eri (e.m. caro)
@authoremcaro.com
📖 author, hybrid. you can pry the queer, historical, and romance genres from my cold, dead hands | 🏳️🌈 | rep: Cheyenne @ Handspun Literary
Coming March 17, 2026: REARS & VICES
https://emcaro.carrd.co/
https://books2read.com/RearsAndVices
Coming March 17, 2026: REARS & VICES
https://emcaro.carrd.co/
https://books2read.com/RearsAndVices
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eri (e.m. caro)
@authoremcaro.com
· Sep 17
COVER REVEAL 🔥✨🏴☠️🏳️🌈 I’m so excited to finally show folks this BEAUTIFUL cover!!
Stunning art by Jan (@thistlearts.bsky.social), who not only obliged me in portraying all three (!!!) of my queer, poly, radical pirates—he also absolutely nailed their dynamic!
Coming March 17, 2026!
emcaro.carrd.co
Stunning art by Jan (@thistlearts.bsky.social), who not only obliged me in portraying all three (!!!) of my queer, poly, radical pirates—he also absolutely nailed their dynamic!
Coming March 17, 2026!
emcaro.carrd.co
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🏳️⚧️ November 13th - 19th is #TransAwarenessWeek! While trans people (and trans stories) deserve far more than just your awareness, here’s a list of books by and/or about trans people and trans experiences that have been published (so far) in 2025! 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🏳️⚧️ November 13th - 19th is #TransAwarenessWeek! While trans people (and trans stories) deserve far more than just your awareness, here’s a list of books by and/or about trans people and trans experiences that have been published (so far) in 2025! 🧵
lol tell me you've never met a reader before without telling me
I’ll say this much: This reads exactly like what it is: people who discovered romance five years ago and decided they had all kinds of amazing new ideas to “fix” it. Connections between books? That feel kind of cozy to the reader? How did no one ever think of that?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
lol tell me you've never met a reader before without telling me
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Favorite new reaction image
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Favorite new reaction image
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Hey, if you have an MM (especially SF, fantasy, and horror) book out in 2026, let me know!
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Hey, if you have an MM (especially SF, fantasy, and horror) book out in 2026, let me know!
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This peacock wants to remind you that we never cross a picket line
Don't buy from Starbucks during the strike!
Don't buy from Starbucks during the strike!
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This peacock wants to remind you that we never cross a picket line
Don't buy from Starbucks during the strike!
Don't buy from Starbucks during the strike!
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I am so ready to read some romance novels that take Big Risks. Give me stakes. Real imperfections. Trust me to not need your characters to be exemplary, highly-therapized individuals. I’d like a theme or two, but I am not a baby bird, and I can chew on it myself
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I am so ready to read some romance novels that take Big Risks. Give me stakes. Real imperfections. Trust me to not need your characters to be exemplary, highly-therapized individuals. I’d like a theme or two, but I am not a baby bird, and I can chew on it myself
GASP I NEED IT
Highlights from the Bundled Up on Broad auction opening tmow 11/13!! (Buys warm clothes for the families at my synagogue Rodeph Shalom Philly's food pantry, or give directly to our wishlist: bit.ly/bundled25)
I HAVE to start with Olivia Waite's beaded octopus www.32auctions.com/organization...
I HAVE to start with Olivia Waite's beaded octopus www.32auctions.com/organization...
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
GASP I NEED IT
drinking this new Roasted Dandelion tea and it tastes like nothing so much as clean barn. like hayloft. and very old wood.
it is weirdly nostalgic? not delicious, mind you. but nostalgic.
it is weirdly nostalgic? not delicious, mind you. but nostalgic.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
drinking this new Roasted Dandelion tea and it tastes like nothing so much as clean barn. like hayloft. and very old wood.
it is weirdly nostalgic? not delicious, mind you. but nostalgic.
it is weirdly nostalgic? not delicious, mind you. but nostalgic.
US folks, I need the sequel to this, and it's out in paperback now, so pleeeease buy it!
It‘s been out in North America for a while, and is shortly coming to the UK/Commonwealth market.
US: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
UK:
geni.us/asunder
US: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
UK:
geni.us/asunder
Asunder
"There is no doubt in my mind that Kerstin Hall is one of the great imaginative minds writing fantasy today."—Isabel Cañas, USA Today Bestselling author o...
us.macmillan.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
US folks, I need the sequel to this, and it's out in paperback now, so pleeeease buy it!
if insta could do its one (1) job and show me all of my notifs, that'd be greaaaaat
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
if insta could do its one (1) job and show me all of my notifs, that'd be greaaaaat
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
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At events I always insist that I enjoy the daily act of writing, and I'm often met with skepticism. But an activity can be frustrating/challenging and still bring joy. In fact, that's part of it-- like playing a video game on a too-easy difficulty setting, a frictionless existence is not rewarding.
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
At events I always insist that I enjoy the daily act of writing, and I'm often met with skepticism. But an activity can be frustrating/challenging and still bring joy. In fact, that's part of it-- like playing a video game on a too-easy difficulty setting, a frictionless existence is not rewarding.
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as a writer, you meet two types of hopefuls: people who like to write and people who want to be writers. It's the former who actually succeed – you need to love this, not as a means to an end but for itself entirely.
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
as a writer, you meet two types of hopefuls: people who like to write and people who want to be writers. It's the former who actually succeed – you need to love this, not as a means to an end but for itself entirely.
i do not know why the kobo version on NG persists on not converting (for the umpteenth time) but aaaaahhhh it's VERY frustrating.
November 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
i do not know why the kobo version on NG persists on not converting (for the umpteenth time) but aaaaahhhh it's VERY frustrating.
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"The Bechdel test" is to my mind very much like "Godwin's Law": these were general observations about pernicious habits in our society that people somehow interpreted as being moral laws that must be followed to the letter.
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"The Bechdel test" is to my mind very much like "Godwin's Law": these were general observations about pernicious habits in our society that people somehow interpreted as being moral laws that must be followed to the letter.
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*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man
Why are people
Why are people
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man
Why are people
Why are people
grooooan still finding really embarrassing typos. unto the end of time, i suppose! this one's egregious, however 😂
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
grooooan still finding really embarrassing typos. unto the end of time, i suppose! this one's egregious, however 😂
NO fucking way!!!
Okay so Carol in Pluribus writes pirate romance? I see you Vince Gilligan.
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
NO fucking way!!!
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REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
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I haven’t been here in ages but I have a cover to share for my next book!!! It’s called THE HOUSE OF NOW AND THEN, and it’ll hit shelves on May 19, 2026. Cover illustration by Katie Smith and I am IN. LOVE.
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I haven’t been here in ages but I have a cover to share for my next book!!! It’s called THE HOUSE OF NOW AND THEN, and it’ll hit shelves on May 19, 2026. Cover illustration by Katie Smith and I am IN. LOVE.
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By the way, if you enjoy court intrigue with a shapeshifting cinnamon roll dragon & his murderous Fallen angel husband trying to solve crime without causing more crime, you can enjoy the first two books right now:
www.aliettedebodard.com/bibliography...
(might even feature... babysitting 😜)
www.aliettedebodard.com/bibliography...
(might even feature... babysitting 😜)
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
By the way, if you enjoy court intrigue with a shapeshifting cinnamon roll dragon & his murderous Fallen angel husband trying to solve crime without causing more crime, you can enjoy the first two books right now:
www.aliettedebodard.com/bibliography...
(might even feature... babysitting 😜)
www.aliettedebodard.com/bibliography...
(might even feature... babysitting 😜)
supermoon and i'm feeling it. woof.
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM
supermoon and i'm feeling it. woof.
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You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit
holy crap, is the mental state good enough to have an actual real live writing day??? can it BE??
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
holy crap, is the mental state good enough to have an actual real live writing day??? can it BE??
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Big day for people who care about other people
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Big day for people who care about other people