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Big Book/Writing Community News

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  It’s the end of an era. NaNoWriMo announces their closure today. What a loss to the book and writing community.

Old Flames and New Fortunes by Sarah Hogle

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  Buy on Amazon Rating: 3.5/5 (Rounding up to 4 for Goodreads, Amazon, etc) Spice: 2/5 Plot: 3/5 Primary Genre: Paranormal/Fantasy Romance Blurb: A small, magical town tucked away in rural Ohio, Moonville is the perfect place for flora fortunist Romina Tempest to expand her shop, where she uses the language of flowers to help the hopeful manifest their love lives. After giving up on her own big romance eleven years ago, at least she can bask in the promise of others’. So, when the shop’s potential financier shares news of his wedding, Romina jumps on the opportunity to discuss buying the business. What better place to negotiate a deal than at a wedding, even if she has to fake-date her chaotic colleague Trevor to get an invitation? But all hell breaks loose when she discovers Trevor’s soon-to-be stepbrother is none other than Alex, her high school sweetheart. Her greatest love. The boy who, eleven years ago, broke her heart, and who now thinks she and Trevor are dating. W...

Summer in the City by Alex Aster

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Rating: 4/5  Spice: 1.5/5 Plot: 3/5 Primary Genre: Contemporary Romance Blurb: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Aster comes her adult debut novel Summer in the City—a swoony, fast-paced rom-com set in New York City in which a screenwriter and a sexy tech CEO go from lovers to enemies and back to lovers again… Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter Elle has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She’s had writer’s block for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer. In a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she swore she would never return to, in an apartment she could never afford (floor-to-ceiling windows, skyline views, and a new coffee shop to haunt included). It’s the perfect place to write her screenplay…until she realizes her new neighbor is tech “Billionaire Bachelor” Parker Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It’s been a lovers-to-enemies situation eve...

Book News For Romance Lovers

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  Calling all dark romance lovers. There’s a pre-order book available on Amazon by H.D. Carlton! “Title and placeholder coming soon.” There is a placeholder release date of March 20, 2026. Check it out below Buy on Amazon Are you a Lightlark fan like me? Alex Aster has her first adult contemporary romcom releasing next week! I had the pleasure of doing an ARC read so I’ll be posting a review soon but if you’re a romance fan or an Alex Aster fan, you’ll probably want to pick it up. Check it out below. Buy on Amazon So I know that Ali Hazelwood recently announced the sequel to bride but she’s got another book on Amazon available for pre-order with a pub date of May 27, 2025 (maybe that’s a placeholder date, I’m unsure.) The title is Problematic Summer Romance. There’s a blurb and everything! And you know how I love me some Ali Hazelwood. Goodreads lists it as Not In Love #2. I’m aware that it says “No image available” but that’s literally how it appears on Amazon at the moment. Check...

Free Book Friday - but make it every day

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  My free book Fridays have kind of fallen off, mostly because they’re so time consuming. I wanted to let all of my readers know that there are a few sites available that allow you to sign up for daily emails listing free kindle books. You can download and read these even if you don’t have a Kindle because Amazon has a kindle cloud reader which is a web browser that allows you to read your kindle books, as well as the kindle app which allows you to read your books on your smartphone or tablet. Check out the links to the website for free kindle books below! BookBub This website will send you daily emails with a list of books that are in your favorite genres or by authors that you follow that are discounted or free. Make sure to sign up for an account and sign up for daily emails to get the list of free books in your inbox every day! Get the free book here Free Booksy This site is specifically a newsletter site, it’s only purpose is to list free or discounted kindle books. Once you s...