Welcome back to Wednesday Links!
We are rushing right up to Thanksgiving. I think my partner and I are going to do an “all sides” Thanksgiving again. It was so much fun last year eating mashed potatoes and stuffing and green beans.
My partner was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in January, so if you have any good gluten-free Thanksgiving dishes, please let me know!
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Laura sent a couple related links in!
Laura: A romance bookstore near me, Friends to Lovers in Old Town Alexandria, had to close due to a fire just 3 days after their grand opening. I didn’t even get a chance to visit it yet.
The story is here including a link to their GoFundMe. It’s at 80% of its goal already, but I’m sure could use all the help it can get. Friends to Lovers lost much of its inventory and will have to find a new space to rent in a very expensive area.
Note: It looks like they updated their fundraising goal after a full assessment of the damage.
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Starting December 1st, Author Jae is once again hosting a sapphic romance advent calendar! How fun!
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Expect the fictional Critical Role romantasy novel Tusk of Love to be made real! The cover is very cute and I wonder if there are enough “fictional romance novels made into real romance novels” to do a post. I know there was the Jane the Virgin one and one from Dragon Age.
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Sarah: The Novel Refuge is a volunteer bookshop in Laurel supporting refugee resettlement in Maryland. They do have an online shop that sells genre themed book bundles!
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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!
Additional FRNMiRRN:
The Carry On series
Possibly the Castle TV show tie ins? Although maybe that’s more mystery or thriller, idk I never read them.
Casanova LLC.
When Julia Whelan was writing “Thank You For Listening” (two audiobook narrators fall in love as they record an audiobook), she wrote a few snippets of the fictional audiobook for some of the scenes. And eventually wrote the whole book.
(Note that if you look at the book listing for Casanova LLC, the authors are listed as Julia Whelan and June French. June French is the author of the then-fictional audiobook in “Thank You For Listening”.)
Choir! Choir! Choir! does Taylor Swift. Always fun to watch a lot of people singing together.
Karen at soupaddict dot com is an all sides Thanksgiving person and her recipes are delicious. Highly recommended, also many are gluten free.