Links: Cats, Fanfiction, & More

Workspace with computer, journal, books, coffee, and glasses.Happy Wednesday! In Boston, Monday was Patriot’s Day and my schedule is all thrown off, but big congrats to all the runners! I’m turning 30 tomorrow and tonight I’m celebrating with pizza, beer, and ice cream. I’ll admit it; it’s a pretty good Wednesday. Hope you all are having a great week and, if not, fingers crossed it gets better.

Have you heard about Love Africa Press? They’re a relatively new publisher that “celebrates all things African in romantic fiction.” The covers on the site are flippin’ gorgeous. If you want to give them a try, they also have some free reads.

Publishers Weekly had an interesting article about Netflix’s push to develop more adaptations from books. While I am all for it, Netflix’s offerings seem to skew heavy on the YA side. I’ve enjoyed what they’ve produced so far, but I’d like to see romance get some love too.

There are meet-cutes in romance, but have you heard of a meet-hate? It makes sense and I don’t know why it never occurred to me before. There are a handful of romance recommendations for you over at Frolic.Media!

I love fanfic. I used to write it, though now I primarily read it. Tor.com counts the ways that fanfiction can help us all become better writers:

Practical Exercises

One of the things I love most about writing fic is the option of writing from prompts—give me one or two characters, a setting, and a situation, and I will write you a story right now. It’s like wind-sprints for your brain, and it is tiring but also exhilarating, and the more you do it the easier it gets. It works in the realm of original fiction just as well—if you’re writing within a universe you’ve already invented, you are doing precisely the same work as if you’re writing prompt fanfic, with the added benefit that nobody can accuse you of being out of character.

Shoutout to all my fanfic writers out there, as sometimes it’s a thankless task! Keep going!

Enjoy this Twitter thread of cats being naughty, little scamps!

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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!

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  1. Katie C. says:

    Happy Birthday Amanda!

    And I love some of those covers from Love Africa Press – some of those should qualify for Cover Awe!

  2. EC Spurlock says:

    Happy birthday Amanda!

  3. Escapeologist says:

    Happy birthday and thank you for the cats!

  4. Darlynne says:

    Your birthday-eve meal sounds perfect. Enjoy all the days, thank you for everything you do.

  5. Mary C says:

    Happy Birthday, Amanda!

  6. NomadiCat says:

    Happy Birthday, Amanda!

    In fun things from the internet, Ilona Andrews posted the first chapter of their new Hidden Legacy book, Sapphire Flames: http://www.ilona-andrews.com/read-first-chapter-of-sapphire-flames/

    It’s so dang good I honest to god screamed when I realized it’s not available until AUGUST.

  7. Mintaka14 says:

    Thank you for the link to the fanfiction article. It was a good reminder and a bit of validation that I need right now.

  8. Carla says:

    Happy birthday, Amanda! I’m a long-time reader of this blog but rarely post, so I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank you – your contributions are one of the reasons that I read SBTB every day.

  9. Amanda says:

    Thank you all for the birthday wishes and kind words!

  10. Deianira says:

    I’m late to the party, but still, happy 30th, Amanda!

  11. denise says:

    Happy Birthday!

  12. LauraL says:

    Happy Birthday Amanda!

    Back in the day, I used to say “over the hill” for 30, but now it’s more like 90 years old. 🙂 Wishing you all the best today and in the year ahead.

  13. TN says:

    Happy Birthday Amanda! The 30’s are better than the 20’s, or at least one knows herself/himself better and feels more agency and self-determination. The work you and SBTB does lifts us all. Thank you. Best Wishes to you! Cheers!

  14. Bec says:

    As much as I’m excited for the Grisha series adaption by Netflix, I agree that Romance adaptions are severely lacking. And I don’t want them to group them in with Hallmark, who cut out all the sex.

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