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herhandsmyhands

@herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club

Reads (mostly genre romance). Crafts. Rabble rouses. Rants. She/her. Doesn't look like Rita Hayworth. Sweary. Blocks with abandon.

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herhandsmyhands, to romancelandia
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I reviewed Elizabeth Everett's The Love Remedy

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/03/25/the-love-remedy-by-elizabeth-everett/

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ICYMI: I reviewed The Love Remedy, the first in a new series by Elizabeth Everett

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/03/25/the-love-remedy-by-elizabeth-everett/

herhandsmyhands, to USpolitics
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A blog post by a long-time Romancelandia member, Lori Green, inspired a rant (heed thee the content warnings)

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/03/24/wealth-greed-bodily-autonomy-control/

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ICYMI: A blog post by a long-time Romancelandia member, Lori Green, inspired a rant (heed thee the content warnings)

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/03/24/wealth-greed-bodily-autonomy-control/

herhandsmyhands, to romancelandia
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@romancelandia Via @lauravivanco over at Teach Me Tonight:

The good Doctor has a paper out, woot woot!

https://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2024/03/new-publications-minotaurs-and.html

herhandsmyhands, to random
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There are measles and polio making a resurgence, tuberculosis cannot be far behind, never mind COVID, and this motherfucking white woman just left 1500 children unprotected from them.

And instead of jail, she gets to pay half her fine, and keep practicing?

Meanwhile, Black men, women, and children, are presumed guilty and jailed, if not murdered, for existing in their own country.

What in the actual motherfucking hell

https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/01/17/long-island-midwife-fake-vaccination-records/

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“Readers looking for a quick, comforting mystery will enjoy curling up with [The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles]" 💜💙💜 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/94364-8-new-cozy-science-fiction-and-fantasy-novels.html

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@older

One of the many things I love about this story is the whole "if it's not hard, it cannot be right" thing; just how Puritans decried bodily comforts and --heresy!--heresy time. Humans will human.

(in other words: you didn't "set aside the interrogation of the genre", you looked at it from a different angle, IMO)

Direct link to the full PW review here:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250906793

herhandsmyhands, to romancelandia
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For this month's , I read Michelle Willingham's Unlaced by the Outlaw. It didn't go well.

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/03/20/unlaced-by-the-outlaw-by-michelle-willingham/

herhandsmyhands, to indieauthors
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Heads up, horror and Gothic fans!

Romancing The Gothic is organizing a fundraising event for the UK charity Magic Breakfast! For as little as 5 pounds you can ensure a child eats a healthy breakfast for a month. Come for the cause, stay for the writing workshops!

@romancelandia @bookstodon

When: March 24; schedule, and all other details available at:

https://romancingthegothic.com/2024/03/19/goths-for-breakfast/

herhandsmyhands, to maine
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Call to action, via Erin Reed:

Mainers, contact your representatives in support of trans sanctuary bill ; show them that you support them, as they face threats of violence in their work to protect marginalized people in .

Maine legislators are getting bomb threats, they're getting a flood of angry messages from across the United States due to conservative influencers. Know that you can help swing things by making your voices heard. ---- Emails: Donna Bailey, Senator, District 13 Donna.Bailey@Legislature.Maine.gov Cameron Reny, Senator, District 13 Cameron.Reny@Legislature.Maine.gov Anne C. Perry, Representative, District 9 (Bill Sponsor) Anne.Perry@Legislature.Maine.gov Poppy Arford, Representative, District 101 Poppy.Arford@Legislature.Maine.gov Sally Cluchey, Representative, District 52 Sally.Cluchey@Legislature.Maine.gov Anne-Marie Mastraccio, Representative, District 142 Anne- Marie.Mastraccio@legislature.maine.gov Kristi Michele Mathieson, Representative, District 151 Kristi.Mathieson@Legislature.Maine.gov Jane Pringle, Representative, District 107 jane.pringle@legislature.maine.gov

herhandsmyhands, to romancelandia
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I read and reviewed Alyxandra Harvey's The Husband Heist, third in her Dainty Devils series; not as enjoyable at the second entry, by far.

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/03/18/the-husband-heist-by-alyxandra-harvey/

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Mar 17: Have you taken high school or college courses in Creative Writing? Were the classes useful?

I tried my university Creative Writing class, offered by a prof who'd had a book picked up from Random House, I believe. He read my sample stuff—queer and spec-fic, to be clear—and wrote "Trite" and "Common" and didn't accept me into the class. Was soul-crushing. Didn't write for ages.

Anyway, he still has that one book. My sixth small-but-trad-pub novel releases next month.

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@NathanBurgoine Fuck the gatekeepers.

(Those who can, do; those who can't but have a generous soul, teach; those who can't and are consumed by their own mediocrity, aim to kill the spark of joy in those they are supposed to teach)

herhandsmyhands, to romancelandia
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It was a rough night here at casa aztec, but Nightmare is feeling much improved right now (although she absolutely hates the cone, and who could blame her?)

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/03/16/a-little-nightmare/

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TFW you have two cats: one eats anything and everything, the other turns her nose up at 99% of food--and it's the second you need to give medication to, "with food".

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/03/16/a-little-nightmare/

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@romancelandia You can tell your non-demonstrative cat loves you when she suffers you stuffing little pills in her mouth and forcing her to swallow; when she lets you put food in her mouth, and ditto; when she lets you dribble water in her mouth, and same--especially because she has not let you give her any painkiller (which comes in liquid form).

Nightmare is a tough little bird.

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Update: post-surgery Nightmare

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/post-surgery-nightmare/

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@romancelandia For those keeping track at home, Nightmare has gained .8 pound from her emergency vet weigh-in of 6 pounds 3 ounces; for such a small cat, this is major.

Her spine and hip bones are no longer protruding, her coat is shiny, she's been more vocal and demanding (of cuddles and outright holding) than ever.

I'm so happy.

Icing the incision to help with swelling:

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Lovely friends and readers, especially those of you who offered to help with vet bills for Nightmare: can we help someone else? She's got two cats at the vet, one of them for over a week now, and the bills are racing up like crazy.

https://ko-fi.com/A012IFW

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Via genre romance historian Steve Ammidown, a fantastic zoom panel is happening this Sunday, March 17.

Find all the details at the Romance Fiction Has a History blog:

https://romancehistory.com/2024/03/13/a-sunday-with-3-amazing-authors-and-me/

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Today, at 4pm Eastern, via Zoom!

Genre romance historian Steve Ammidown is moderating a panel inspired by a character in the novel The Book of Love, by author Kelly Link, with authors Beverly Jenkins and Sandra Kitt.

All details here:
https://romancehistory.com/2024/03/13/a-sunday-with-3-amazing-authors-and-me/

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ICYMI, the "Book of Love" zoom panel was really interesting; the planned hour because two.

I understand that participants will get a link to the recorded video in the next few days, and I'll ask whether it's okay to share here, for your viewing pleasure.

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And we have a link! Sunday's panel discussing The Book of Love, with authors Sandra Kitt, Beverly Jenkins and Kelly Link, moderated by genre romance historian Steve Ammidown, can be watched on the Romance Bookstore YT channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFJiFMi2L-w

Also, please note that while these events are free, they take a lot of work to organize; if you cant to help, you can do so here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-bookstore-romance-day-going

Learn more about Romance Bookstore Day here:
https://bookstoreromanceday.org/

herhandsmyhands, to indieauthors
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@romancelandia @bookstodon #IndieAuthors

Do yourselves a good turn and make sure to follow Author Beware by @victoriastrauss

The most recent post is about #CityOwlPress, but there's wisdom that applies to all small presses:
"there is a kind of alchemical process where long-standing strains and stresses within a publisher...abruptly reach critical mass and boil to the surface in the form of a rush of complaints."

https://writerbeware.blog/2024/03/08/author-complaints-at-city-owl-press/

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Here's yet another essential resource for from @victoriastrauss: a list of the legitimate publishing people and organizations who are most frequently impersonated by scammers, as well as a short primer on how to recognize a scam/phishing attempt that's apparently coming from a legitimate source.

https://writerbeware.blog/2024/03/15/the-impersonation-list/

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I just came across this TikTok " for their for dinner" remark", and I love how clear the goal and mechanism to achieve it are: if enough people do this one fairly little thing for a full quarter, the powerful will notice, and can be forced to change their behavior.

That's how boycotts work, after all.

https://www.tiktok.com/@tallgirl6234/video/7340723750792367403

There's a playlist, where she answers a lot of "but..." and "what if..." comments. Go listen.

More at: https://www.letthemeatcereal.org/

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Please boost: there are only two weeks until the starts; you still have time to plan your buying strategy so as not to give any of your hard earned money to the corporation that literally said, " for dinner"

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/let-them-eat-cereal/

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Have you heard? Next Monday, we are telling executives' to eat cereal for their dinner.

There's still time to get ready and participate in the

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/let-them-eat-cereal/

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ICYMI: Next Monday, we are telling executives' to eat cereal for their dinner.

There's still time to get ready and participate in the

More information at:

https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/let-them-eat-cereal/

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