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Colleen Kelly
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Former Victorianist/current HS teacher. ✍🏻 romance. Rep by Tara Gelsomino. Tell me all your Austen jokes. Free romance 👇
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Did you know that horny Christmas novella season officially begins TODAY? You didn’t???? Well, what are you waiting for, go read this one!

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An e-reader shows the cover of the novella The Earl I Want for Christmas on a snowy background. The words Now Available In Kindle Unlimited are above
November 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Halloween may be over but my Jane Austen silhouette pumpkin lives on (for like three more days, damn squirrels)
A large and beautiful pumpkin reverse carved with the silhouette of Jane Austen
November 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Save me
A school sidewalk with the number 67 written on it in water
September 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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According to my 7 yr old it’s just as good the 8th time as the first
A movie theater screen showing the kpop demon hunters singalong with the lyrics “heels, nails, blade, mascara”
August 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Having the loveliest writers retreat with @alexandravasti.bsky.social but this view is making me wish I was writing a book set in July rather than February
It’s the beach
July 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I see your horn poppy and I raise you my pimpernel stairwell
William Morris Pimpernel wallpaper in woad
May 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I’m Fated Mates-adjacent!

Such a thrill to be told yesterday that A Midsummer Night’s Duke was included in the “Virgin Heroes” collection :) Made a miserable travel day more tolerable

Read the collection here: fatedmates.net/virgin-heroes

And get my free novella here: subscribepage.io/ulIqiT
Screen shots of a Fated Mates round up of books about virgin heroes, including A Midsummer Night’s Duke
April 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Did today kind of really suck? NOT TO WORRY! This novella is free! @alexandravasti.bsky.social called it “delicious, sexy, loving, gorgeously written, ridiculously FUN historical romance with so much heart (and to be clear, so much heat)”

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April 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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A Midsummer Night’s Duke— a book that notable critics and best-selling authors have called “so SO good” and “literally my favorite book of all time, I’m so for real right now” (they are my friends, but also honest!)— is out TODAY! Get it by signing up for my newsletter!

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The cover of A Midsummer Night’s Duke is in the center of a blue square surrounded by the words “A Midsummer Night’s Duke” and “Out Now”. The cover shows a blonde woman in a blue dress embracing a man in a light blue waistcoat
March 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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I have another novella coming out! It’s free through my newsletter! It is sweet and a little angsty and a little sad and a little funny and it definitely bangs!

Sign up and get it March 25:

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The cover of Colleen Kelly’s free newsletter regency romance novella A Midsummer Night’s Duke featuring the tropes “Moonlit Dancing” “He Falls First (And Harder!)” “Plucky Actress” “Virgin Duke” “One Night Only” “Strangers to Lovers” “Secret Meetings” “Surprise! It’s Me Again!”
March 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I have a free novella coming out 3/25 and just LOOK at the beautiful cover! I love it so much! These are the sweetest, shmoopiest muffins and everyone in #romacelandia should sign up for my newsletter to read about them:

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The cover of a free regency romance novella. A blonde white woman in a blue satin gown with a loose updo looks up at a man in a blue waistcoat. Only his mouth and chin are visible. He holds her hip and she has an open hand against his chest n the title A Midsummer Night’s Duke is centered on the cover and the authors name— Colleen Kelly — is below
February 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Dropping March 25th! A plucky and unlucky actress. A sad and horny Duke. The shortest, hottest night of the year… it’s A Midsummer Night’s Duke!

One day I’m going to charge for these excellent books of mine, but that day is not yet, so get it for free by subscribing to my newsletter

#romancelandia
A collage of small images around a scrap of paper bearing the hand-written words A Midsummer Night’s Duke. Images include the setting sun shining through blossoming apple trees, wildflowers in a field, the silhouette of a backlit man and woman kissing, sun shining though a scarf held up by a woman outside, silhouette of a dancing couple outside at sunset, a black-and-white photo of a serious-looking strong-featured white man with brown hair, a black and white photo of a white woman’s bare back, her face looking down in profile and hair swept over her shoulder, and a close-up of a bare arm and hand against rumpled bedsheets
February 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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At it again
February 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Merry Slothmas! (aka Boxing Day, Hanukkah night 2, 12/26, feast of St Stephen, Thursday)

You should read a book today.

This one! It's free and fun and a bit post-Christmas malaisey, and stars a pair of horny dumdums who think a sex vacation will solve all their problems.
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Cover of the free Christmas novella The Earl I Want For Christmas by Colleen Kelly on a background of woodsy, wintery wrapping paper and brown twine string and pine cones, surrounded by a graphic flourish of gold stars and thin curving lines. The book cover is a cropped photo of two brunette horny dumdums, man and woman, in Regency attire
December 26, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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This lil guy
Cute as fuck little jellycat hot pepper
December 21, 2024 at 4:34 AM
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IT’S ALMOST CHRISTMAS. THE NOVELLA-SEASON CLOCK IS RUNNING DOWN. #romancelandia WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR????

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A Christmas novella tropes spread for The Earl I Want For Christmas by me, Colleen Kelly. On a background of winter trees in the snow, the cover of a Christmas novella features a brown-haired white woman in a pink Regency-era dress looking up at a man in a gold and white waistcoat. Her hand is on his chest and he cups her elbow. Around the cover are text bubbles announcing the tropes to be found in the book: “Sex Lessons” “Falling for the Earl Next Door” “Oops, Are These Feelings?” “Just Once to Get It Out of Our Systems” “Bookstore Browsing As Foreplay” “Rake + Spinster” and “12 Days of Christmas Grand Gestures”
December 21, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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Brace yourself
A 1910s dark wood craftsman staircase papered in William fucking Morris (pimpernel)
December 7, 2024 at 3:35 AM
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It’s the start of the holiday shopping season. But I think you should REJECT the capitalist messaging and instead stay home and read a FREE holiday novella about two beautiful people making bad (and hot) decisions

Enjoy these horny dumdums as my gift to you, #romancelandia

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November 29, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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yeah, well, this is what I say to your “paperless district”
Giant stack of photocopies. “Excerpts from the Preface to Lyrical Ballads” on top. God only knows what’s below it
November 20, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Current stack, mostly #romancelandia
A stack of beautiful books: Cecilia Grant’s A Lady Awakened, Alexandra Vasti’s Ne’er Duke Well, Ali Hazelwood’s Bride, Ashley Poston’s The Dead Romantics, and Allison Montclair’s A Rogue’s Company
November 19, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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This is not my cat, but I met him last weekend in New Orleans and he is named Bill and he looks like a tiger/cheetah blend and he was an uncannily friendly kitty
Orange cat named Bill with both tiger and cheetah patterning and bright agate green eyes who is chilling like a boss on a porch
November 11, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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It’s JAR FULL OF JELLYBEANS season!
Ball jar FULL of jelly beans, mostly but not entirely, red.
March 31, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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Snow Jersey
A suburban New Jersey backyard covered in snow.
February 17, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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Stumbled onto a friend’s book in a display at my local library: The Mis-Arrangment of Sana Saeed by the wonderful Noreen Mughees. What a happy surprise! Get it, #romancelandia
A library display of books for Muslim Heritage month.
January 24, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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My friend received this utterly brutal fortune back in February (that’s me holding it for her photo) and I have thought about it and laughed every single day since.
A discouraging fortune that reads: Probability of Success: Fair By all means stay where you are. E’en you move, you won’t go far. But just keep the doors ajar. Prospects may go up to par.
December 10, 2023 at 2:05 PM