Roxanne Blackhall
@roxyblackhall.bsky.social
🌶️ Spicy romance & messy, magnetic love
💋 Strong, sassy women & men who love hard
🔥 Filthy banter, deep feels, HEAs
🏳️🌈 Sex+ & equity-driven
🔗 https://roxanneblackhall.com/links-and-newsletter/
💋 Strong, sassy women & men who love hard
🔥 Filthy banter, deep feels, HEAs
🏳️🌈 Sex+ & equity-driven
🔗 https://roxanneblackhall.com/links-and-newsletter/
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Since it's been a minute, how about a fresh intro?
✨ contemporary romance author
✨ foodie & cook
✨ liberal AF
✨ sex+
✨ LGBTQ+
✨ feminist
✨ non-Christian
✨ neurodivergent
✨ hard of hearing
✨ anti-ageist
✨ body+
✨ striving to be antiracist
If you’re here for all that, cool. If not, unfollow.
✨ contemporary romance author
✨ foodie & cook
✨ liberal AF
✨ sex+
✨ LGBTQ+
✨ feminist
✨ non-Christian
✨ neurodivergent
✨ hard of hearing
✨ anti-ageist
✨ body+
✨ striving to be antiracist
If you’re here for all that, cool. If not, unfollow.
Tell me your mood—sweet or spicy—and I’ll drop a quote from one of my books to match it. 💋
Fluff or filth, I’ve got you.
#RomanceReaders #SpicyBooks #SweetOrSpicy #CharmCityConnections #BookQuotes #ChooseYourVibe #AuthorLife
Fluff or filth, I’ve got you.
#RomanceReaders #SpicyBooks #SweetOrSpicy #CharmCityConnections #BookQuotes #ChooseYourVibe #AuthorLife
July 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Tell me your mood—sweet or spicy—and I’ll drop a quote from one of my books to match it. 💋
Fluff or filth, I’ve got you.
#RomanceReaders #SpicyBooks #SweetOrSpicy #CharmCityConnections #BookQuotes #ChooseYourVibe #AuthorLife
Fluff or filth, I’ve got you.
#RomanceReaders #SpicyBooks #SweetOrSpicy #CharmCityConnections #BookQuotes #ChooseYourVibe #AuthorLife
Romance authors (any creative types, really): Where are you in the spiral today?
I'm bouncing between "This is hot though" and "Everyone will hate it."
Please send help. Coffee. Pics of sexy people. Your fave unhinged bookish quotes. Wine. Tequila. Something. Anything.
Thanks!
I'm bouncing between "This is hot though" and "Everyone will hate it."
Please send help. Coffee. Pics of sexy people. Your fave unhinged bookish quotes. Wine. Tequila. Something. Anything.
Thanks!
July 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Romance authors (any creative types, really): Where are you in the spiral today?
I'm bouncing between "This is hot though" and "Everyone will hate it."
Please send help. Coffee. Pics of sexy people. Your fave unhinged bookish quotes. Wine. Tequila. Something. Anything.
Thanks!
I'm bouncing between "This is hot though" and "Everyone will hate it."
Please send help. Coffee. Pics of sexy people. Your fave unhinged bookish quotes. Wine. Tequila. Something. Anything.
Thanks!
Guys to romance readers: “Romance creates unrealistic expectations.”
My response: Nah, babe. It just shows what bare minimum accountability looks like…with abs. 👏📚💅
#RaiseYourStandards #RomanceIsTheBlueprint #BookBoyfriendsDoItBetter #CharmCityConnections #RomanceReaders
My response: Nah, babe. It just shows what bare minimum accountability looks like…with abs. 👏📚💅
#RaiseYourStandards #RomanceIsTheBlueprint #BookBoyfriendsDoItBetter #CharmCityConnections #RomanceReaders
July 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Guys to romance readers: “Romance creates unrealistic expectations.”
My response: Nah, babe. It just shows what bare minimum accountability looks like…with abs. 👏📚💅
#RaiseYourStandards #RomanceIsTheBlueprint #BookBoyfriendsDoItBetter #CharmCityConnections #RomanceReaders
My response: Nah, babe. It just shows what bare minimum accountability looks like…with abs. 👏📚💅
#RaiseYourStandards #RomanceIsTheBlueprint #BookBoyfriendsDoItBetter #CharmCityConnections #RomanceReaders
Which mood are you in today? No wrong answers. Just vibes.
July 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Which mood are you in today? No wrong answers. Just vibes.
Since it's been a minute, how about a fresh intro?
✨ contemporary romance author
✨ foodie & cook
✨ liberal AF
✨ sex+
✨ LGBTQ+
✨ feminist
✨ non-Christian
✨ neurodivergent
✨ hard of hearing
✨ anti-ageist
✨ body+
✨ striving to be antiracist
If you’re here for all that, cool. If not, unfollow.
✨ contemporary romance author
✨ foodie & cook
✨ liberal AF
✨ sex+
✨ LGBTQ+
✨ feminist
✨ non-Christian
✨ neurodivergent
✨ hard of hearing
✨ anti-ageist
✨ body+
✨ striving to be antiracist
If you’re here for all that, cool. If not, unfollow.
July 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Since it's been a minute, how about a fresh intro?
✨ contemporary romance author
✨ foodie & cook
✨ liberal AF
✨ sex+
✨ LGBTQ+
✨ feminist
✨ non-Christian
✨ neurodivergent
✨ hard of hearing
✨ anti-ageist
✨ body+
✨ striving to be antiracist
If you’re here for all that, cool. If not, unfollow.
✨ contemporary romance author
✨ foodie & cook
✨ liberal AF
✨ sex+
✨ LGBTQ+
✨ feminist
✨ non-Christian
✨ neurodivergent
✨ hard of hearing
✨ anti-ageist
✨ body+
✨ striving to be antiracist
If you’re here for all that, cool. If not, unfollow.
My next book is something of love letter to my adopted hometown & features some of my fave places around Baltimore.
If you’re ever visiting, definitely check out:
The Walters Art Museum
Ceremony Coffee
The American Visionart Arts Museum
Artscape (if you’re here Memorial Day weekend.)
#romancelandia
If you’re ever visiting, definitely check out:
The Walters Art Museum
Ceremony Coffee
The American Visionart Arts Museum
Artscape (if you’re here Memorial Day weekend.)
#romancelandia
March 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
My next book is something of love letter to my adopted hometown & features some of my fave places around Baltimore.
If you’re ever visiting, definitely check out:
The Walters Art Museum
Ceremony Coffee
The American Visionart Arts Museum
Artscape (if you’re here Memorial Day weekend.)
#romancelandia
If you’re ever visiting, definitely check out:
The Walters Art Museum
Ceremony Coffee
The American Visionart Arts Museum
Artscape (if you’re here Memorial Day weekend.)
#romancelandia
In bookish news:
Book 1 of the new series comes out 4/8!
Book 2 is drafted & in revisions.
Book 3 is outlined & 1st chapter sorta fleshed out.
And I solved my email issues so I can finally launch a newsletter. Yay!
Now I just need to get folks to sign up for it.
roxanneblackhall.com/welcome/news...
Book 1 of the new series comes out 4/8!
Book 2 is drafted & in revisions.
Book 3 is outlined & 1st chapter sorta fleshed out.
And I solved my email issues so I can finally launch a newsletter. Yay!
Now I just need to get folks to sign up for it.
roxanneblackhall.com/welcome/news...
Subscribe to my newsletter!
roxanneblackhall.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
In bookish news:
Book 1 of the new series comes out 4/8!
Book 2 is drafted & in revisions.
Book 3 is outlined & 1st chapter sorta fleshed out.
And I solved my email issues so I can finally launch a newsletter. Yay!
Now I just need to get folks to sign up for it.
roxanneblackhall.com/welcome/news...
Book 1 of the new series comes out 4/8!
Book 2 is drafted & in revisions.
Book 3 is outlined & 1st chapter sorta fleshed out.
And I solved my email issues so I can finally launch a newsletter. Yay!
Now I just need to get folks to sign up for it.
roxanneblackhall.com/welcome/news...
Three scenes & an epilogue left to complete this draft, then it's time to dive right into fleshing out & prepping for revisions.
I'm only a month behind.
How am I supposed to concentrate on writing?
#romancelandia #contemporaryromance
I'm only a month behind.
How am I supposed to concentrate on writing?
#romancelandia #contemporaryromance
January 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Three scenes & an epilogue left to complete this draft, then it's time to dive right into fleshing out & prepping for revisions.
I'm only a month behind.
How am I supposed to concentrate on writing?
#romancelandia #contemporaryromance
I'm only a month behind.
How am I supposed to concentrate on writing?
#romancelandia #contemporaryromance
Authors, post something related to your last publication or WIP without context.
January 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Authors, post something related to your last publication or WIP without context.
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
Complicated!
1. Journalist
2. Journalism
3. Theater (technical side)
4. Freelance editor (career editor)
But...
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
Complicated!
1. Journalist
2. Journalism
3. Theater (technical side)
4. Freelance editor (career editor)
But...
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. To be an actress
2. Musical theater
3. Went from musical theater to theater
4. Law librarian.
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
1. To be an actress
2. Musical theater
3. Went from musical theater to theater
4. Law librarian.
January 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
Complicated!
1. Journalist
2. Journalism
3. Theater (technical side)
4. Freelance editor (career editor)
But...
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?
Complicated!
1. Journalist
2. Journalism
3. Theater (technical side)
4. Freelance editor (career editor)
But...
First rule of thesaurus club: You do not talk, discuss, chat, speak, gab, confer, deliberate, gossip, or prattle about thesaurus club.
In honor of National Thesaurus Day & feeling like dredging up an old trend—a wordcloud based on a certain project coming out in April.
In honor of National Thesaurus Day & feeling like dredging up an old trend—a wordcloud based on a certain project coming out in April.
January 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
First rule of thesaurus club: You do not talk, discuss, chat, speak, gab, confer, deliberate, gossip, or prattle about thesaurus club.
In honor of National Thesaurus Day & feeling like dredging up an old trend—a wordcloud based on a certain project coming out in April.
In honor of National Thesaurus Day & feeling like dredging up an old trend—a wordcloud based on a certain project coming out in April.
How did we get into mid-January already?
I'm hustling through final tweaks on Charm City Connections Book 1—it's due out in April & it's almost time to get it into final edits.
Not gonna lie, I'm excited & a little scared to be making the leap to full on indie author.
#IndieAuthor
I'm hustling through final tweaks on Charm City Connections Book 1—it's due out in April & it's almost time to get it into final edits.
Not gonna lie, I'm excited & a little scared to be making the leap to full on indie author.
#IndieAuthor
January 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
How did we get into mid-January already?
I'm hustling through final tweaks on Charm City Connections Book 1—it's due out in April & it's almost time to get it into final edits.
Not gonna lie, I'm excited & a little scared to be making the leap to full on indie author.
#IndieAuthor
I'm hustling through final tweaks on Charm City Connections Book 1—it's due out in April & it's almost time to get it into final edits.
Not gonna lie, I'm excited & a little scared to be making the leap to full on indie author.
#IndieAuthor
Errand day provided the opportunity to grab lunch w/ a friend, which meant I got one of my faves—egusi soup.
Yum!!
Yum!!
January 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Errand day provided the opportunity to grab lunch w/ a friend, which meant I got one of my faves—egusi soup.
Yum!!
Yum!!
Wow. So good to know that the spammers & scammers, folks selling services, & the rando men going "hey beautiful" are all here too.
It's so comforting.
It's so comforting.
January 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Wow. So good to know that the spammers & scammers, folks selling services, & the rando men going "hey beautiful" are all here too.
It's so comforting.
It's so comforting.
Apropos of nothing… how to feel old? Get a pill sorter that has morning & evening slots for each day.
How I say: Don’t care, I’m gonna do what works for me & it’s gonna be cool & cute?
#aginggracefully #55andfabulous #over50club
How I say: Don’t care, I’m gonna do what works for me & it’s gonna be cool & cute?
#aginggracefully #55andfabulous #over50club
January 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Apropos of nothing… how to feel old? Get a pill sorter that has morning & evening slots for each day.
How I say: Don’t care, I’m gonna do what works for me & it’s gonna be cool & cute?
#aginggracefully #55andfabulous #over50club
How I say: Don’t care, I’m gonna do what works for me & it’s gonna be cool & cute?
#aginggracefully #55andfabulous #over50club
Might as well post some of my food stuff—my two fave topics, food and writing.
Been up to my eyeballs in making mini pies for Friendsgiving.
And would ya lookit that crust?!?
Been up to my eyeballs in making mini pies for Friendsgiving.
And would ya lookit that crust?!?
November 28, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Might as well post some of my food stuff—my two fave topics, food and writing.
Been up to my eyeballs in making mini pies for Friendsgiving.
And would ya lookit that crust?!?
Been up to my eyeballs in making mini pies for Friendsgiving.
And would ya lookit that crust?!?
Guess intros are in order. I am:
A writer & reader. Mom to LGBTQ+ adults. Liberal. Feminist. ND. Not Xtian. Striving to be anti-racist & always discovering new things to unpack.
I talk romance & politics & human rights & sex & consent & the non-vanilla & food & cooking.
And yeah I talk up my books.
A writer & reader. Mom to LGBTQ+ adults. Liberal. Feminist. ND. Not Xtian. Striving to be anti-racist & always discovering new things to unpack.
I talk romance & politics & human rights & sex & consent & the non-vanilla & food & cooking.
And yeah I talk up my books.
November 16, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Guess intros are in order. I am:
A writer & reader. Mom to LGBTQ+ adults. Liberal. Feminist. ND. Not Xtian. Striving to be anti-racist & always discovering new things to unpack.
I talk romance & politics & human rights & sex & consent & the non-vanilla & food & cooking.
And yeah I talk up my books.
A writer & reader. Mom to LGBTQ+ adults. Liberal. Feminist. ND. Not Xtian. Striving to be anti-racist & always discovering new things to unpack.
I talk romance & politics & human rights & sex & consent & the non-vanilla & food & cooking.
And yeah I talk up my books.
Time to start finding folks here. Not sure I want to continue being active on anything Meta.
So umm… hi!
So umm… hi!
November 9, 2024 at 5:19 AM
Time to start finding folks here. Not sure I want to continue being active on anything Meta.
So umm… hi!
So umm… hi!
Still trying to figure out which social media feels like home.
October 9, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Still trying to figure out which social media feels like home.
This is so real!
What accidental references have you written?
Or read & wondered “did they mean to do that?”
Yes, I did make an accidental Star Wars reference. Then I decided to just embrace it & expand on it.
What accidental references have you written?
Or read & wondered “did they mean to do that?”
Yes, I did make an accidental Star Wars reference. Then I decided to just embrace it & expand on it.
December 11, 2023 at 4:48 AM
This is so real!
What accidental references have you written?
Or read & wondered “did they mean to do that?”
Yes, I did make an accidental Star Wars reference. Then I decided to just embrace it & expand on it.
What accidental references have you written?
Or read & wondered “did they mean to do that?”
Yes, I did make an accidental Star Wars reference. Then I decided to just embrace it & expand on it.
Somebody wanted to come say hi after lunch.
Hanging at the Richmond Highland Games.
#mantis #prayingmantis #bugslife #highlandgames
Hanging at the Richmond Highland Games.
#mantis #prayingmantis #bugslife #highlandgames
November 5, 2023 at 1:57 AM
Somebody wanted to come say hi after lunch.
Hanging at the Richmond Highland Games.
#mantis #prayingmantis #bugslife #highlandgames
Hanging at the Richmond Highland Games.
#mantis #prayingmantis #bugslife #highlandgames
The results of last Sunday’s fun? Gorgeous glasses.
#sagamorespirit #mcfaddenartglass #whiskeyontherocks #blownglass #baltimore #makeminetequila
#sagamorespirit #mcfaddenartglass #whiskeyontherocks #blownglass #baltimore #makeminetequila
October 20, 2023 at 9:05 PM
The results of last Sunday’s fun? Gorgeous glasses.
#sagamorespirit #mcfaddenartglass #whiskeyontherocks #blownglass #baltimore #makeminetequila
#sagamorespirit #mcfaddenartglass #whiskeyontherocks #blownglass #baltimore #makeminetequila
The #FridayKiss prompt was “sweet.”
Did I have several lovely, romantic passages I could’ve used? Sure, but…
How could I resist?
#romancewriter #contemporaryromance #steamyromance #kissingbooks #romanceauthor #romancelandia
Did I have several lovely, romantic passages I could’ve used? Sure, but…
How could I resist?
#romancewriter #contemporaryromance #steamyromance #kissingbooks #romanceauthor #romancelandia
October 20, 2023 at 1:15 PM
The #FridayKiss prompt was “sweet.”
Did I have several lovely, romantic passages I could’ve used? Sure, but…
How could I resist?
#romancewriter #contemporaryromance #steamyromance #kissingbooks #romanceauthor #romancelandia
Did I have several lovely, romantic passages I could’ve used? Sure, but…
How could I resist?
#romancewriter #contemporaryromance #steamyromance #kissingbooks #romanceauthor #romancelandia
Ooo fun… if you see this, repost w/ a pic of you in a dress or suit.
I couldn’t choose just 1.
The night hubby proposed…
A silly touristy pic w/ my mom…
I couldn’t choose just 1.
The night hubby proposed…
A silly touristy pic w/ my mom…
October 20, 2023 at 1:24 AM
Ooo fun… if you see this, repost w/ a pic of you in a dress or suit.
I couldn’t choose just 1.
The night hubby proposed…
A silly touristy pic w/ my mom…
I couldn’t choose just 1.
The night hubby proposed…
A silly touristy pic w/ my mom…
Enter to win a signed paperback! The giveaway is live—goodreads.com/book/show/1992…
#contemporaryromance #bookgiveaway #romancegiveaway #RomanceAuthor #RomanceWriter #AbbeydonAbandon #BristolPark #SteamyRomance #kissingbooks
#contemporaryromance #bookgiveaway #romancegiveaway #RomanceAuthor #RomanceWriter #AbbeydonAbandon #BristolPark #SteamyRomance #kissingbooks
October 16, 2023 at 4:46 PM
Enter to win a signed paperback! The giveaway is live—goodreads.com/book/show/1992…
#contemporaryromance #bookgiveaway #romancegiveaway #RomanceAuthor #RomanceWriter #AbbeydonAbandon #BristolPark #SteamyRomance #kissingbooks
#contemporaryromance #bookgiveaway #romancegiveaway #RomanceAuthor #RomanceWriter #AbbeydonAbandon #BristolPark #SteamyRomance #kissingbooks