This week's Friday snippet is from Wooing the Witch Queen, in which Saskia is learning the downside of being invited to ally with the Queens of Villainy...
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I should really publish a German folk tale collection that only includes love stories.
#Romance authors get the big bucks, or so I hear.
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Hold up, y'all #romance fans, this would be the best meet extremely eccentric cute ever
This week's Thursday snippet is from Wooing the Witch Queen, in which Queen Saskia is preparing to greet her new dark wizard librarian in the proper style.
Snap up your own copy: https://stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen
OK, I am still very officially on vacation from writing for at least 1 week...
...But I have admittedly been re-reading my own novella A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience for, um, REASONS. ;)
There are moments, many moments throughout life, that simply cannot be rushed through. Each step, each look, each clasp of hands, is something to be fully experienced and savored.
They knew this.
Twilight Romance art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/twilight-romance-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
This MMC in the book I'm reading is so creepy. I love it. He smiles just to hold power over people. Reminds me of my MMC for my WIP. I really do think this needs to be a trope. We need less unexpressive, cold MMCs and more smiling, trickster MMCs in #darkromance
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This week's Tuesday snippet is from Wooing the Witch Queen, in which the sweet hero-in-disguise is reminding himself of an important truth about the sinister heroine...
Grab your copy: https://stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen
April Showers - Cozy Mystery & Clean Romance
If you like mystery, romance, or both, you'll find dozens of fun free books here! They include my Furrever Friends Sweet Romance, Lions and Love at the Cat Café, plus “The Case of the Missing Monkey and other short mystery stories.”
https://books.bookfunnel.com/cozycleanapril2025/cjfe4143l5
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Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 3 mod back online after D&D; owners "mistakenly" send a copyright strike - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/stardew-valley-baldurs-gate-3-mod-back-online-after-dd-owners-mistakenly-send-a-copyright-strike #Strategy:Turn-BasedStrategy #MultiplayerCooperative #MultiplayerCompetitive #Birdview/Isometric #ActionAdventure #LarianStudios #Baldur'sGate3 #XboxSeriesX/S #SinglePlayer #Fullproduct #StoryRich #Strategy #Fantasy #Romance #PS5 #RPG #PC
Rock Paper Shotgun · Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 3 mod back online after D&D owners "mistakenly" send a copyright strike
I send thanks to the buyer from Illinois who purchased a canvas print of
Forever Yours -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/forever-yours-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
May the artwork take you to a place of wonder and magic, where you are close to the person you love most -- the one you cherish and trust, and who cherishes and trusts you.
This post has some interesting romances featuring activist characters. For example, one character turns a billionaire into a student debt eliminator. https://smutreport.com/2025/02/08/saturday-smutty-six-inspiring-activists/ #Romance #RomanceLandia @romancelandia
The Smut Report · Saturday Smutty Six: Inspiring ActivistsIt’s been two weeks of just utter bombardment with news and losing our minds and you know what? We’re feeling big mad. Scared. Intimidated. WHAT CAN WE EVEN DO? We’re feeling like we need to …
My novel GODHUNTER will be available in audio starting on April 8th, narrated by Marnye Young. I’m so excited to share this trailer with everyone!
If you’re interested, the universal book link in my profile lists some of the marketplaces where you can order it, but I couldn’t get them all up. When in doubt, please try a search! I hope it will be available in libraries too.
#NewRelease #bookstodon #AudioBooks #romance #fantasy #WritingCommunity #reading #books @bookstodon
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Like... eat your heart out, Little Mermaid.
THIS is the literary fairy tale that needs to be THE mermaid love story from now on.
Make it so.
This week's Monday snippet is from Wooing the Witch Queen, in which Queen Saskia's new (supposedly) dark wizard librarian has made a most unusual demand...
When the world has nothing more to offer you, so you cling to each other all the more closely. Edward Burne-Jones's rendition of a vibe that hits a bit too close to memory for comfort: "Love Among the Ruins".
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Many authors incorporate their own experiences and autobiographical elements into their stories. How is it with you? Which of your works contains the most of your personal experiences?
I hate to admit it, and I know a lot of people would disagree, but I don't consider myself a particularly interesting person. It may be one of the reasons I'm so bad at parties. Small talk. Scary. They'll think I'm an airhead. My shyness doesn't help that.
That said, I will admit some of the internal dialogue in my 1st person characters greatly resembles the character of my own. (Oh noes, now people will really give me dirty looks.) I do cook; that's definitely in my stories. I am rewriting a main character in an epic fantasy to be a fine art and event photographer because I can relate. I've done it; I can give details. I've even gotten paid. An evil character in a published book was my experience of my evil† stepfather. It provided a certain verisimilitude.
I'm not going to write about being a programmer, though, or sitting at a desk writing stories, or exercising each morning. Too, blah.
To say whether or not any story is even close to being autobiographical, or having more than the most peripheral personal experiences, is impossible.
I am Walter Middy.
Well, not really, but you get the idea.
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† He was evil.
[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]
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Quite meta of me, but just for fun, I finished a instalove romance with a HEA between John Mastodon and the Fediverse Chick, but in my story she's called Jane Mastodon. Could anyone beta read? Spice is on page, and explicit, but the synopsis is below.
John Mastodon has just been fired from his job at Twitter. Tired of living in the city, he spots an online ad for a small town called ActivityPub and decides to take a chance on this new town and its inhabitance. Jane Mastodon has a simple job. She's a firefighter. She used to work for a corporate phone company but gave that up to be one of the many pillars of this community that calls themselves the Fediverse. Jane is lonely, and her newly dubbed nickname, the Fediverse chick, plays into so many misconceptions that guys get the wrong idea and pursue her without really seeing her. One day, she plows into John Mastodon at the store, wherein they have an instant connection. Even though their connection is fresh and vibrant, it isn't smooth sailing for both of them. Can they learn to love again after both have been knocked down by life? this story is 20,000 words with a happy ending, a cat named Goldfish, a diverse cast of side characters, brief on page smut, and no miscommunication but there is drama. I’d like beta readers. Is anyone interested?
This Sunday's snippet is from Wooing the Witch Queen, in which Queen Saskia is preparing to meet her latest guest in the manner expected of a truly sinister wicked queen.
Snap up your copy here: https://stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen
