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195d

Lovely interview at Bookpage with K.J. Charles, to coincide with the U.S. release of her newest historical book, _How to Fake It in Society_

#Romancelandia @bookstodon

https://www.bookpage.com/interviews/kj-charles-interview-how-to-fake-it-in-society/

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If you're wondering whether you should subscribe to Felicia Davin's "Word Suitcase" newsletter, this is why: they do take ALL their reading seriously (it's a love letter to reading, particularly genre romance)

#Romancelandia @bookstodon

https://www.feliciadavin.com/i-take-all-my-reading-seriously/

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161d

K.J. Charles on Bluesky: "Stuck on this ridiculous island? Why not retreat into a fictional past that makes sense? Gay historical romance 99p!

--1920s, uptight cop x stroppy graphologist, conspiracy shenanigans
--Regency, scammer fashionista x newly rich introvert, everyone's out for something

On sale in the UK!"

#SALE #Romancelandia @bookstodon

Flyer on Union Jack background with covers of Copper Script and How To Fake It In Society, and text saying "UK sale today, 99p"

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173d

Death notice

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K.J. Charles is I'm doing a panel on writing queer histrom at 3pm, signing at Forbidden Planet, and the After Hours romance shindig on Friday May 22 at MCM Comic Con. Authors Stephanie Burgis, Sarah Rees Brennan, R.J. Barker and Talia Hibbert will also be there.

#ComicCon #Romancelandia @bookstodon

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187d

I have just finished setting up pre-orders for my October debut: a Gothic fairytale about a mad scientist vampire obsessed with an Arab violinist on a planet without a sun as a god of nightmares laughs on.

It also includes classical music references and medieval Arabic poetry translations done by me. If you're interested and want to support a #SWANA author I'd really appreciate it:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GXGG2TLY

@bookstodon @medievodons #darkromance #romancelandia #romantasyreads #amreading

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183d

Another magnificent essay by genre romance author Suleikha Snyder, on writing sex scenes, and why that matters (tl;dr: it's character work, even when it's 'gratuitous')

#Writing #GenreRomance #WritingSex #Romancelandia @bookstodon

https://romancing-the-stoned.beehiiv.com/p/no-f-ck-is-an-island

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178d

When you wish you were a scholar (and/or had more than two tired spoons to function): a call for papers on GENRE ROMANCE!

Deadline for abstracts: May 25.

@bookstodon #Reading #Writing #Romancelandia #PopularCultureStudies

More information at Dr Laura Vivanco's wonderful "Teach Me Tonight" blog:

https://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2026/05/call-for-papers-pacific-ancient-and.html

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170d

Good morning, #Romancelandia; I had occasion to write about historical accuracy and 'modern sensibilities'.

#RomBkBlog @bookstodon

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/on-historical-accuracy-a-short-rant/

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170d

Heads up, #Romancelandia! Via #CanadaFictionFest: "Our #FictionFest live sessions kick off on June 21st at 12:00pm EDT with a panel discussion on #Romance as a genre! Register now and we'll send you an email reminder so you don't miss it. ive sessions are FREE and online so anyone in the world can attend!"

#Writing #Authors @bookstodon

https://fictionfest.ca/events

Banner for the Fiction Fest panel discussion: "Falling in Love with Love: Why Romance?" featuring authors Nathan Burgoine, Mimi Flood, and Renée Gendron, and host Steve Hugh Westenra.

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215d

Speaking of dystopias...

Via Bree, half of Kit Rocha:
"Once upon a time Donna and I wrote a trilogy about book nerds in a dystopian future who just wanted to build a library but the tech bros wouldn't stop being evil so they did community organizing & crimes.

They are ON SALE this month for $2.99!"

#Romancelandia #ScienceFictionRomance

https://www.kitrocha.com/series/mercenary-librarians/

The ebook covers for Deal with the Devil, The Devil you Know, and Dance with the Devil. All three are on sale for $2.99 each in April.

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149d

Via author Sandra Schwab:
The Gladiator's Passion is on sale for USD 2.99 for the summer!

If you like historical romances with unusual settings, grumpy/sunshine, moody cats, and itty-bitty dogs, then this book is for you!

Buy link: https://buy.bookfunnel.com/qzyg52t44f

The Gladiator's Passion is currently part of a showcase of historical romances written by indie authors or published by small presses. Check out the other books here:

https://books.bookfunnel.com/romanceforhistorynerds/dcmpryr36r

#SALE #Reading #Romancelandia @bookstodon

Promo image for Gladiator's Passion with the cover image in the middle. It shows a young, freckled man with red hair and something that resembles gladiatorial armor. To the left of the cover is a list with themes and tropes:
Roman antiquity
grumpy gladiator
sunshiny military doctor
seduction via boardgame
it's just sex, right? Right?!?!?
passionate kissing against doors
To the right of the cover is a snippet from a Kobo review: "The author's research draws you into her stories, then her wonderful characters and storylines completely steal your heart."

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Another giant introduction

This will have links in it because I am using my website more and more these days.

I've been here in the Fedi since 2017. You can listen to an interview at the link below.

I am a totally blind man and I've contributed a lot of my free time and labor to improving Fediverse spaces, including, but not limited to, documentation. Software design, non-code contributions, community based disability solutions.

I'm a blind and gay writer. I keep a blog. I call it my soul on the internet because you won’t get the same thing every time. I write huge rants. I write short narrative stories about eating ice cream like it's the first time I'm having an orgasm. I write lyrical musings about crying in the shower. I pen essays about battling with a smart fridge. You'll never get just one thing with me and my website.

As for fiction, I write M/M Romance featuring blind and or disabled people, because disabled people deserve happy endings too. My romances generally always have a HEA instead of an HFN. I'm not the best with series. I also tend to enjoy doing novellas rather than full length novels, but I do novels as well. It's just that novellas are my comfort zone.

My Romances are quite angsty. They ask a lot of questions of the reader, and they feature things I'm extremely proud of, like in my young adult Romances I feature things like supportive gay dads to a teenager. I don't shy away from potentially triggering subjects because it mirrors my own life.

That being said, if you don't like angsty Romances, I'm probably not your author but I also pen happy Romances too, like one I just finished where a Chef that's lost his sense of taste falls in love with a Blind taste tester because of a job he put out onto the internet. I love exploring dynamics such as that in a very slow, character centric, way.

My blog/website has everything about me. It's the best way to get inside of my head. I don't use video based spaces often because I'm blind so video spaces really don't interest me.

My blog is also a podcast for folks that prefer listening to reading.

I listen to podcasts religiously, especially fiction podcasts. Learn about my podcasts I listen to at https://sightlessscribbles.com/podroll/

I'm an audiobook reader.

Learn about all my reading things and reading favorites at https://sightlessscribbles.com/reading/

Answering other asked questions with my FAQ page at https://sightlessscribbles.com/faq/

Some additional things that bring me profound joy.

Boy bands. Anime. Video games. Nerd media. Cookies. Video game music. Chocolate. Ice cream. Cats. Listening to audio only let’s Plays via podcasts. Cookies. Yes, I said it twice! That's how much I love them!

I rarely wear clothes that match. I wear things for comfort. Fabrics that feel good to me.

I take extensive social media breaks, especially in the summer/fall time because that's when I'm doing events, hanging out with offline people, and terrorizing my local town.

I'm huge into local activism and local change because I believe that all local progress, especially on a mass scale, will cause national politics to buck up and maybe actually do things for its voter base.

I'm a tech geek that hates everything tech culture. I also hate everything hustle culture. Influencer culture. Bletch.

As for links, I shared some above but the only two links of mine you'll need are below but I also included an interview link below.

My podcast, https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/

My website. https://sightlessscribbles.com/

Interview with me on Fediverse accessibility https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/robert-kingett-accessibility-in-the-fediverse

#Accessibility #Intro #Introduction #Introductions #Fediverse #Mastodon #Romance #RomanceLandia

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I am the worst Romance hero ever.

So, a bit of backstory for the new followers. For months now, I've been communicating with a neighbor via letters typed out in text files—in his case Word document—and yes it is a wonderful plot out of a soon to be released Romance book. We started doing this because our emails were over saturated. We deliver the flash drive to each other in a bag after typing out our letters. We put the flash drive in a bag.

We sometimes leave goodies in the bag with the flash drive, like cookies, toothpaste, just extra goodies like cookies and such.

Today, he popped the question.

Do you want to come over for dinner sometime? I’d love to cook for the man I've come to know so well via text.

This is why I am no Romance hero.

Blushing redder than a fire engine, I giggled, nearly tripped on the air, nearly choked, collected myself, then I said,

That sounds great—I love to eat… I eat… uh, food!

His baritone giggle had me swooning as he said, “great. I’d love to make some… hmm, FOOD. For you.”
#Romance #RomanceLandia

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165d

"The joy was the point...the point was the happy ending. When (genre romance) is done well...it does a thing to your brain. I did not know I needed this." --Jacob Tierney

(it includes discussion specific to "Heated Rivalry", but it's more about queerness in media and society)

#HeatedRivalry #Romancelandia #GenreRomance #Reading #Writing @bookstodon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AdEPsJc1ms

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Found out I *really* enjoy writing bully Romance, dark Romance, and even pitch black Romance. Having disabled representation in my Bully Romances is extremely important to me, both as the bully and the non-bully. It's the highest form of irony ever since I am basically a quiet marshmellow in real life. #Romance #RomanceLandia

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Via Jodi McAlister on Bluesky: "Scholarly types! The call for papers for the next IASPR conference is now open. It'll be in Oviedo, Spain in June 2027 and the theme is Choosing Love, centering around hope and optimism in a world which often does not engender especially hopeful or optimistic feelings about the future."

#GenreRomanceStudies #IASPR #Romancelandia @bookstodon

Call for papers here:
https://www.iaspr.org/conferences/choosing-love-call-for-papers-iaspr-conference-2027/

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"Lifting the lid on Romance for Men (RFM) and the diversity of male readers who enjoy the genre. A fascinating (and dare we say, optimistic) article." --the Journal of Popular Romance Studies, on Bluesky

@bookstodon #Romancelandia #Reading

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/30/secret-lives-of-men-who-read-romance-books

secret-lives-of-men-who-read-romance-books

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I love the Romances I'm doing! Interviewing for these is tough work though. I'm sure there's other authors doing disability Romances but I feel passionate about these so wanted to do them. Romances with love interests with Coprolalia and DID and lesser known disabilities. Cerebral palsy, and others. I had to put two books aside because the projects were a tad too ambitious for me, but I hope when I've grown in fiction writing, I can come back to these stories. I'm doing things such as love interests with people that are allergic to light. Love interests that are housebound and or bed bound. I don’t want to talk about the two projects I had to stop, but I'm having worlds of fun with these. I interview a *LOT* of people and it makes all these stories better for it! #Romance #RomanceLandia

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