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USA TODAY bestselling author of high heat, always sweet #monsterromance . Author of that Minotaur Book. Yep, that one.

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1 year
The Monsters Ball begins February 23rd! Have you pre-ordered yet?
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3 years
Friends, I totally understand you've been spoiled with 100k+ word fantasy romance novels, but that doesn't actually mean any book under 85k words is a novella. It just doesn't.
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1 year
"How do you respond to your bad reviews?" I don't. Because I don't read them. Because they're not there for me. Because I have better things to do with my time, like finishing my next book. See how easy that is?
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1 year
What's with all of the super bad takes in the past 2 weeks? Is there something in the water? If you don't like dark romance? DON'T READ DARK ROMANCE. If you don't like to read high steam? THEN DON'T. Jerking off to how superior Oscar Wilde is to romance is not a group activity
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C.M. Nascosta
3 years
SPEAKING OF! I've been spending a lot of time plotting out the entirety of Ris & Ainsley's arc & it's a pleasure spending time with such a cool, in-sync couple. No silly misunderstandings. No jealousy or shame. Just sex & respect & all the good vibes. (art by @CoinToMonster )
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1 year
I feel like I have said this more than a dozen times in the past few weeks about monster romance, but it is surreal to simultaneously be the butt of the joke and the thing everyone wants to copy
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2 years
Last night, someone who was one of my patrons for 24 hours scraped exclusive Patron-only content from my site and posted it on a discord server of 4k+ people, and then proceeded to play the victim when they were called out on it. Because they "didn't know posting best practices!"
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C.M. Nascosta
1 year
Real question, friends: How is owning a multitude of books you may or may not have read (yet) any different than any other hobby that requires *stuff*. How many of you have gym equipment doubling as coat racks? Kitchen gadgets lost to the abyss of the pantry closet?
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1 year
How To Marry A Marble Marquis is book 1 of the Monsters Ball series - The first three books all drop on February 23rd - have you pre-ordered yet?!
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8 months
I am completely obsessed with this cover 🖤 We're in the final few days before Hollow releases - pre-order now so you're ready to read on the 5th!
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C.M. Nascosta
2 years
While it's startling for a lot of you to see an author like Ruby Dixon have her books pulled from Amazon, it (& a slew of other bullshit) is something indies deal w every day. Wild they went after someone so big, but not surprising it happened. Hoping she gets it swiftly resolved
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1 year
Fall in love all over again with Violet and Rourke's romance . . . from the other side of the milking table. A BLUE RIBBON ROMANCE will be out this spring! Welcome home to Cambric Creek 💖
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1 year
I'm perplexed by the "How dare authors expect reviews for their ARCs" narrative. Why do you think you're getting a free book? We're not friends. This is a symbiotic parasocial relationship. If you don't want to read the book in 2 weeks you could just like, NOT sign up for an ARC
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10 months
If you're able to support this GoFundMe in any way, it would be so very appreciated. Just some of the art Vic has done for us:
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C.M. Nascosta
1 year
I wrote a book about minotaur handjobs in a Christian coffee shop 💁‍♀️ yolo
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C.M. Nascosta
3 years
Cover Reveal! The Mabon Feast introduces Anzan and Ladybug, a stoic araneaen and a neurodivergent witch. This is the first short story in a series, and can be enjoyed as a short standalone. On sale next week, I'll announce a short presale in the next day or so! #monsterromance
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BRB, changing the title of Cambric Creek 5 from "He Loves Me Not" to "He Loves Me Knot: The Time I Was DP'ed By My Double Dicked Naga Rival"
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@naviareads I wouldn’t mind more discreet titles either lol
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1 year
I recently had a reader email to let me know that although they've been a fan, they cannot support my "abortion propaganda". Like I needed a better reason NOT to write baby epilogues!
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2 years
Seeing my plus-sized character actually rendered has plus-sized has been SO wonderful, and I'm thrilled that so many readers are as happy with this as I am. @Bloodwrit knocked this out of the park. Have you read Parties yet? It's available on KU!
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3 years
Friend just sent this photo from B&N Sarasota, with only one copy left on the table 😳😱
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2 years
Moderator response - "Do you want us to make a note not to post content from your patreon in the future?" Excuse me? Why are you okay with users posting ANY patreon content in your server?! What part of "paywalled" needs to be explained with stick figures & simple hand gestures?
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2 months
It's cover reveal day! HE LOVES ME NOT is a brand new standalone Monster Romance set in the world of Cambric Creek
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4 months
Should I be expecting a check in the mail, or
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1 year
Pre-order A BLUE RIBBON ROMANCE now!
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C.M. Nascosta
2 years
Unpopular (I guess) opinion: it's ableist to expect authors to sign hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of books, tip sheets, book plates, etc, month after month...while writing, constantly, when we are experiencing repetitive motion injuries.
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C.M. Nascosta
9 months
My books are stamped. You are paying for the words on the page, not for me to aggravate my arthritis. That's an explanation, not an apology.
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2 years
However! it is absolutely worth noting that it was a READER who brought this to my attention. There are bookish servers out there with nothing but respect for books and the people who write them, and we love them for that!
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2 years
Cover update! Pre-order now -
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1 year
200 free books, one day only!
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C.M. Nascosta
2 years
The Monster/Alien Romance niche is full of the kindest, coolest, realest (omg is that even a word?) people in all of romancelandia. I've had some of the MOST hilarious interactions in the past 48 hours, only to wake up today to a deluge of Girls Weekend Orctober love.
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2 years
Author friends out there with exclusive Patreon sponsored content: The Thrist Collective is the server. Mods are more concerned with saving face vs banning pirated content. This is not an author friendly group; It's barely book friendly. Put them on your no-fly list.
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9 months
Super excited to announce the Cambric Creek Mystery series I'll be launching in 2024, where the mystery won't be the focus on the book, and the crimes are never solved.
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C.M. Nascosta
1 year
It's weird the way neither I nor any author I chat with regularly has had to go over our books line by line with another author to ensure we weren't copying them *too* directly. Almost like we have original ideas and characters or something.
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M. K. Lobb - updates
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Do you ACTUALLY want unlikeable female characters, or do you just want likeable ones that also happen to be badasses
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"The privilege of self-pubbing." 🤔 Sincerely trying to understand why that's being tossed around. Yes, there are authors who spend thousands on their covers and nearly as much on edits. But a lot of folks start out with a $10 cover and work up from there.
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5 months
Hey readers, don't let anyone shame you for how you read. As long as you're not pirating? You're supporting an author.
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2 years
How To Marry A Marble Marquis - pre-order now:
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2 years
Available in audiobook today, 7/19! #morningglorymilkingfarm
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7 months
"Special Edition" should at least mean special, right? At the *very* least, it should mean something one of a kind? That can't be replicated with widely available stock images, genAI or not? What's so special about an $85 "Special Edition" book made with stock images?
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2 years
I've since found out that this same bookish discord server has passed around and promoted pirated epubs and the sites that provide them. These are the people who profess to love books. It's so disheartening to know that readers like this are out there and in such great number.
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1 year
HOW TO MARRY A MARBLE MARQUIS - now available in paperback! I will have signed copies on Etsy by the end of the month!
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2 years
Listening to the first few minutes of the @FatedMates on monster romance - it's sapience. Not just sentience, but sapience. The ability to give enthusiastic verbal consent is what separates monster romance from anything concerning beastiality.
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2 years
It's almost like some of y'all can't envision the pharmacy meet cute between the sex positive FMC & the bespectacled pharmacist. Slow burn setup as she recovers from her UTI, grown up conversations, and back blowing hygienic sex in the third act instead of a stupid phony breakup
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1 year
Happy Valentine's Day, lovers! Patrons will be getting this art print in the mail, and the Monsters Ball will be here before the end of the month!
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Keep getting notifications from @canva that "magic is coming," But if that magic involves more AI garbage and no mock-ups? No, thank you. We don't need to put a panda on a surfboard, Canva. We need metallic fonts and flat lay mockups.
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9 months
I haven't been online since this released, but I hear we made it into the Amazon top 100! Thank you for putting your arms around Violet and Rourke in my absence 💜
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2 years
It's Milking Farm Monday! When I tell you I have BIG NEWS coming... it's 24 oz of gorgeousness. New cover, bonus story, and a limited edition VIP book box is on the way - stay tuned!
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10 months
Lovers, these books are going to be coming to my Etsy shop for like 30 bucks. Please do not spend $500 on my paperbacks (JFC, please don't spend $500 on anyone's paperback.) Scalpers are garbage - Don't fall for their bullshit
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2 years
It's always so startling seeing MGMF included on lists of "books with spice after 60%." Like, if p-in-v is the only sort of spice you consider valid, well, valid. But foreskins are literally being fingered at the 16% mark so I'm not sure what more you people want from me
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10 months
I hope this cover takes this book to the tippy top of the best sellers list
@PickettPhD
Beth P
10 months
Have y'all seen one of the most talked about covers at Book Bonanza?
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1 year
HOW TO MARRY A MARBLE MARQUIS - in paperback, ebook, and KU
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1 year
Hey @RollingStone , you did that thing that major publications continue to do: treat independent publishing like some sort of fringe niche fandom, and not the huge money machine that it is.
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1 year
I'm hustling to get a manuscript finished in the next week, but in some of my downtime last night I put schedule to paper for 2023. The monsters we have planned are SO swoony, and SO hot. MILFS (Monsters I'd Like To Fuck) coming in hot in the new year:
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2 years
Author @OpalfairchildA had her KDP account terminated today in the same manner recently suffered by @LexiOstrow & Ruby Dixon. @AmazonKDP the lack of human oversight on decisions like this is heinous. How many careers need to be crushed before getting the bots under control?
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3 years
If I see a single one of you fools crying about the snake-headed man (in the book featuring a snake headed man on the cover) you're getting detention. You kids need to go back to your vanilla danimals & white bread sandwiches if you can't roll with real monster fuckers #onmytbr
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1 year
Fellow authors, we've ½ a week left of Jan. If you're going to come up with more hot takes on why 1 star reviews hurt your feelings or why 3 star ratings on AZN should need a mandatory review, you need to get it out of your system before Feb 1st. No more of this bullshit come Q1
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1 year
HOW TO MARRY A MARBLE MARQUIS is almost here!! Pre-order now for the 28th!
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2 years
It's jarring to read a tweet lampooning a book, realizing half a beat later it's my own book 😂 I'm sorry y'all have never aspired higher than having a job milking regular old cows
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2 years
Tell me you've read all my books without telling me you've read all my books 💁‍♀️ I hope they've pre-ordered Sweet Berries!
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Every few weeks, a reader let me know they discovered me through either Ruby Dixon or @sarahmaclean , and today was one such day. Huge thanks to Ruby for being a generous queen & shouting out the Sweet Berries release today, and Sarah for general awesomeness. 👑💖
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7 months
Going forward, if human hands did not illustrate a one of a kind cover, you will not find my books featured in a book box. I hope more of my fellow authors join me on this side of line. I hope more of you readers start expecting more for your dollars. Stock isn't special edition.
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10 months
Fan art is the highest level of praise a creator can receive, WTF? Fan art, mood boards, playlists, fibercrafts, etc - anytime someone makes something because they loved my characters, I treasure it, no matter the skill level of its creator
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champy
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I saw a couple of posts about people hating on "bad" art they received during AF. Personally, all the art I get, no matter the skill level, is going in a special folder on my pc and phone. To me receiving fanart is the highest form of praise towards my ocs ✨
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2 years
Have you seen our cover glow up? The Cambric Creek series is getting a whole new look, starting with Sweet Berries! Guarantee it on your Kindle on 6/1:
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2 years
If I had a dollar for every "monster romance is hot right now, we should spit something out and capitalize on it" thread I've witnessed from authors who were making fun of the niche just six months ago...
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Georgina Kiersten
2 years
And for romance writers do no underestimate romance readers. We are very discerning and very opinionated. If you half ass it they are tell you about it in the reviews. Write only in the genres you are passionate about because bite you in the ass in the end.
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Two For Tea - Welcome to Azathé is the next Cambric Creek cozy, coming this spring! • Goth F Witch / NB Shadow Creature • Why Choose Appendages • Cozy/Creepy Tea Shop Setting • Working Through Depression / Finding Your Place • High Steam/Big Feels
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1 year
Gate Agent: Washington DC, eh? Are you headed to that book convention? Me: 😦😦😦 (I finally answered in the affirmative after sputtering in horror) Gate Agent: Are you going to buy books or sell books? Sell? What are they about? Me: 😦😦😦😦😦😦
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11 months
A Blue Ribbon Romance (Rourke's Midnight Sun) is on pre-sale now!
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C.M. Nascosta
2 years
Reason #938 why it's important to A) support independent authors, and B) support the OFF Amazon. Buy signed books from them, call out people pirating books, sub to patreons when you can!
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C.M. Nascosta
2 years
The third book in my Cambric Creek cozy monster series is about a werewolf breeding clinic (out this summer!) and based on both the question and the answers below, I'm going to need to put our human FMC through a rigorous "knotting for uninitiated" training course
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Jenny Nordbak
2 years
I don’t understand the mechanics of knotting in romance. The more I read, the more confused I get and my text friends are equally confused. Does someone have like a diagram or some NSFW art they can point me to that illustrates what’s happening?? Google is...not helping.
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2 years
My no name indie "written in 3 weeks under extreme duress & published on a shoestring budget" book about minotaur handjobs was on the main aisle "booktok" table at ½ dozen B&N stores around the country. Because of TikTok. Tradpub's disconnect is maddening. Read this 🧵, friends
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Claire Draper || 🍉 from the river to the sea
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There’s something really annoying about publishing saying “we don’t know why tiktok is selling crazy amounts of books! No one could have predicted.”
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2 years
Sweet Berries is here!
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1 year
It's not an exaggeration to say I have a crush on this Cambric Creek special edition
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2 years
As a person whose brain is not wired the same way as most people's, it's really important to me to have main characters in my stories that reflect a full spectrum of neurodiversity.
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HOW TO MARRY A MARBLE MARQUIS is here!
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HOW TO MARRY A MARBLE MARQUIS is almost here!
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2 years
Coming this summer...
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3 years
Trying to explain what a clinch cover is to someone with zero romance novel knowledge...and muddying the waters with fluffy antennae and wings 😂 It's gonna be fine, It's gonna be great
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C.M. Nascosta
1 year
One bridge burned and one follower gained 💁‍♀️
@meganaderr
Megan Derr
1 year
Another bridge burned and I don’t care because this sort of judgy garbage isn’t acceptable
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Neuroatypical witch + her spider centaur tenant - This one is on the Cambric Creek essential reading list, And it's only 99 cents this week!
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1 year
Look at Lowell up there next to Katee's books like he's crashing a stranger's birthday party 😂
@theswoonawards
The Swoon Awards
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EROTIC ROMANCE WINNERS: 🥇Electric Idol by @katee_robert 🥈Wicked Beauty by @katee_robert 🥉Moon Blooded Breeding Clinic by @cmnascosta
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C.M. Nascosta
2 years
The conceit of trying to create an entire fictional genre just because you can't perceive your own internalized misogyny. How much do we want to bet the FMC of her ✨literary romance✨ is also not like the other girls?
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2 years
Friends, I'm seeking an adult toy creator who would be open to collaborating on a custom piece for a potential book box. Who is out there?! #theOfficialRourke
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C.M. Nascosta
2 years
I'M TRYING
@theLindashow
Linda Watson
2 years
Start 👋 making 👋 these 👋 covers 👋 again.
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C.M. Nascosta
4 months
This whole Cait Corrain business is reminding me of another now-disgraced author who loved playing the victim card whenever they were called out for bad behavior. (As they stalked and harassed a queer BIPOC author.) They would also low star review peers under a GR sock puppet /1
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C.M. Nascosta
1 year
Authors know not to expect reviews from every one of those readers. If you're sitting at home waiting for free books from indie authors just for funsies, maybe examine why you think you're entitled to that
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1 year
HOW TO MARRY A MARBLE MARQUIS is almost here!
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1 year
Serious author thoughts this morning: does Deadpool grow back a foreskin when his dick regenerates? Does it ✨circumcise itself✨? Or is he out on the mean streets fully intact? @VancityReynolds we'll take any input you have
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C.M. Nascosta
3 years
A few people have messaged asking what I had to do to get out of the dungeon and in truth all it took was one very politely worded email + following @katee_robert 's example of moving the CW's to my website. Isn't it tragic that Amazon would rather see readers be uninformed?
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1 year
PRE-ORDER A BLUE RIBBON ROMANCE NOW
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1 year
Imagine admitting to the whole wide world that you've been sucking your own dick that hard for two weeks
@BarryPierce
barry pierce
1 year
I think after two weeks of watching all this happen, basically reading and watching every response that my piece has had, I can surmise one major thing about BookTok — they are all huge virgins.
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2 years
Khash & Lurielle, in their final, emotional scene from Parties, by the talented @MischiArt Parties is on sale NOW:
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C.M. Nascosta
2 years
Look, No offense to all of my wonderful readers out there, but I've watched folks get offended over things clearly spelled out on both the cover and blurb. Be a reader. If you want to be an editor, find someone to hire you. Otherwise, leave the books alone.
@AGrandRomance
A Grand Romance (Kate)
2 years
🤦🏻‍♀️ do NOT report things to Amazon on your kindle. It will get the book pulled. Instead, tell the author directly. 👇
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Meet Guile, a gentleman manticore untouched by time in his enchanted manor. Is The Sadder But Wiser Girl a Beauty and the Beast/Music Man mashup absolutely no one asked for? There's only one way to find out! Pre-order Once Upon a Forbidden Desire today!
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C.M. Nascosta
3 years
Unrelated yet completely related: trying to explain (to non-fantasy readers) that not every single fantasy species is a stand-in for *actual marginalized people* is exhausting. It ain't always that deep, Madison. Sometimes a troll is just a troll.
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C.M. Nascosta
3 years
If I see a single one of you fools crying about the snake-headed man (in the book featuring a snake headed man on the cover) you're getting detention. You kids need to go back to your vanilla danimals & white bread sandwiches if you can't roll with real monster fuckers #onmytbr
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C.M. Nascosta
2 years
Merrick the Mothman is flying into Cambric Creek this spring - preorder now!
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