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Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 10h ago

Aug 5, 2010: happy & relieved to be writing fiction for the first time in 10yrs didn’t know if it was a short story, novel, or a collection of scenes but I felt like I HAD to write it or I’d forget I really was writing for me & often wonder if it should’ve stayed that way #writesky #romancelandia

Moodboard titled “Soulmates Saga” with seven images: A close up of a young woman’s face wearing a blue diamond pendant necklace. The back of a young woman at an easel, painting in an art studio. A young man playing the guitar in the dark. A close up of a young woman resting her head on her arm. A young couple standing in each other’s arms in a cornfield. A close up of a young man playing the piano. A young couple standing in a snow-covered field, kissing.

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person@nehayazmin.bsky.social · 4d ago

time travel back to August 1st 2010 with me, when I started writing Soulmates Saga 1 the idea didn’t come in a dream but the MMC came to me in that hazy moment between sleep and wakefulness #writesky blog on writing & publishing my contemporary #romancebooks: nehayazmin.medium.com/the-story-be...

Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · yesterday

"A perfect summer romance"? ARC readers *really* do say it much better than I do! Thank you @ treddenreader! 🫶 Oh, and yes: ARCs are still open. Sure you don't want one? The 🔗 is in my bio... #BookSky

Instagram post, captioned "July Reading Wrap": Standout vibes; 5 books, amongst which Only One Summer in Berlin: "A perfect summer romance"

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · yesterday

song 26 in Soulmates Saga Book 2 Soundtrack: Blackout by Muse for Chapter 43: Orbit youtu.be/dee3RSgUWiM

Muse - Blackout (Lyrics on Screen)

YouTube video by Bella Monroe

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · yesterday

ARC readers say it so much better than I do (pt. 3) Thank you @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social 🫶 #BookSky

Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · yesterday

ARC readers say it so much better than I do (pt. 2) Thank you @ AnaLindenAuthor 🫶 #BookSky

Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · yesterday

ARC readers say it so much better than I do (pt. 1) Thank you, @zsaffrynterra.bsky.social 🫶 #BookSky

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I'm loving it. I started listening to Hail Mary (audiobook) while doing the dishes and all I can think is how much I want to sit back down and read ONLY ONE SUMMER IN BERLIN on my kindle 😅

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · yesterday

contemporary romance is SO CUTE books2read.com/IISY1 #booksky #romancelandia #writesky

Mickey Black @authormickeyblack.bsky.social · 3d ago

The stakes have been lowered! 🍎 50 adds on Goodreads and I’ll send out an annotated ARC to one random person who proves they added the book. 🗡️ A stretch goal but 50 pre0rders and I will send a box of goodies to one random person who showed proof. Technically we have 14 of them.

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · yesterday

Aug 4, 2010: I was still writing the meet cute & getting to know the FMC MMC describes her as having sad eyes. “she has a tragic backstory?” I wondered. “what could it be?” The secret revealed itself much later the next scene I wrote was that weekend: their 2nd meeting☔️ #writesky #romancelandia

Couple moodboard with four images. A young couple sitting next to each other on a half-wall, holding their jackets above their heads to shelter from the rain. Close up of couple sitting opposite each other, the man’s hand on the woman’s knee and her hand on top of his. A young couple standing in each other’s arms in a cornfield. A young couple standing in a snow-covered field, kissing.

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person@nehayazmin.bsky.social · 5d ago

When did I start writing #romancebooks? August 1st, 2010✨ 16 years ago today! it was after a 10-year ‘writer’s block’ which was triggered by grief & depression, as explained in the below blog #writesky #booksky #indieauthor Blog CW: grief, depression, cancer nehayazmin.medium.com/block-178a3d...

Kirk Rafferty ✨is killing darlings✨ 📖@kirkrafferty.com · yesterday

MEAT BEES is out today, and y'all...this cover! 😍🐝 #BookSky

Dane Erbach@browntrowsers.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s pub day. MEAT BEES is out now from CLASH Books. I couldn’t be more proud of this book. I hope you give it a try.

Zsaffryn Terra @zsaffrynterra.bsky.social · 2d ago

The kitten requests everyone add WHEN MOUNTAINS CRUMBLE by Mickey Black onto their GR. He’s hoping to win the giveaway…

WHEN MOUNTAINS CRUMBLE by Mickey Black and the kitten

Mickey Black@authormickeyblack.bsky.social · 3d ago

The stakes have been lowered! 🍎 50 adds on Goodreads and I’ll send out an annotated ARC to one random person who proves they added the book. 🗡️ A stretch goal but 50 pre0rders and I will send a box of goodies to one random person who showed proof. Technically we have 14 of them.

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 2d ago

August 3rd 2010: wrote the meet cute as soon as I got home from work; it had played like a movie scene in my mind all day✨ I wanted to write it at the office (on my lunch break ofc) but was too self-conscious & I actually got to know the FMC through this scene, through the MMC’s eyes😏 #writesky

Character moodboard with four images: A close up of a young woman resting her head on her arm. The back of a young woman at an easel, painting in an art studio. A young woman in a bright red skirt and black top walking in a park, her head bowed. A young woman in a Leather Jacket with a sad expression on her face.

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person@nehayazmin.bsky.social · 4d ago

time travel back to August 1st 2010 with me, when I started writing Soulmates Saga 1 the idea didn’t come in a dream but the MMC came to me in that hazy moment between sleep and wakefulness #writesky blog on writing & publishing my contemporary #romancebooks: nehayazmin.medium.com/the-story-be...

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 4d ago

August 2nd, 2010: I was still writing the opening segment of Soulmates Saga #1, after getting home from work, exploring the MMC’s family dynamics & how they got there & writing what I *knew* about him, before I forgot, excited to see how he’d get himself out of the hole he’d dug himself #writesky

Character moodboard with four images, two of them are of a young man playing the guitar on a dark stage. The other two are close ups of a young man playing the piano and of writing sheet music.

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person@nehayazmin.bsky.social · 5d ago

When did I start writing #romancebooks? August 1st, 2010✨ 16 years ago today! it was after a 10-year ‘writer’s block’ which was triggered by grief & depression, as explained in the below blog #writesky #booksky #indieauthor Blog CW: grief, depression, cancer nehayazmin.medium.com/block-178a3d...

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Amaya is NOT the type to fall apart after the third act breakup😏 (thx TikTok for reminding me I was writing that scene in arrangementWIP this time last year) #romancebooks #writesky #booksky

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 4d ago

time travel back to August 1st 2010 with me, when I started writing Soulmates Saga 1 the idea didn’t come in a dream but the MMC came to me in that hazy moment between sleep and wakefulness #writesky blog on writing & publishing my contemporary #romancebooks: nehayazmin.medium.com/the-story-be...

The Story Behind My Debut Novel

My debut self-published novel, Every Little Piece of You (Soulmates Saga, Book 1), sprang to life from this bizarre vision I woke up with…

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Hope Engel 📚@hopeengel.com · 4d ago

I'm Hope and I just published my debut novel, At Your Pace. I am drafting a short story for a Valentine's Day anthology and editing the sequel to At You Pace! I started writing fiction novels in early 2025. I got my start doing playwriting and creative nonfiction in college 10+ years ago.

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 5d ago

Welcome to 🧡 Summer of Love 🧡 a daily prompt game for everyone writing in the romance genre! What's up? What are you working on? How long have you been writing? Tell us everything! Well, tell us enough 😅 I'm excited to chat with you this month. Don't forget to tag #SumLuv

Romance Writers Summer of Love #SumLuv @EllieYellu Day 1 Introductions: Welcome! Introduce yourself!

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 6d ago

DecemberWIP is a dual-timeline 2nd chance romance (don’t think I mentioned that) & this is my first #snippet from the Teen Timeline Mean Girls are talking about the FMC as tho she isn’t right THERE in the line to the bathroom with them, saying they don’t get what the MMC sees in her😠 #romancebooks

Before I duck into the bathroom, I make one last clarification. "I'm starting my degree at King's." I leave them with their mouths open or twisted into scowls. Yeah, I didn't need to name-drop my prestigious Uni, but when people take one look at your face and assume you can't speak English or are stupid and useless, you find yourself pointing out your credentials to prevent them from acting on their assumptions and hurting your feelings.

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 5d ago

from the archives

a quote from Heir to the Throne Book 3 by Neha Yazmin

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · 5d ago

#FridaySpark after discovering a family secret, Kavi makes a run for it. Guess who finds her? #snippet from my YA ROMCOM, QasamWIP #writesky #booksky #romancelandia

Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 5d ago

Really, just sayin’. No pressure at all.

Sidney Quinn - Author @sidneyquinn.bsky.social · 6d ago

An appeal! A queer regency romance in search of a new home. If you know of any agents or publishers who'd consider a former Wattpad Original, I'd love to send THE SECRET COURT their way! #booksky #amquerying #writesky #queerromance

My 71k Queer Regency Romance, THE SECRET COURT is in search of a new home! This book started as a Wattpad Original and completed a very competitve pitching process/rounds of editing. Unfortunately after a brief period of promiton, they stopped featuring it and my readership stagnated.
My rights are back to me as of August 1.

If you know of an agent or publisher who would consider looking at a story of queer joy, love, community, and the fight to keep hard-won rights, I’d love to hear about them! My pitch is Bridgerton x Red, White & Royal Blue.

My book’s status is odd. Some places consider it a reprint, while others don’t. It’s hard to know who might consider it.

I believe in Morgan and Liam’s story and I’d love to find it a new home with someone who would help bring it to the readership I fully believe it has.

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · last wk.

Track 20 in Soulmates Saga Book 2 Soundtrack: 2 Hearts by Kylie Minogue for Chapter 36: Doorbell youtu.be/6bCD0DsLcJk

Kylie Minogue - 2 Hearts, Lyrics In Video

YouTube video by Freshtopher

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 6d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Scarlett O'Hara Oh Fiddle-Dee-Dee

ALT: Scarlett O'Hara Oh Fiddle-Dee-Dee

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Jennifer's TBR is huge...@jdawson001.bsky.social · 7d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · last wk.

are they enemies if they don’t thre@ten each other like this? #booksky #FantasyBooks books2read.com/Aaryana1

Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 7d ago

I was just talking to my mom, telling her about romance tropes. She said Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the original "why choose".

Man Laughing and Covering Mouth

ALT: Man Laughing and Covering Mouth

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · last wk.

✨ Announcing pub day soon ✨ A disciplined French college student falls for leafy, laid-back post-Cold War Berlin—and for her reluctant host, a single dad reeling from a wrecked career and a failed marriage. The devastating catch? She can’t stay. There's still time to request an ARC... #BookSky 🌶️📚

Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · last wk.

I know what you're thinking... Little unknown book. It must be friends of hers. 💯 I consider them friends now. Know how we met? They asked to read Only One Summer in Berlin...

That stranger feeling of reading your very first reviews on a book site... 🥳🥹
Screenshot of a Goodreads review, screenshot of a Babelio review

Mike Mizov @mikemizov.bsky.social · last wk.

Some houses don’t just hold secrets. They keep them alive. Uncover the shifting rooms and dark family curses of Bradbury Manor. ARC of The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor on #NetGalley today! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... #GothicHorror #HorrorBooks #BookSky #ARCReading #HauntedHouse

The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · last wk.

“imagine making ‘yearning’ the MMC’s entire personality long before ‘yearning’ went ‘viral’” I don’t need to imagine it, I did it in 2011😏 books2read.com/SoulmatesSaga1 #booksky #romancelandia #writesky

Neha Yazmin🍉Author | Reader | Dessert Person @nehayazmin.bsky.social · last wk.

If someone said on the day Soulmates Saga Book 3 came out (10 years ago today) that a person in the UK would be reading it on its 10th anniversary, I’d have called them delulu😂 (it’s a LONG book; I don’t think they’ve finished it, if they started reading it on Friday) #booksky #romancelandia