Category: Author’s Alley
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The Good Pen
He had one pen he actually liked — a specific, slightly absurd preference for a particular brand of fountain pen that wrote, according to him, “the way thinking is supposed to feel.” She’d thought it was a minor eccentricity until she watched him lose it, properly lose it, at a coffee shop, and witnessed something…
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The Anatomy of a Billionaire Romance: Why Wealthy Heroes Still Rule the Charts
Let’s be completely real for a second, bestie. In the real world, if a tech billionaire worth eighty billion dollars locked eyes with you in an elevator, cornered you, and demanded you pretend to be his fiancée for a corporate gala, you would immediately call the police. But inside the pages of a contemporary romance?…
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BEFORE YOU ENTER: How The Oath Archive Works
What if you could read a new Nesta and Cassian story… and when you screamed, “NO. DO THIS INSTEAD,” the author actually had to listen? That’s what we’re doing. I’m writing a brand-new, completely free Nessian fanfiction with a real mystery, romance, tension, terrible decisions and, naturally, spice. Except I’m not deciding everything that happens.…
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The Empty Chair
For the first six months after her mother died, Odette set the table for three without thinking, then quietly removed the extra plate before anyone noticed. Anyone except Hassan, who always noticed. He never said anything about it directly — never made it a topic, never asked if she was okay in the way that…
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5 Signs You’re Suffering from a Summer Book Hangover (And How to Cure It)
Alright, bestie, look at me. Put the Kindle down for a second and take a deep breath. We are at the end of August, Read-a-Romance Month is officially wrapping up, and you look like you’ve seen a ghost. Or worse—you just finished a 5-star book and now you feel completely hollow inside. Diagnosis? You are…
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The Spelling Bee
He still couldn’t spell “necessary.” Eleven years together, a graduate degree, a job that required regular written reports, and the man simply could not, under any circumstances, spell the word “necessary” correctly on the first attempt. It had become, over the years, one of Wren’s favorite things about him. “It’s two C’s and one S,”…
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Cinnamon Roll vs. Grumpy Alpha: The Ultimate Book Boyfriend Showdown
Alright, bestie, pull up your favorite chair and let’s get down to business. We are deep into August, Read-a-Romance Month is reaching its peak, and our Kindle highlights are getting borderline scandalous. It is time to address the eternal debate that has completely split the romance book community into two passionate factions. I’m talking, of…
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The Quiet Year
There had been a year — their fourth — when very little had happened between them. No crisis, no milestone, no defining moment worth telling people about. Just months of ordinary Tuesdays stacked on top of ordinary Tuesdays, a year that, if asked to summarize, Petra wouldn’t have known what to say. She’d worried about…
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The List
She kept a list on her phone titled, simply, “Things.” It had grown over the years into something close to four hundred entries — small observations about him, things he’d said or done that she didn’t want to lose to the ordinary forgetting that happens to a life. *Hums when he thinks no one’s listening.…
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How to Prep Your Bookshelf and TBR List for Cozy Autumn Reading
I know, I know. Take a deep breath and don’t throw your iced coffee at me, bestie. It is still late August, the sun is still blazing, and you’re probably still wearing shorts. But if we are being completely honest with ourselves, the romance book community is already mentally living in October. The second the…
