R.M. Romero

@rmromeroauthor.bsky.social

🌊 THE TEAR COLLECTOR (LYBR) 🧜🏻‍♀️ THE MERMAID OF WARSAW (Summer 2027, Peachtree Teen) 📕 Rep: Patricia Nelson 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇺 🧿 ✡️ 🍉 🇺🇦 https://linktr.ee/rmromeroauthor

Young King Arthur & the Round Table Knights by Cara Aisling The Ice Princess’s Fair Illusion by S.L. Dove Cooper Death’s Country by R.M. Romero Havisham by Elle Machray Briar Girls by Rebecca Kim Wells

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It’s been a minute. I’ve had my nose to the grindstone editing my summer 2027 YA novel, THE MERMAID OF WARSAW, a dark retelling of “The Little Mermaid” set during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. And yes, the mermaid does punch a lot of Nazis…

A collage of images about a dark historical fantasy retelling of “The Little Mermaid”

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

Keep Minnesota Housed!
Much of the medía has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction.
Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds!
#keepMNhoused

I’m Jewish. I’ve been to Auschwitz seven times. I’ve been to Dachau, Treblinka, Hadamar, Majdanek, and more mass graves than I care to mention. I’ve worked with Auschwitz Survivors specifically. I’ve spoken to Polish school children about the Shoah. I know what I’m seeing.

On the left, an unknown little boy being arrested by the Nazis during the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943. On the right, a little boy named Liam Ramos being arrested by ICE in Minneapolis in 2026.

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 9mo ago

A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.

emerging from my bluesky slumber to say i'm offering 3(!) commission slots* for 20% off if you have characters who are: -POC -visually disabled/have visual differences -visibly trans -fat/plus-sized! *prioritizing commissions with characters that fit multiple of these categories and/or are queer!

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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.