (in case you missed it) is Radiance by Grace Draven and the date of the chat is June 28th at 8pm EDT. We’ll post a link to the chat that afternoon. We hope to see some of you there!
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Awesome Kickstarter alert! This is one that I’ve personally backed and needs a little help reaching its goal. It’s called Two Scoops: An Ice Cream Shop Dating Sim!
Two Scoops is a fresh, new visual novel + dating sim about love and ice cream! It’s the story of a big girl in a small town who finds romance at her local ice cream shop.
In this game, you take on the role of a young woman who has just started a new job at a local, family-owned ice cream shop. She’s taken on a big responsibility, too: two of the employees are going away soon, leaving her to fill their shoes! With only a week remaining before their departure, the situation seems tricky for our protagonist, but she is determined to show that she’s the right one for the job, all while growing closer to her co-workers along the way.
It has roughly two days left!
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The Bawdy Bookworm box is taking preorders for their July box. I’ve gotten a sneak peek and it’s really amazing.
SMARTB gets free shipping in the US of $6 off International shipping for Bawdy Bookworms. And, if you’ve forgotten, this box grabbed the attention of Elyse’s cat, Dewey.
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The Book Voyagers put together a list of Single Parents in Romance Books if that’s your catnip! They also have a helpful legend and mention common tropes.
iGo Keyjuice Keyring
The iGo is an itty bitty tool that unfolds to one USB connection, plus a USB and a USB Micro, so you can plug your phone into your laptop, or into a portable battery. Excellent for tiny emergency kits, too.
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Thanks to Reader Cleo for a heads up about this Riptide Publishing sale, where trans, genderqueer, intersex, and ace romances this week are 50% off.
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More sales! Humble Bundle has a Best of Boom comics sale going on and it’s full of great selections, including Lumberjanes and Steven Universe. What I like about Humble Bundle is that you can pay as little or as much as you want. Plus, you can decide how much of what you pay goes to charity, Humble Bundle, and the comics creators. I highly recommend the site and they do this for video games and books, as well.
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At RT17 in Atlanta this year, we met Luda Gogolushko, the founder of Includas Publishing. She put together a 20-minute vlog on her time there. We were lucky enough to be asked to be in the video, so you can see some of us between the 6:00-8:00 minute mark!
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Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
Here’s a great Kickstarter (which I backed): the Component Collector, “A modular tile system for organizing board game tokens and components. Use with your entire game library. Custom. Magnetic. Elegant.” And there’s a wide variety of woods and shapes! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dogmight/the-component-collector?ref=nav_search
A couple recs for the Riptide sale
– Labyrinth by Alex Beecroft – historical queer romance set in ancient Crete. It explores the myth of Minos from the Minoans point of view and it has a genderqueer inventor protag.
– Blank Space by Cass Lenox – mm romance with ace protag. Reviewed by SB Sarah
Dang it dang it!!!! I’ll be riding shotgun on a car trip from Alabama to Nebraska during the book club chat!!!
I guess instead of having a glass of wine during my first book club chat I’ll be having a cow trying to get good reception in my phone.
Rats.
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