📚What I'm reading:
That Girl Is Trouble (reading for the second time)

Great follow up to Bad Bad Man, the first book. It's a great age-gap #motorcycleclubromance. Kat is certainly trouble, and I love how she keeps Axel on his toes.

🍻 What I'm drinking:
Great Lakes Brewing Cran Orange Wheat 🧡

At the Michigan Writers Workshop, chilling in my Bronco during lunch, because all of us writer types are introverts and I'm too tired for small talk. I'm also clearly having an identity crisis because I signed up with my married name even though I'm using my maiden name for fiction.

#michiganww

I might be the quiet one in the room, but mention you're into #DarkRomance, and I’ll happily spiral into endless conversations about morally gray characters and serial killers with a soft side.

So, if you’re looking for someone to debate which book boyfriend reigns supreme, let's be friends!

Husband: I bet you're scared of shadows after some of those books you read.

Me: Let me tell you about Xaden Riorsen and why shadows are hot ...

Husband: *regret*

Me: ...and that's why they call him Shadow Daddy

Husband: 💀

#FourthWing #books #reading

I finished editing my #motorcycleclubromance / #darkromance manuscript (again) this morning and now I'm using a planner I nabbed on sale to make sure all the events in the book flow right on the calendar.

Who needs fairy tales when you have #DarkRomance? Give me a morally gray villain who’d burn the world down for the woman he loves. Who are your favorite MMCs?

Mine are:
💀 Graves from Bad Bad Man
💀 Viper from Pretty Monster
💀 Gabriel from Wolf.e
💀 Rowan from Butcher & Blackbird

If this is how you react when you see a long list of trigger warnings at the start of a new book, let's be friends.

#darkromance #romancereads #motorcycleclubromance #reading #books

Strong stories are the fuel that propels the communications engine. Read my latest article in PRSA's Strategies & Tactics to learn how to develop a robust story-mining process within your organization.

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I'm looking for beta readers to give me feedback on my latest novel, a #darkromance about a PR consultant who finds herself working for an outlaw motorcycle club.

Learn more: www.rachelesterlineauthor.com/beta-readers/

Last night I had a dream about my dad, who died three years ago. In the dream, he had passed a roadside stand with a sign that said $5 for a dozen eggs and he expressed to me that he thought it was crazy.

So, I told him that eggs in the store were more than that now ... Strange dream.

I read this with fascination...with a bit of writer admiration for one of the headers: "Seeing a sabertooth fur real"

I've been on this platform for all of 30 minutes, but here is what I love: Finding new people...Threads is basically just a rehash of my Instagram and X is, well, you all know ...

I'm interested in #archaeology, #folklore, #novelwriting, #art and #ancientcultures.

My latest watercolor pet portrait (left is original photo, right is my painting).

A friend asked what I'd charge to paint her friend's dog for a gift. But, I've realized that charging for a commission takes away my joy for painting. So I now work for food 🤣 I told her she can buy lunch next time.

New here ... By day, I lead a #marketing team at a national nonprofit. In my free time, I'm a #watercolor artist, a writer and a dog mom to Kimber, a German Shepherd mix, and Ranger, a Cattle Dog x Malinois x Dutchie. This is one of my newest paintings. I'm learning loose landscape techniques.