Hey all! It’s time for Wednesday Links!
I have breaking news and that all of the new MMORPGs I was excited for have been derailed by picking up Final Fantasy XIV again. Oops! Don’t you hate it when that happens?
My audiobook hold for Perils of Pleasure just came in at the library. Did you know I’ve never read Julie Anne Long before? I inhaled the Maiden Lane series by Elizabeth Hoyt on audio a few years ago and I’ve been trying to find a series to marathon on audio for a while now. I figured this was a good option!
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Shana attended SteamyLit Con last week. Did you spot her?! She also let us know about the #23for23 challenge, which invites readers to read 23 books by BIPOC authors with BIPOC characters before the end of the year. There are reading lists, Instagram templates, and additional ways to engage.
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Sometimes people on the internet create cool things. This leads to a clock that will show you a song with the current time in its title. Yes, it does change in real time and it appears there are plans for different clocks in the future.
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Have you heard of the Mercury Stardust, the Trans Handy Ma’am? She has frequent home repair tips, but she’s also doing a country-wide book tour that kicked off this week.
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Nicolette sent this link our way! It’s Tor article of non-fiction written by popular sci-fi and fantasy authors, but the one she wanted to draw our attention to was called The Sad Bastard Cookbook.
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Don’t forget to share what cool or interesting 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!

I backed the Author Clock on Kickstarter and it’s coming soon! Might be of interest to the literary-minded!
The Sad Bastard Cookbook and also the book listed just above it in the article, Joanna Russ’ How to Suppress Women’s Writing, coincide with the Margaret Eby interview that Lyz Lenz posted yesterday in her Men Yell at Me newsletter (https://lyz.substack.com/), about feeding yourself when you are alone.
Linked in the interview is this depressing/infuriating essay by Claire Vaye Watkin, “On Pandering”: https://tinhouse.com/on-pandering/