A Brave Dragon Must Rescue A Handsome Knight From An Evil Princess.

As someone who works in a bookstore I will say the HEA rule for romance will probably always apply but I think the monster lovers are coming out of the closet(or maybe cave). More people are admitting to reading it, so more readers are talking about it and recommending it.

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🌼 -- least favorite genre to write

SO I'm actually gonna say Romance and Erotica, which is a shame because I actually enjoy writing romance and sex, but I find the expectations readers have for those genres to be so strict that I don't think I'd enjoy writing a ROMANCE novel if you get me

like I see romancelandia refusing to accept or read books with characters that don't look a certain way -- last I saw people were outright saying they just recast every man as Henry Cavill if he doesn't have That Look or refusing to read it if he doesnt and I dislike that a lot? Like obvi I get people will see characters as they do but to get a character description that like, you don't like and just deciding oh he's Henry Cavill now, idk man

I also really dislike the requirement for every book to have a happily ever after or a happy for now to be Hella stifling because it limits what KINDS of romance I can write, maybe I wanna write something more tragic idk

the rigid and strict expectations and refusal to accept deviations in the genre make writing for it feel really stifling and unsatisfying, but that's just me -- I know a lot of folks love writing it snd hey that's great, I just don't don't enjoy it personally

Apparently the heat wave is thanks to my customer who told me she was praying for the ridge of high pressure that is keeping the heat in because it’s also keeping hurricanes away. I’m not saying there were virgins sacrificed, but the way she said “I’ll do just about anything to make sure we don’t get another storm.” makes me think there was at least one😳

Halloween Party

I’ve fallen behind in my weekly writing prompts, with a bit of writers’ block. Hopefully, this conquered it and I’ll be back in my groove. Happy Halloween!  I should have known better than to wear wings to a Halloween party. The left one was handing by a bit of glittery fabric and the right was bent flat against my back. Why was I even dressed like a fairy anyway? This was the first year that I…

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Very deep meaning

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Friedrich Nietzsche, Good and Evil (via books-n-quotes)

Green Bay Press-Gazette, Wisconsin, December 19, 1946

Sword of Heaven and Hell

This is a short story introducing characters for a YA series—

The sun shining through a crack in the blinds, woke Logan out of a sound sleep. The soft whir of the air conditioner, was the only thing that broke the silence. It was summer and he’d done his best to be able to sleep in. He had even stapled the curtains shut but, every morning the sun found a way through. He suspected that his mom had…

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Character Idea

She stepped off the train and peered around her, unsure of where she was. It was what she wanted, but the feeling of doubt is not so easily shaken off.

A lovely review

via Short Story Review- Of Love Potions and Wishes By Catherine Rose

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