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Maura Yzmore / Fiona Embers 🎃🎃🎃
@maurayzmore.bsky.social
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Author of dark short fiction (as Maura Yzmore) and spicy romance (as Fiona Embers). HWA. Math nerd. Opes in the Midwest. Novel SOFT REBOUND out now. Buy at https://books2read.com/fionaembers
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Coming soon from @evernightpub.bsky.social

RINGS TRUE by Fiona Embers
(Book 1 of a new STEM romance series)

The girl of Seth's dreams has always been married to someone else… Then suddenly, she isn’t. Now he has four days to make her his — or lose her for good.

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Quote from RINGS TRUE: "I take off her jacket and slowly unzip her dress, the creamy flesh of her shoulders soft and yielding beneath my fingertips. I push the bodice down her arms, and she shivers, goosebumps emerging wherever my skin brushes across hers."
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Periodic reminder that I also write kissing books

Angsty, spicy contemporary romance featuring heroines who are too much and heroes who can't get enough

SHOOT YOUR SHOT: friends-to-lovers, athlete heroine
SOFT REBOUND: hookup-to-lovers, plus-size rep

Buy online: books2read.com/fionaembers/

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Covers for Mad City Moments series by Fiona Embers
November 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Fifth most popular name in Colorado in 1980! You should also be fending off Michaels and Chrises and Joshes and Matts! 😅 Jason is also 11th overall across the country for the whole of 1980s! (I know you didn't ask for data, but my inner nerd took over and couldn't stop them!)
Popularity of baby names born in Colorado in 1980
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Quote from Sylvia Plath
October 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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The girl of his dreams has always been married to someone else… Then suddenly, she isn’t. Now he has four days to make her his — or lose her for good.

RINGS TRUE, first in a series of STEM romance novelettes, coming soon from @evernightpub.bsky.social

#thirstythursday
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Quote from upcoming STEM romance novelette RINGS TRUE by Fiona Embers. "It took all I had not to turn around and grab her, rip those goggles and lab coat off her, and rail her right there on the lab bench, glassware shattering to the ground." - Seth
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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When I was searching for a GIF with gerund (not sure why I thought such GIFs would exist), all I got were people running... So of course I had to make this meme

#grammar #nerd 🤓 #amwriting #amediting #booksky
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Grammar Forest Gump meme where Forest runs away from bad guys and the text says "Gerund Forest gerund"
October 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Look at this: a book review in poem form! So cool!

splashesintobooks.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/s...

Here's an excerpt below
Excerpt from a book review in poem form from Splashintobooks!
October 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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An author interview with me on B for Bookreview, wherein I muse on writing logistics, characterization, and of course coffee

tinyurl.com/4a7fs3kt

#amwriting #booksky #romancelandia

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Excerpt from author interview, talking about coffee
October 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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SOFT REBOUND is going on blog tour with
@rararesources.bsky.social! Starting Monday, look for reviews from lovely bloggers & a few guest posts by me wherein I muse on the novel origin story, romance favs & least favs, & how short fiction helps me write better novels!
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Blog tour for SOFT REBOUND listing bloggers participating Oct 13 to Oct 17
October 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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An amazing craft book by Noelle Adams/Claire Kent on career in genre fiction from the viewpoint of someone (very financially successful!) who focuses on writing & avoids networking. It's a wonderful blend of craft advice & personal anecdotes. I was a beta reader & highly recommend it. Out Oct 17

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Back and front covers of WRITING INVISIBLE by Noelle Adams and Claire Kent
October 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Being a giant nerd, I'm always delighted by data, and today I've got some to share!

Behold, word clouds from NetGalley reviews of SOFT REBOUND and SHOOT YOUR SHOT from @evernightpub.bsky.social

Find them both at various online retailers: books2read.com/fionaembers

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Word cloud for SOFT REBOUND with a cover banner on top Word cloud for SHOOT YOUR SHOT with a cover banner on top
October 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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These novella edits won't know what hit 'em *cracks knuckles, inhales caffeine*

#writing #editing #booksky #writesky

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Cappuccino on wooden table
October 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Look how pretty! My latest haul of dystopian romance by the inimitable Claire Kent. If you'd never dream of picking up romance because you only like gritty fare, you should read Last Light (dystopian road trip w/ nookie).

Devotion is a postapocalyptic BJ novel (truly)

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Book haul: Paperback covers of Last Light, Hold series, Tower, Devotion, and Protected, all by Claire Kent
October 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Abby Jimenez broadcasting women's closely guarded secrets on the importance of carburators and gutters in men's hotness
Being able to work a carburator and install gutters is peak male hotness, says author Abby Jimenez in The Situationship
September 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Ooh, that's already a fun foursome!

Two of these, back to back
September 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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In case you're wondering how editing is going

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Text "Author, reading through latest draft" above 12 versions of a woman's face, 9 of which show disproval and only 3 of which show approval
September 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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The first hookup after a long relationship is always meaningless. Right?

SOFT REBOUND from @evernightpub.bsky.social

Amazon: bit.ly/4kEIldX
Elsewhere: books2read.com/soft-rebond

More of Fiona's books:
books2read.com/fionaembers

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“This book was beautiful. I love how patient the MMC was and how determined the MFC was to stay true to herself. The spice was an added bonus to such a healing and heartfelt story.” —Meghin, Goodreads Reviewer
September 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Deli meat purveyor: How do I classify this product?

Romance reader, eyeing greedily: Night stick sausage

#romancereader #sausage
Label of Night Stick Sausage (red with white letters) Night Stick Sausage, about a foot long, in hand
September 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Periodic reminder that I write spicy kissing books and you can buy them and read them and kick your feet giddily as lovestruck characters act like like sappy, besotted fools

books2read.com/fionaembers

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Cover images for SHOOT YOUR SHOT and SOFT REBOUND against a white backrground
August 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Do you want to read my musings on creativity and craft, with snippets of my villain origin story? You can do so now in this cool new interview with the Bold Journey magazine

boldjourney.com/meet-fiona-e...

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#writesky #booksky #amwriting #interview
Screenshot of interview page with portrait photo of Fiona Embers and words Bold Journey and Meet Fiona Embers against a white background
August 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Having hands full
Hand on statue of gorilla
August 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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😂😂
August 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Damn straight, Lisa Kleypas
August 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Another contribution to the Annals of Beautiful Prose in Historical Romance. This is from Lisa Kleypas's Hathaways series, Book 3. She sometimes drops a line or a paragraph that's so gorgeous, I realize she's microdosing us because none of us are ready for pure, unadulterated Lisa Kleypas
"The sky had turned the color of pewter. A heavy drizzle fell to the gravel-covered paving blocks of the street, tamping down the pungent dust that had been stirred by passing vehicles." - a quote from Lisa Kleypas's Tempt Me at Twilight (Hathaways Book 3)
August 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Just came across this drawing I did a few years ago of Benny Rose, the Cannibal King from @haileypiperfights.bsky.social novel. Isn't he cute?

#fanart #horror 💙📚
Line drawing of Benny Rose, the Cannibal King from Hailey Piper's novel. Benny is a bald naked man with a distended abdomen, pointy teeth, and claws Cover image for Hailey Piper's Benny Rose, the Cannibal King
August 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM