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📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙
@mandrichardswrites.bsky.social
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Author of F/F and M/F Contemporary Romcoms and Fantasy Romance. Crocheter . Teacher . Mom . Cat Lady . D&D nerd . AuDHD . Bi .
🧚Mandi Richards for Fantasy Romance
🤓Amanda Richards for Contemporary Romance
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Book is Ashley and Jake Game Dating which comes out in May
Cover of Ashley and Jake Game Dating: mid-size red headed white woman in a teal dress with black tights and red heels and a white man with brown hair, a grey hoodie and blue jeans on a purple background with houses in the background.
March 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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#WIPSnips Ring
We grab jackets and shoes and get in my old Hyundai—Terri calls driver—and head into town. I turn on the radio to some classic rock, but my phone rings, so I turn it down. Looking at the screen, I see it's my brother, Ben. A pang of guilt in my gut reminds me I haven't spoken to him all week. I hope everything is okay. I really need to be more on top of things with him. Avoiding him because I feel like I'm never doing enough, doesn’t help either of us. But, I just don’t know what else to do sometimes. I know that's super shitty. Ever since my mom passed away, leaving me in charge of my brother's care, nothing about his situation sits right with me. He shouldn't even be in a group home. Family cares for family. But thinking about it, I feel guilty and spiral into a vortex worrying if we're doing the right thing, or what we should be doing. And then I don't talk to him for days. Sometimes weeks. I really am a shitty brother. "You gonna answer?" Terry asks. Shit. "Hello, Benny Boy." I answer. "What are you doing?" he asks, without even greeting me back. "Heading into Greenswald with Terry. I've got a therapy appointment, and then we're going to grab some dinner somewhere Terry can watch baseball." "Let's go Mets." Ben cheers. He doesn't really care about baseball, but he knows the Mets are Terry's team and he loves relating to people, so he has a Mets banner on his wall, and a shirt that he wears if he knows he will see Terry. "Why? What’s up? Do you need anything? We could swing into Ashburg and get you something."
March 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I haven't seen this on blue sky yet, but it's all over my threads feed:

I write "clean" romance: the MCs get clean... Together... In a shower
Cover of Alex and Dani Hack Dating. A put together looking white man and a hot mess looking white woman with glasses.
March 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I swear to God, I did not send my cover designer a picture of my husband as inspo when she was searching for stock images for Jake 🤣
Cover of Ashley and Jake Game Dating: an illustrated a faceless mid size white woman with wavy red hair in a teal dress and a faceless white man with short brown hair, wearing a grey hoodie and blue jeans. Next to it is a picture of my husband with the same hair and complexion, standing in the same pose, and wearing almost the same clothes.
March 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Looking to read books not just on Amazon? All of mine are in Kobo+ as well as available pretty much all ebook places
Cover of Alex and Dani Hack Dating with trope arrows: single parents in their 30s, Nerds in Love, phone smex, ADHD rep, hot mess x anal retentive Cover of it's more of less Christmas (one curly haired white woman in red and green and a long straight brown haired white woman dressed all in black in front of a Christmas background) with trope arrows: grumpy sunshine, holiday novella, workplace romance, single mom, forced to work together Cover of Falcons Kiss (a dark haired white woman in a pink dress in front of a sailing ship) with trope arrows: marriage of convenience, smex on a beach, met at a ball, fae war, HEA, Hot Guys with Wings Cover of Eagle's Embrace (blond white woman in a blue ball gown in front of a fancy garden) with trope arrows: caught in a compromising position, frisky in a carriage, only one bed, fae war, hea, hot guys with wings.
March 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Free ebook alert. Fight back against censorship by downloading free spicy books! My books aren't free on Amazon because they never got back to me about price matching, but you can get them free on Apple, Kobo, And more! (My final slides shows all the places my books are available outside Amazon)
#Freethebooks2025 Monday February 17 Today only, check out the hashtag #FREETHEBOOKS2025 and grab tons of spicy, totally free books from authors lending their voices and stories to the fight against fascist, spicy book banning. The new political regime has made it clear that a war against the freedom to choose what we read is upon us. In protest of legislation making romantic and spicy books illegal, we've decided to #FREETHEBOOKS, because the right to free speech shouldn't just apply to bigoted ideals. Choosing whether or not to partake of spicy books should be OUR choice, not the government's. So #STUFFYOURBOOKHOLE and grab some free spicy books, and give the Fascist censorship plans TWO BIG MIDDLE FINGERS WAY UP. Mandi Richards books available for free at Barnes and Noble, Rakutan Kobo, Apple Books, Everand, Tolino, cloud library, baker and Taylor, odilo, vivlio, borrow box, Smashwords, palace marketplace, gardeners. Book covers for: Alex and Dani Hack Dating, It's More or Less Christmas, Falcon's Kiss, Eagle's Embrace
February 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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I'm participating in #FreeTheBooks2025 am anti-censorship protest for #SpicyBooks. All 4 of my books will be free tomorrow, February 17. I am working to get them free on Kindle, but I know for sure they will be free on B&N, Kobo, Smashwords, and more.
#FreeTheBooks2025 Monday February 17th Fight Book Banning --Free e-books Anti Censorship Protest Today only, check out the hashtag #FREETHEBOOKS2025 and grab tons of spicy, totally free books from authors lending their voices and stories to the fight against fascist, spicy book banning. The new political regime has made it clear that a war against the freedom to choose what we read is upon us. In protest of legislation making romantic and spicy books illegal, we've decided to #FREETHEBOOKS, because the right to free speech shouldn't just apply to bigoted ideals. Choosing whether or not to partake of spicy books should be OUR choice, not the government's. So #STUFFYOURBOOKHOLE and grab some free spicy books, and give the Fascist censorship plans TWO BIG MIDDLE FINGERS WAY UP. Free Amanda/Mandi Richards Books Alex and Dani Hack Dating, It's More or Less Christmas, Falcon's Kiss, Eagle's Embrace
February 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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With the Eagles in the Superbowl, I've decided to make the Eagles Embrace ebook free all weekend!

Zon is taking their time price matching, and since I'm not in ku I can't run a freebie promo on Kindle. So it's only free everywhere else:

📚B&N
📚Kobo
📚Apple
📚Smashwords
📚Fable
And more!
Image of Eagles Embrace cover: white princess with blond hair looking over her shoulder in a blue dress with a fancy garden in the background. Eagles logo Text "are you and Eagles fan? In honor of the Eagles making the super bowl, Eagles Embrace (spicy fae romance) will be free most places. B&N, Kobo, and more..."
February 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Anyone else feel like this NFL post for the Superbowl looks like an add for an enemies to lovers mm sports romance? Just me?
Illustrated drawing of Chiefs and Eagles player standing in front of the Superdome with a pink and purple sunset in the background.
February 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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With the Eagles in the Superbowl, I've decided to make the Eagles Embrace ebook free all weekend!

Zon is taking their time price matching, and since I'm not in ku I can't run a freebie promo on Kindle. So it's only free everywhere else:

📚B&N
📚Kobo
📚Apple
📚Smashwords
📚Fable
And more!

#romantasy
Text reads, "don't care about the game? Read a free book" And, "In honor of the Eagles making the super bowl, Eagle's Embrace (spicy fae romance) will be free all weekend!" Image of a football with super bowl Sunday written around it. Image of eagles embrace book cover: a blond princess looking over her shoulder in a blue dress with a fancy garden in the back ground.
February 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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QRP with your couple art ❤️

(Two very different styles for two very different books, lol)
Digitally painted artwork of a man with dark brown hair, and brown wings embracing a woman with long medium brown hair in an old school romance clinch cover style with the ocean behind them. It looks like they are in a cave. A "quirky" drawing of a white woman with a sloppy outfit tying her brown hair into a ponytail and a white man with dirty blond hair holding a tray of cookies
January 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I love a good clinch. But you get readers hate them, so I understand trying to get a new audience... I think we need to go back to step backs and have both a more discreet outer cover with a sexy inner cover.
January 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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I love a good clinch. But you get readers hate them, so I understand trying to get a new audience... I think we need to go back to step backs and have both a more discreet outer cover with a sexy inner cover.
January 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
January 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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So, in all of my contemporary romances I put pieces of myself into a lot of characters. Dani is a teacher, has ADHD, and crochets like me; Ashley plays the same video games as me; Jake has similar social anxiety to me; Jen is a teacher, and is bi, and has curly hair like me; the list goes on...
#pretendpanel a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.bsky.social "Jan 21: do you resonate More with any one of your characters? I.e have you self-inserted?
January 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Okay! This book has unlocked so much creativity for my story. If you haven't read any of Charlie N Holmberg's fantasy books, do it. And if you are writing fantasy and want to improve your magic/world building, this book is amazing!
Photo of The Book of Magic: the ultimate fantasy author's guide to magic systems by Charlie N. holmberg
January 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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So we excited to read this! My BFF just gave it to me as a belated Christmas gift 😍
January 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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📚Looking for a quick read with a little bit of spice to round out your holiday reading?

🌲It's More or Less Christmas is a sapphic workplace holiday novella that can be easily read in 1-2 settings.

Ebook is on sale for 99 cents all month across many platforms!

books2read.com/u/mKX9zB
December 24, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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My books are all part of the smash words End of the Year sale, all my books are on sale 50% off!
Fantasy Romance: www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
Contemporary romance: www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
December 15, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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My work place sapphic holiday novella is only 99 cents all month!
December 14, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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It's More or Less Christmas, my Sapphic, Grumpy Sunshine, workplace holiday novella is on sale all month for just. $0.99!

Available on Kindle, Barnes and Noble, and pretty much everywhere ebooks are sold.

books2read.com/u/mKX9zB
December 3, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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For those who are trying to avoid shopping Amazon where possible, my books are all available on a variety of non Amazon platforms. Spicy Romantasy with Bridgerton vibes, and Nerdy Contemporary romances.

Falcons Kiss, Eagles Embrace, It's More or Less Christmas and Alex and Dani Hack Dating
Photo of bookshelf with stacks of books and front facing books for Falcons Kiss, Eagles Embrace, It's More or Less Christmas and Alex and Dani Hack Dating
November 30, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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Today only, huge multi author fantasy romance aka Romantasy sale. Hundreds of books, all 99 cents today! Check it out! www.farofeb.com/bookblast

#fantasyromance #pnr #romantasy #booksale #99centbooks #bookdeals
November 29, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 1

Interview with the Vampire
Interview with the Vampire Dark Blue book cover
November 24, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Authors! Let's start a chain of posts of your FIRST published book. "Quote post" the cover, a link, and three words about it. Here is mine.

Bridgerton with Fae

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Cover of Falcons Kiss: a brunette in a flowy purple dress with windswept hair in front of a ship with stormy skies in the background
November 24, 2024 at 2:25 PM