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Chantal Mer (she/her)
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Romance writer.🏳️‍🌈 Mom of dog, cat, and kids.
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It’s our final Love in Maplewood cover reveal! Doesn’t the series look gorgeous together? I don’t know about you, but they make me want to visit Maplewood ASAP. Don’t Clause a Scene by Lee Blair is available July 18.

Pre-order: geni.us/mw-dcas

Cover: Morningstar Ashley Designs
#CoverReveal
May 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Ready for another Love in Maplewood cover reveal? Fans of cryptids and spooky season have to check out Something Cryptid This Way Comes by Susan Scott Shelley—available July 11.

Pre-order: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

Cover: Morningstar Ashley Designs

#CoverReveal
May 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
It's time for our eighth Love in Maplewood cover reveal! If you love stories where characters click from the first moment they meet—this book is for you. The Great Maple Mistake by Beck Grey is available July 4.

Pre-order: readerlinks.com/l/4721383

Cover: Morningstar Ashley Designs
May 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Who’s ready for summer? This cover for Love in Maplewood book seven makes it feel like the season is already here. Combine some sun, a small town, and an ice cream festival, and you’ve got Scoop Me Up by Riley Long, which releases June 27.

Pre-order: a.co/d/7pasA3j
Cover: Morningstar Ashley Designs
May 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
We’re over halfway through our Love in Maplewood cover reveals!

Book six delivers three queer romance favorites: hockey, Pride, and libraries. Pride by the Book by Jeff Adams is available on June 20.

Pre-order: books2read.com/PrideByTheBook

Cover: Morningstar Ashley Designs
May 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It’s time for another cover reveal for the Love in Maplewood series! Book five is a friends-with-benefits romance between a rockstar and a single dad. Can You Feel the Maple Tonight by Bix Barrow releases June 13!

Pre-order: readerlinks.com/l/4718721

Cover: Morningstar Ashley Designs
April 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
##CoverReveal

It’s cover reveal time for Love in Maplewood book three! It's🔥!!! And if you’re a fan of hockey romance, you’ll definitely want to check out A Touch of Maple by Amy Aislin which is available on May 30.

Pre-order: readerlinks.com/l/4718550

Cover: Morningstar Ashley Designs
April 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
#CoverReveal for the second Love in Maplewood book! If you love single dads and fake dating, you’ll love this story. Love Me Like It’s Real by Rhys Everly-Lawless. Available May 23.

Pre-order: readerlinks.com/l/4707484

Cover: Morningstar Ashley Designs
April 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Cover reveal!

Our first Love in Maplewood book releases one month from today!

Winter Wishes and Coffee Kisses, which will be available May 16.

Preorder here: readerlinks.com/l/4705178
April 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
New series!

Love in Maplewood is a low-angst, small-town series with 10 standalone queer romances. Come for the celebrations, stay for the happily-ever-afters!

Visit geni.us/maplewood to pre-order now! The books will release on Fridays from May 16 through July 18.
April 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Candy Hearts anthology is only available through March 31! Buy or borrow it before then to make sure you enjoy these 23 low-angst stories before they're gone.

If you're a KU reader, as long as you borrow it before it's gone, you can read it later.

candyheartsanthology.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Reposted by Chantal Mer (she/her)
Meta considered licensing books to train AI—but opted instead to pirate LibGen, a database that currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, Alex Reisner writes.
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The second Candy Hearts anthology is available now!❤️🍭🧡🍬💛🍫💚🍭🩵🍬💜

This volume is all about wrong numbers.🔢

Available for a limited time, and all proceeds will benefit the Rainbow Railroad.🏳️‍🌈

On Amazon or buy direct at CandyHeartsAnthology.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM