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Holiday Gift Guide 2025: White Elephant, Secret Santa, and Yankee Trader Gifts

You know those $10- or $20-or-less gift exchanges? We've got suggestions. So does Elvis.

Gift Guide 2022: Let’s Spoil the Pets!

Gift Guide: We Love to Spoil the pets!

Another gift guide? Roll to find out! This week:  we love our pets a lot – and we love to get them gifts! Thank you, Amanda! Want to see? Just click that image above or click right here, and come craft with us! And if you’d like to browse some more, we have a complete Stuff We Like archive, including past Gift Guides and other posts of our favorite items.

Books On Sale

YA Fantasy, Contemporary Romance, & More

Books on Sale: My Lady Notorious by Jo Beverley & More

My Lady Notorious by Jo Beverley is $3.99! This is the first book in the Malloren series and features a heroine who disguises herself as a man. I feel like this is one of those books that readers have really fond memories of reading. Do you? I’m ashamed to say that I haven’t read any Beverley titles, but I’ve always been curious about this one.

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Help A Bitch Out - SOLVED!

HaBO: Baseball Player Goes to Ireland/Scotland for Rehab

This HaBO comes from Sophie, who wants to find this contemporary romance: I’m hoping you can help me find a book I’m dying to re-read. The book is a contemporary romance about a pro (or ex pro??) baseball player who goes to a remote island in Ireland (or maybe it’s Scotland??) to recover from his alcohol (or maybe drug?) addiction. He falls for the woman who is replacing the local doctor. At one point they … Continue reading HaBO: Baseball Player Goes to Ireland/Scotland for Rehab

Guest Post: The Library Advisory Board, or How I Didn’t Throw Away My Shot

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Crystal Anne With An E comes to us from a sunny clime, though she is an indoor cat that prefers to remain pale. She is an autism consultant by day, and recently completed a degree in information science, mostly because she could and it was fun. She likes to read (obviously), watch TV while cross-stitching something geeky, play video games, beg her plants not to die in the hell heat of summer, and walk while … Continue reading Guest Post: The Library Advisory Board, or How I Didn’t Throw Away My Shot

Romancelandia Yarn! Available Today at WildStar Fibers!

A picture of the six colourways for Romancelandia: one green, one purpe, one mint, one deep violet, a dark blue and a magenta on a white marble tabletop

A few weeks ago I did a podcast interview with Nakia from WildStar Fibers about her Romancelandia yarn collection. The collection was very popular and more than a few of you asked about purchasing some. The yarn collection had been available for pre-order and the pre-order period had ended, BUT!  I just got an email from Nakia who says… “…this Saturday [19 November] at 10am Pacific: all of the extras from the Romancelandia collection [will be available … Continue reading Romancelandia Yarn! Available Today at WildStar Fibers!

Hide Your Wallet

Book Beat: Short Stories, Cozy Mysteries, & More

Welcome to Book Beat! Book Beat aims to highlight other books that we may hear about through friends, social media, or other sources. We could see a gorgeous ad! Or find a new-to-us author on a list of underrated romances! Think of Book Beat as Teen Beat or Tiger Beat, but for books. And no staples to open to get the fold-out poster.

Books On Sale

Fantasy and Historical Romance

Books on Sale: The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen & More

RECOMMENDED: The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen is $2.99! Sarah loved this one and gave it an A-:

If you like fantasy with characters that might sound like your neighbors sometimes, in a world with big stakes and little stakes and magical talking animals who deliver the mail, and especially if you like epistolary novels that lead to characters becoming more of themselves, you’ll like this undertaking. (Bad dum bum.)

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Podcast

537. Romance Cliche Throwdown with Amanda

Ready, set: CLICHÉ. Amanda and I are facing off in a romance cliché battle! What does that even mean? I know, my brain is a very silly place. Can you out-cliché the two of us? The Heat will be on! What’s your favorite or least favorite romance cliché? Tell us all about it! … Music: purple-planet.com

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