I really enjoyed this talk by Leigh Bardugo on creativity and discomfort. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCtb...

The art of discomfort | Leigh Bardugo | TEDxUCDavis

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I read Kick at the Darkness by Suleikha Snyder. It's a zombie apocalypse novella, yet so emotionally intense, and the central couple has such history and a complex romantic journey, and the HEA is so fulfilling despite the bleak world... HOW?! I love reading skillful romance. This genre is hard.

I've been watching too many video essays on YouTube (at least my social media addiction is educational! etc) & one of them mentioned this concept about the degradation of a symbol's meaning, e.g. cow becomes beef burger becomes burger-flavoured doritos? Anyway this 80s pop revival feels like that.

do me a favor and repost/share this? 🙏🏿 just need 6 more souls who might be into werewolf smut with middle-aged sluts. 😌

I get asked this question all the time by friends and acquaintances and yes, this is real...I have no idea how many "pages" my books are. 😅 #mmromance #gayromance #writerslife

Ummm, YES! This is giving me cozy gothic. I am excited.

Stephanie Burgis@stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 11mo ago

In happy news, I just finished going through copyedits for A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence! It'll arrive on my Patreon ( patreon.com/stephanieburgis ) this Friday morning. Woot! ❤️🦇❤️ And it's all set to release widely on September 29. Preorder here: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave #romancelandia

I feel like I'm on a desert island writing messages in the sand here but please, if anyone sees this, tell me how to search for people on this app because I have found like 2% of the folks I used to follow on the App That Shall Not Be Named and I am struggling.

I thought apocalyptic romance would blow up right after the pandemic but in hindsight, the feelings were a little too fresh. Now we are five years out and the angst is ready to bubble to the surface. I for one am devouring this stuff and searching for more.

On today's list of things I can't wait to read, a group of the genre's most innovative authors is releasing a post-apocalyptic romance collab www.kickstarter.com/projects/ahp...

After the End: A Dystopian Romance Collection

Eight original stories exploring love after the end of the world. After The End, we'll still have HEAs.

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