TW/CW: I have some startling news. I request that you hold on to your butt and possibly fetch your blood pressure medication if necessary. Harlequin is releasing a hardcover of Heated Rivalry in September – a special edition of a book that is doing moderately well right now in terms of sales and borrows. LOL. This is the cover. Y’all. Y’all, what is this. Are those…robots? Robots and some hockey sticks? I ranted about this … Continue reading The Heated Rivalry Hardcover is…Something →
Today, Amanda shared with me a post from writer and illustrator Odette Locke, who recently shared information about her upcoming romance in progress, A Corps of Health and Safety, with some Instagram graphics that lit my brain on fire. Important note: absolutely no part of this post is a knock against the author, their idea, their work in progress, any of it. This is about the larger implications of what is part of the aspirational … Continue reading Regulation and Oversight Now Part of the Fantasy of Romance →
Recently Amanda and I did a Weedy AMA where we answered questions from the Podcast Patreon for a bonus episode – one that starts out pretty cogent and then derails a fair bit as I lose my train of thought. One of the questions asked, to paraphrase, has online critique softened over the years, and why? My answer was: Yes. Because safety. Blogs used to be little micro-communities, and somewhat insulated from the larger internet, … Continue reading Ali Hazelwood Dislikes Peeta, And That Was a Problem for Some Folks →
First, let me just put this book right at the top so you don’t miss it. What’s this? Careless People is a memoir about Meta aka Facebook, written by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former employee of Facebook from 2011 to 2017. This memoir is revealing to everybody how very, very fucked up things are over there. Spoiler: it is indeed very, very fucked up. But wait, there’s more. This is quite a tale, and it’s still … Continue reading Careless People and Barbra Streisand →
After I finished reading The Seat Filler I had two important questions: 1. WTF did I just read and 2. Is Adam Driver ok? The Seat Filler turned out to be a self-insert RPF (real people fiction) about actor Adam Driver and it had the most ridiculous conflict ever. It had moments where it was genuinely cute, but I couldn’t get over the squickiness of the RPF angle or the fact that the conflict could easily … Continue reading The Seat Filler by Sariah Wilson →
The Shape of Night by Tess Gerritsen is a ridiculous book. I had hoped that it would transcend into glorious F+ territory, but sadly, despite all of its WTFery, it doesn’t. I also thought it might be romantic suspense, but it’s not. The Shape of Night is a thriller with erotic and paranormal elements (BDSM ghost sex, for real) but it fails to stick the landing on the thriller portion, it isn’t particularly erotic, and … Continue reading The Shape of Night by Tess Gerritsen →
