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Good morning! Or, depending on when you read this, good afternoon, good evening or good night! I hope that your weekend treated you well and that you will be able to get some relaxing in. The me that is currently writing this newsletter is putting it out there in the universe that Monday-morning me managed to get at least one or two books read so I can mark off more on my Bingo board.
And yes, I am doubling or even tripling up on some of these prompts. This is a challenge where I can and I am taking advantage of it.
February is already off to an interesting start, what with the drama that I got into last time with the now unpublished book. I got drawn into the dumpster fire that hot mess was, so I missed that February 4th was Derek Craven day in Romancelandia. I’ll admit that I did not get the reference when I kept seeing this on Twitter all day last Thursday. (Please don’t come for me.) But, clearly he’s important because a lot of people I follow and respect are tweeting about him, so I dug into it a bit.
After doing my research, I discovered that he is the hero of Lisa Kleypas’s Dreaming of You, and that this holiday was created by the Fated Mates podcast. I honestly can’t recall if I’ve ever read Kleypas before so I didn’t feel too bad. However, it lit Twitter up and for once it was for a happy reason. If you search the hashtag over on Twitter, even today, you’ll likely still find a bunch of the tweets including a laundry list of things that Derek Craven wouldn’t do. All of this is to say that, apparently, this needs to be the first book of hers that I read. *adds to list*
That this united Romancelandia, even if briefly, is kind of awesome. Twitter is usually shown in a very negative light and, while a good portion of that is very much warranted, honestly? All of the social media platforms are toxic in their own specific way. So, it’s nice to have a positive unification on the app, and that it involves a romance hero gave me all the warm fuzzies.
Speaking of warm fuzzies, Goodreads came up with a Romance Pen Name Generator which was just delightful. When Charish Reid shared what hers would be, I had to check out my own. If you’re interested, mine would be Lark Montague which….I kinda dig. True, it reminds me of those sweeping familial tragic epics that were predominant in the early ’90s, but it does have a nice ring to it.
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In romance adjacent news, it was announced that the beautifully diverse 1997 version of Cinderella will start streaming on Disney+ starting February 12th, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Everyone rightfully lost their collective minds at this happy news. I know a lot of people will be sitting in their own little corner and in their own little chairs watching this movie on repeat once it goes live.
I really hope their servers are ready. The traffic that day will rival, if not surpass, the one for Hamilton.
New Releases
Here are some of the new releases coming this week!
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Reckless Road by Christine Feehan
Smoke Bitten by Patriciai Briggs
Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins
Tempting in Texas by Delores Fossen
Dancing with Danger by Kerrigan Byrne
Only One Touch by Natasha Madison
I was fortunate enough to be able to read an e-ARC of Wild Rain and y’all…I fell in love with Garrett. He was such a sweet cinnamon roll hero. And I adored Spring as well, for the bad-ass female she was. We definitely need more of that in Western romances.
Deals
Here are some of the deals that I noticed when perusing the interwebs. As per usual, these were the prices at when this newsletter was written so it may have changed:
The Love Bet by (Love Unexpected Book 1) by G.L. Thomas is $0.99
Long Time Coming by Rochelle Alers is $1.99
Tender Kisses by Sheryl Lister is also $1.99
Written in the Stars, which was one of my most favorite reads from last year 3.99 for a limited time!
And that is all she wrote for now Catch up with me under @Pscribe801 over at Twitter. ’ve actually been tweeting more! Until next time.