I read the first 2 books a few years ago and I really like them! I’m rereading them so I can read the whole series back to back. I’m not a romatasy girly but I love the MC Keira and the world building
January 6, 2026 at 11:55 AM
I read the first 2 books a few years ago and I really like them! I’m rereading them so I can read the whole series back to back. I’m not a romatasy girly but I love the MC Keira and the world building
And the finale!
I just liked these. Not category or reason. Just Enjoyment.
Shade of Magic series is surreal and magical and beautiful.
Kiss of Iron is romatasy done right.
Nocticadia is a dark academia with a little bit of horror. It's wonderful.
Knight and the Moth is whimsical
1/2
#booksky
I just liked these. Not category or reason. Just Enjoyment.
Shade of Magic series is surreal and magical and beautiful.
Kiss of Iron is romatasy done right.
Nocticadia is a dark academia with a little bit of horror. It's wonderful.
Knight and the Moth is whimsical
1/2
#booksky
December 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
And the finale!
I just liked these. Not category or reason. Just Enjoyment.
Shade of Magic series is surreal and magical and beautiful.
Kiss of Iron is romatasy done right.
Nocticadia is a dark academia with a little bit of horror. It's wonderful.
Knight and the Moth is whimsical
1/2
#booksky
I just liked these. Not category or reason. Just Enjoyment.
Shade of Magic series is surreal and magical and beautiful.
Kiss of Iron is romatasy done right.
Nocticadia is a dark academia with a little bit of horror. It's wonderful.
Knight and the Moth is whimsical
1/2
#booksky
I really enjoyed this series. Her writing style has changed a bit over the years, and I’ve been less into her recent stuff, but this is back to the more traditional fantasy/adventure style she used to do. Before romatasy took over the whole genre. 😂
December 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I really enjoyed this series. Her writing style has changed a bit over the years, and I’ve been less into her recent stuff, but this is back to the more traditional fantasy/adventure style she used to do. Before romatasy took over the whole genre. 😂
is there room for magical realism romatasy handler hound scp inspired sapphic dead dove darling's killed agegap yuri transgender romance with polyamory characteristics in this dang age.
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
is there room for magical realism romatasy handler hound scp inspired sapphic dead dove darling's killed agegap yuri transgender romance with polyamory characteristics in this dang age.
Deler her fordi jeg vet mange av dere elsker romatasy og monster romanse! 😍 "Owin Undring: Skyggevenn" er en ny norsk tegneserie av @spintherella.bsky.social som kan forhåndsbestilles hos ARK nå!!
www.ark.no/produkt/boke...
www.ark.no/produkt/boke...
December 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Deler her fordi jeg vet mange av dere elsker romatasy og monster romanse! 😍 "Owin Undring: Skyggevenn" er en ny norsk tegneserie av @spintherella.bsky.social som kan forhåndsbestilles hos ARK nå!!
www.ark.no/produkt/boke...
www.ark.no/produkt/boke...
Happy Friday! This week's newsletter is live (finally.) 💖⚙️📚
Here's what's inside:
📚 BTS of the first Fables and Flames Romatasy Gala (@fablesandflames was amazing!!)
📚 My next virtual event with Strong Women Strange Worlds!
🔗 Read here: news.kelseyjosephson.com/p/bts-of-fab...
#BookSky
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Here's what's inside:
📚 BTS of the first Fables and Flames Romatasy Gala (@fablesandflames was amazing!!)
📚 My next virtual event with Strong Women Strange Worlds!
🔗 Read here: news.kelseyjosephson.com/p/bts-of-fab...
#BookSky
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BTS of Fables and Flames, My First Ever Author Tea Party and... 💖⚙️📚
🎁 A NEW fun, bookish (and probably unhinged) virtual event on December 13th!
news.kelseyjosephson.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Happy Friday! This week's newsletter is live (finally.) 💖⚙️📚
Here's what's inside:
📚 BTS of the first Fables and Flames Romatasy Gala (@fablesandflames was amazing!!)
📚 My next virtual event with Strong Women Strange Worlds!
🔗 Read here: news.kelseyjosephson.com/p/bts-of-fab...
#BookSky
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Here's what's inside:
📚 BTS of the first Fables and Flames Romatasy Gala (@fablesandflames was amazing!!)
📚 My next virtual event with Strong Women Strange Worlds!
🔗 Read here: news.kelseyjosephson.com/p/bts-of-fab...
#BookSky
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Amelia Thornheart (novel cover for Keene) Via Vgen
#LitRPG #YAfantasy #vgencomm #indieauthor #isekainovel
#coverart #bookillustration #art #commissions #artcommissions
#LitRPG #YAfantasy #vgencomm #indieauthor #isekainovel
#coverart #bookillustration #art #commissions #artcommissions
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Amelia Thornheart (novel cover for Keene) Via Vgen
#LitRPG #YAfantasy #vgencomm #indieauthor #isekainovel
#coverart #bookillustration #art #commissions #artcommissions
#LitRPG #YAfantasy #vgencomm #indieauthor #isekainovel
#coverart #bookillustration #art #commissions #artcommissions
Saw this today, chuckled as I know quite a few people who would appreciate it
(so long as I could confirm it's not AI, the lack of author/artist is sus) #coloringbook #romatasy #romance
(so long as I could confirm it's not AI, the lack of author/artist is sus) #coloringbook #romatasy #romance
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Saw this today, chuckled as I know quite a few people who would appreciate it
(so long as I could confirm it's not AI, the lack of author/artist is sus) #coloringbook #romatasy #romance
(so long as I could confirm it's not AI, the lack of author/artist is sus) #coloringbook #romatasy #romance
seeing romatasy talk here
if it weren't for me going to my hs library and stumbling upon throne of glass, i would NOT have started writing again. or even reading as much as I do. Cause I started the series, caught up, and then she released ACOTAR and it opened up so much for me.
if it weren't for me going to my hs library and stumbling upon throne of glass, i would NOT have started writing again. or even reading as much as I do. Cause I started the series, caught up, and then she released ACOTAR and it opened up so much for me.
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
seeing romatasy talk here
if it weren't for me going to my hs library and stumbling upon throne of glass, i would NOT have started writing again. or even reading as much as I do. Cause I started the series, caught up, and then she released ACOTAR and it opened up so much for me.
if it weren't for me going to my hs library and stumbling upon throne of glass, i would NOT have started writing again. or even reading as much as I do. Cause I started the series, caught up, and then she released ACOTAR and it opened up so much for me.
The Prisoner of Zenda is arguably a romatasy (imaginary country, the male main character is the less practical, more emotional one in the central romance…)
October 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The Prisoner of Zenda is arguably a romatasy (imaginary country, the male main character is the less practical, more emotional one in the central romance…)
A romance novel and a romatasy novel are likely to have somewhat different sweet spot lengths. Once you pinpoint your exact sub-genre you want your novel to be 'around' that optimized book length. While writing, track your word count ongoing to see where you are.
#writingcommunity #booksky #words
#writingcommunity #booksky #words
October 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A romance novel and a romatasy novel are likely to have somewhat different sweet spot lengths. Once you pinpoint your exact sub-genre you want your novel to be 'around' that optimized book length. While writing, track your word count ongoing to see where you are.
#writingcommunity #booksky #words
#writingcommunity #booksky #words
Not every fantasy novel nowadays has to be romatasy.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Not every fantasy novel nowadays has to be romatasy.
I'm like 90% done, but if you like enemies to lovers, romantasy, a hot obligate man-eater with fangs, 🥵, lgbt representstion, and a cool multi-plane world concept then I 100% recommend Voidwalker by S. A. MacLean. I'm tearing through it I love the characters sm😭🥲😻 #booksky #romatasy #voidwalker
September 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I'm like 90% done, but if you like enemies to lovers, romantasy, a hot obligate man-eater with fangs, 🥵, lgbt representstion, and a cool multi-plane world concept then I 100% recommend Voidwalker by S. A. MacLean. I'm tearing through it I love the characters sm😭🥲😻 #booksky #romatasy #voidwalker
Thought I'd do a Q&A for my new Book Champion of A'dara coming soon. Free to read.
#booksky #writers #newbooks #authors #romatasy
open.substack.com/pub/jshyder/...
#booksky #writers #newbooks #authors #romatasy
open.substack.com/pub/jshyder/...
Q&A with the author
That's me that is!
open.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Last rp. Thats seriously the thing that pisses me off the most about people fanning the flames over ‘spice’ in romatasy books and going OMG can you believe this??? When its hardly left of vanilla.
September 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Last rp. Thats seriously the thing that pisses me off the most about people fanning the flames over ‘spice’ in romatasy books and going OMG can you believe this??? When its hardly left of vanilla.
Had my phone connected to the car, listening to a gay romatasy audiobook on our trip. Hubby gets call on his phone and answers, forgetting his phone isnt connected to the car. So the nice lady calling to confirm our appointments heard, loudly, “ONCE YOU GO DRAGON, ALL THE REST IS LAGGIN’”. 😬🤦🏼♂️
September 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Had my phone connected to the car, listening to a gay romatasy audiobook on our trip. Hubby gets call on his phone and answers, forgetting his phone isnt connected to the car. So the nice lady calling to confirm our appointments heard, loudly, “ONCE YOU GO DRAGON, ALL THE REST IS LAGGIN’”. 😬🤦🏼♂️
I saw someone give a negative review to an enemies to lovers romatasy because "he was too mean to her."
Honey that's the POINT. It's *ENEMIES* to lovers, not besties to soul mates. What's it like to have only ever had healthy relationships?? 😭
Honey that's the POINT. It's *ENEMIES* to lovers, not besties to soul mates. What's it like to have only ever had healthy relationships?? 😭
August 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I saw someone give a negative review to an enemies to lovers romatasy because "he was too mean to her."
Honey that's the POINT. It's *ENEMIES* to lovers, not besties to soul mates. What's it like to have only ever had healthy relationships?? 😭
Honey that's the POINT. It's *ENEMIES* to lovers, not besties to soul mates. What's it like to have only ever had healthy relationships?? 😭
All this talk of #romatasy frame work for Daggerheart & tusk love. I would like to offer an alternative #bluerose #ttrpg it’s the 2nd edition using the age system from @greenroninpub.bsky.social it has stunts, cool species and swashbuckling duels. They even have a #5e conversion book (not pictured)
August 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
All this talk of #romatasy frame work for Daggerheart & tusk love. I would like to offer an alternative #bluerose #ttrpg it’s the 2nd edition using the age system from @greenroninpub.bsky.social it has stunts, cool species and swashbuckling duels. They even have a #5e conversion book (not pictured)
The worst, worst part about “have a wonderful secret” is that it sounds like it’s a line from some shitty YA romatasy series.
Like it’s what the elves tell the heroine, a bookish human teen who doesn’t realize how powerful & beautiful she is, before she goes into battle.
Like it’s what the elves tell the heroine, a bookish human teen who doesn’t realize how powerful & beautiful she is, before she goes into battle.
July 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The worst, worst part about “have a wonderful secret” is that it sounds like it’s a line from some shitty YA romatasy series.
Like it’s what the elves tell the heroine, a bookish human teen who doesn’t realize how powerful & beautiful she is, before she goes into battle.
Like it’s what the elves tell the heroine, a bookish human teen who doesn’t realize how powerful & beautiful she is, before she goes into battle.
If I could open up a bookstore that focuses on Black romatasy authors… that would be a dream.
July 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
If I could open up a bookstore that focuses on Black romatasy authors… that would be a dream.
This week in Lit Lit news: our summer series has begun with A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, the first book in the Shades of Magic series. There are alternate versions of London, clever thieves, blood magic, but NOT romatasy, dammit!
(maybe...probably)
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open.spotify.com/episode/4JwO...
(maybe...probably)
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open.spotify.com/episode/4JwO...
277 Lit Lit - A Jumping Shark and a Hot Magician
Lit Lit · Episode
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July 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This week in Lit Lit news: our summer series has begun with A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, the first book in the Shades of Magic series. There are alternate versions of London, clever thieves, blood magic, but NOT romatasy, dammit!
(maybe...probably)
📚💙
open.spotify.com/episode/4JwO...
(maybe...probably)
📚💙
open.spotify.com/episode/4JwO...
This week in Lit Lit news: our summer series has begun with A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, the first book in the Shades of Magic series. There are alternate versions of London, clever thieves, blood magic, but NOT romatasy, dammit!
(maybe...probably)
📚💙
open.spotify.com/episode/4JwO...
(maybe...probably)
📚💙
open.spotify.com/episode/4JwO...
277 Lit Lit - A Jumping Shark and a Hot Magician
Lit Lit · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This week in Lit Lit news: our summer series has begun with A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, the first book in the Shades of Magic series. There are alternate versions of London, clever thieves, blood magic, but NOT romatasy, dammit!
(maybe...probably)
📚💙
open.spotify.com/episode/4JwO...
(maybe...probably)
📚💙
open.spotify.com/episode/4JwO...
No, no, si en realidad el comentario no iba por ese camino (creo), es solo que alguien desconocido ha visto un fragmento de una novela de erótica A SECAS y le ha dicho a otra persona (tb desconocida) que hablaba de romatasy: ten, pa que te inspires. Y me he quedado a lo 🧍🏼♀️
July 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
No, no, si en realidad el comentario no iba por ese camino (creo), es solo que alguien desconocido ha visto un fragmento de una novela de erótica A SECAS y le ha dicho a otra persona (tb desconocida) que hablaba de romatasy: ten, pa que te inspires. Y me he quedado a lo 🧍🏼♀️
well i honestly think romatasy has a sort of pulp verve to it and is far from the worst offender in lifeless genera fiction
July 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
well i honestly think romatasy has a sort of pulp verve to it and is far from the worst offender in lifeless genera fiction