Was in LA and Houston for a few days in January, and managed to make some bookish visits to places. My main stop in LA was The Ripped Bodice, an indie, romance-focused bookstore. It was my second time to visit […]
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The story so far: We’ve been writing romance novels that we publish internationally. Many of our favorite international romance books for the past few decades have photos or real people’s faces on the covers. Many of us started with art illustrations […]
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#romanceclass will be watching Jef Flores’s musical Flashcard Tangle, and selling books at the theater! January 12 and 13, Power Mac Center Spotlight, Circuit Makati.
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I read 92 books in 2018. 92! That’s probably my best rate in years, and that doesn’t even include re-reads, standalone short fiction, komiks, zines, completed/serial online fiction, pre-publication #romanceclass reads. I won’t be listing all of the titles, and […]
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Yes it’s possible, apparently, to indie-pub a romance book and see it acquired by libraries. If you use Smashwords (and opt into Overdrive for digital books), Findaway Voices (for audio books), and CreateSpace (now Amazon print, for print books) then […]
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Wrote this in February 2017 for April at The Reading Belles. Part of something that isn’t really anything just yet. Do I even want to do this…? It took me seven days out of ten to make my way to this […]
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I released one new contemporary romance book this year. I had originally typed that sentence to include “only” but that makes it seem like a disappointment. One new book a year, or every few years, is fine–it really is! I’m happy […]
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We did the poster reveals on Patreon, and today on Instagram and Twitter, so now I can talk about it: We produced a thing. Three things. Specifically, short video adaptations of scenes from #romanceclass books by me, Jay E. Tria, […]
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Ah, the TBR. We all have our huge to-be-read piles. I’ve always felt that anyone giving my books a chance has done so because they’re kind enough to pull a new-to-them author’s book out of their pile, and now I’m very aware of doing the same, when deciding my next read. Many of them on this list are not new authors, and come highly recommended by friends, so the qualifier is “new to me.” Warning: this strategy opens up worlds of beauty; it does not reduce the number of books to be read.
Here are my new-to-me authors in 2018:
continue reading...This is an excerpt from the draft of a short story I wrote, that’ll be part of an anthology with some lovely #romanceclass authors. More details soon! Since this is from the draft, some details may change in the final. […]
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