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Tamara Amsdt
@tamaraamsdt.bsky.social
🖌 i like to paint on rocks
💗 love romance books
🎨 learning the art of the clinch
✨️ bosnian/yugoslav
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Hello, new people ::waves::

If you love romance books, you have come to the right place! l like to paint romance covers on rocks (and any other suitable surface l come across), and l am also learning how to oil paint ❤️📚🎨
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I am 7 chapters into @catswrites.bsky.social's new book (After Hours at Dooryard Books) and she has already STABBED ME IN THE HEART an equivalent number of times.

Fortunately, she's also made me cackle with laughter too, so I'm not curled up in a ball on the floor. 😁
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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the highs and lows of social media encapsulated in a single post.
Was researching an old theatre (boxing venue) in Hull.

Someone on a FB heritage page, under a photo: 'Think I used to go to pantomimes there as a kid!'

A wit replies: 'Oh no you didn't!'

The original poster: 'Is it a different building then?'
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU is out now! I hope you enjoy my novel about a magical midlife midwife dealing with generational trauma while discovering her true power.

Available in print, ebook, and audio. Info and buy links here: rubylangwrites.com/the-glowing-...
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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You say that like it’s a bad thing…
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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RAFE, XENI. & MEEGAN are here!
Catch up with these Loose Ends today!

💖 bookshop.org/p/books...
💖 www.amazon.com/dp/B0...
💖 www.therippedbodice....
#booksky #romancesky
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Please repost and donate if you can. I'm in desperate need.
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Romance should evolve, but its so clear when people want the shine and financial benefit of Romance without respecting the genre, its conventions, or the readers. It's disturbing, but not surprising that we've arrived in a place where CRAFT DOESNT MATTER is a thing people believe.
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I saw the most bonkers conversation on tiktok where people were arguing that Romance doesn’t need an HEA and authors were fighting for their lives in the comments trying to explain what a genre convention is. Again, trying to sell me a mystery with no crime and see what happens.
God we need more craft discussions and less fights about which tropes are good or bad that play out in a way that makes it clear no one even understands what a trope is anymore.
Romance should evolve, but its so clear when people want the shine and financial benefit of Romance without respecting the genre, its conventions, or the readers. It's disturbing, but not surprising that we've arrived in a place where CRAFT DOESNT MATTER is a thing people believe.
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Maybe you'd like to see the amazing cover for WORLD'S OKAYEST ORACLE (RELUCTANTLY) SEEKS DEMON, my book about an infamously underpowered oracle saving the world alongside the uptight demon who helped ruin her life 20 years ago?

AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/WOOamz
Other links: go.oliviadade.com/WOOprh
November 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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FOSSIL FEUD coming July 28, 2026 to a bookstore near you!!! Preorder and I will love you for 100 million years 💚🦕💚🦕💚
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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This book had no right to be as romantic as it was given that both MCs are serial killers who hunt other serial killers. Also, I was not as icked out by the graphic violence, not even the 👁️ stuff and I need to maybe sit with that for a bit.
188. Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

Read: 11/1/25-11/4/25
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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I am not an influencer, but please help me boost Palestinian-owned Nabiha cafe on U street near 17th in DC. The coffee is AMAZING, staff is super friendly, links to donate to Gazan families are easily accessible for customers who want to help
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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here, if you need more baseball now that MLB is over for the year bsky.app/profile/kdca...
"But as in any KD Casey book, the third party in the relationship is ‘baseball’, which here acts as a hard to please lover."

I was trying to think of a good summary of this book, but a pal did it for me. Breakout Year, an mm sports romance, is out in the world!
www.kdcaseywrites.com/breakout-year
November 2, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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It took exactly 2 books (one novella and one full length novel to be precise) for me to fall in love with this author's work. It's sexy and emotional and she only has the two out thus far but I was riveted. Her third is out in December and I'm already counting down the days for Athena's story.
185. Messy AF by Asha Mara

Read: 10/26/25-10/28/25
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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A jaded woman falls for her sunshine neighbor as mysterious snow sculptures start appearing in Toronto parks.

Read Magically Generated this weekend! My latest holiday romance novella has hot buttered rum, festive snow animals, and a touch of magic.

jackielaubooks.com/books/magica...
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Time to resurrect one of my favorite things Over Here: let me know about a book you either have out now or one that's up for folks to preorder, and I'll repost to boost it! 📚💜
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Come join my Patreon, even if you don't have a dollar to spare right now. Tomorrow's post is going to be a freebie as a Halloween treat. Learn some exciting (and sad) tales about one of cinema's most celebrated horror actors.

www.patreon.com/ChaceVerity
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October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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It's my birthday, so have a present. SLIPPERY CREATURES (Will Darling Adventures book 1) is going on cheap over the weekend. 1920s pulp adventure m/m romance with plots, spies, Bright Young People, and emotional support knife, all for 99p!
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles
books2read.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Get two (2) great books for the price of one (1) measly instagram comment!
The Inexplicable Magic Giveaway!

@elizabethdavis.bsky.social and I are running a giveaway on Instagram for signed copies of our books TIME FOR YOU and THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU: www.instagram.com/p/DQXVNBUkWQ...

Go to IG to enter!
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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READ ME SLOW is officially out in the world! 🥹🖤💜

This story is flirty, filthy, funny, and full of heart. It’s about an author who writes steamy books… and the horror podcaster who’s secretly obsessed with her voice.

Of course he's going to help narrate her new book, lol!

shorturl.at/XoNpy
October 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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We’ve got a seasonal #RomanceColumn for all your ghostly Halloweeny romance needs! Featuring: a haunting short take on Cinderella, a Florida town full of ghosts, a pair of Regency sapphic Gothic novelists, and a stunning romantasy with a witch and a lady knight. (Gift link)
#Romancelandia 💙📚
Romance Novels That Are Spicy, Sweet and Flat-Out Stunning
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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I adored this book. Soft and sweet and tender with Karl and his penchant for saying the F word and making physiologically impossible threats and his long standing love for Molly, this was adorable and fairly low angst. There's a part in this book relating to Karl's obit that made me laugh cry.
182. Second Chance Romance by Olivia Dade

Read: 10/19/25-10/23/25
October 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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one month from today I'm moderating a convo with two of my favorite people and writers!!!
Join me and @oliviawrites.bsky.social and our excellent moderator @authoremmabarry.bsky.social for a virtual book celebration, 11/22 at 1pm Central. The event is free, but you'll need to register with Love's Sweet Arrow:
shop.lovessweetarrow.com/oliviaandmindy
October 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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It's Gorilla Twins Week! We couldn't be happier to be talking about The Earl Takes All, a book we love so much we gave it a nickname that all of Romancelandia uses now. Whether you're reading it for the first time or the fiftieth, we're so happy to have you.
Gorilla Twins! The Earl Takes All by Lorraine Heath — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People
It's Gorilla Twins Week! We couldn't be happier to be talking about The Earl Takes All , a book we love so much we gave it a nickname that all of Romancelandia uses now. Whether you're reading it for...
fatedmates.net
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM