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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Jul 9

Plus, you can get it in the Anti-Prime Sale on @bookshop.org ;)

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Dreams and Driftwood: Stories Set Along the Great Lakes

Stories Set Along the Great Lakes

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Jul 9

#NewRelease: the Great Lakes Fiction Writers anthology for 2025 came out yesterday! It features my story called "The Duke Against the Ropes," and I'm really excited for people to read it.

Buy links: books2read.com/dreamsanddri...

#ClevelandWriters #RomanceWriters #Romancelandia

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Jun 30

My story is called "The Duke Against the Ropes." Since one of the requirements for stories was having a connection to the Great Lakes, you might ask yourself: how did she get a duke in there?

I guess you'll just have to grab the anthology to find out 😉🥰

Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Jun 30

Very excited to announce that I'll have a short story out in the 2025 Great Lakes Fiction Writers anthology. The anthology title is DREAMS AND DRIFTWOOD: STORIES SET ALONG THE GREAT LAKES, and it is coming out very, very soon!

books2read.com/dreamsanddri...

Promotional graphic for Dreams and Driftwood: Stories Set Along the Great Lakes. The text reads "Coming Soon" and "Featuring my story 'The Duke Against the Ropes.'" The book cover and a line drawing of a wrestling ring are provided for illustration.

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Apr 18

Hot damn, if I hadn't already turned in my story for this year's Great Lakes Fiction Writers anthology, I might be trying a Law & Order "ripped from the headlines" angle 😂😂😂

AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · Apr 18

i need the television movie, and i need it NOW

Quicksand swallows man at Michigan beach near harbor dredging

Romance blossoms after Leland beach date takes a dramatic turn.

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Mar 16

I was absolutely delighted by this newsletter - to learn there is a name for something I do all the time in my writing, to understand better why it works, is so helpful.

kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Mar 15

i know i neglect this platform a lot but for those of you who may have been missing my musings on romance prose here’s a little something 🖤https://kateclayborn.substack.com/p/i-finished-my-book

I finished my book!

so of course I want to talk about syntax

kateclayborn.substack.com

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Jan 24

A new #newsletter from me! A belated sending of some thoughts about my favorite #romance releases in 2014.

Subscribe: sylvie-fielder-writes.beehiiv.com/subscribe

sylvie-fielder-writes.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-20...

Best of 2024, belated.

My favorite romance reads of 2024.

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Jan 24

In the past week, I've transferred my newsletter over to beehiiv from Substack, changed all the links everywhere, and made some progress on a short story for this year's anthology. #amwriting

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · Jan 23

You know how movies will have a montage of a couple going to the farmer's market, walking on the beach, etc.? A lot of romance novel writing is figuring out what the heck they're talking about through all of that. 🥰

#amwriting #romancelandia #writesky #romancebooks

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Jan 12

Trying to write while watching football - I finally had an IDEA for a story that I need to write soon, and now I'm sitting down to work it out. #amwriting

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Dec 31

And I can't send out this year without celebrating that I had a story in an anthology produced by my local writers group!

Love on the Lakefront, including my story called "Caught Looking," is available now: books2read.com/loveonthelak...

Quote post. Text reads: “... there would be no crushes. No distractions. Just baseball.

Even as she told herself that and tried to refocus on the players on the field, she spent the rest of the game fervently hoping, for more than one reason, that she’d never have to see this attractive stranger ever again.”

From “Caught Looking,” a short story by Sylvie Fielder

Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Dec 31

Looking forward to reading my way and *ahem* writing, hopefully, my way through 2025!

But in a "begin as you mean to go on" kind of way, I'm in the middle of a Lorraine Heath book I probably won't finish by midnight.

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Dec 31

While some experimented with structure and voice, others executed the hell out of clever or daring premises.

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Dec 31

As I was going through my lists of books, I decided to focus on this year's releases, but not just the 5-star reads. These 6 books have all stuck with me in some way, and all have amazing character development.

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Dec 31

End of year means #FavoriteReadsOf2024!

Here are some of my favorite 2024 romance releases:

-At First Spite, Olivia Dade
-Home Ice Advantage, Ari Baran
-Right Where We Left Us, Jen Devon
-Marriage & Masti, Nisha Sharma
-The Pairing, Casey McQuiston
-How to End a Love Story, Yulin Kuang

Image includes six book covers under the title "Favorite 2024 Releases." Covers are:
-At First Spite, Olivia Dade
-Home Ice Advantage, Ari Baran
-Right Where We Left Us, Jen Devon
-Marriage & Masti, Nisha Sharma
-The Pairing, Casey McQuiston
-How to End a Love Story, Yulin Kuang

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Dec 19

Oh man, I use Pacemaker, but I didn't know it could do THIS.

Tess Sharpe @sharpegirl.bsky.social · Dec 17

Pacemaker is where I nail down the REAL schedule. Where I decide: is this book a weekend book or a weekday book?

I can shift between projects in a day, but I prefer having designated days for each project, it makes me brain happy. And Pacemaker is Queen of Doing That and More.

A shot of Tess's writing schedule in pacemaker. Each colored box is a different project.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Dec 8

I write erotic books! People constantly call them soft porn. Or sometimes not-so-soft porn. LOL

They are plenty deep, and their purpose is many-layered! But even if that wasn't true, we do not through sexual content under the bus!

The people trying to ban books think all romance is porn!

Sorien @sorien.bsky.social · Dec 8

Romance NEEDS to have a good plot. I suspect that people who think romance lacks such conflate romance with soft porn novels, which aren't generally known for being particularly deep, given that their purpose is tintillation, not experiencialism.

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Dec 8

btw just a gentle announcement in general, especially for folks dipping their toes into romance.

I know this *feels* like a compliment to a lot of people, but it's pretty much a "pistols at dawn" level insult

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Dec 2

God, this is such a pretty cover.

Liana De la Rosa @lianainbloom.bsky.social · Dec 2

Behold the gorgeous cover for the last book in the Luna Sisters series, GABRIELA AND HIS GRACE! I die! 😍 Cover artist Camila Gray & designer Katie Anderson hit it out of the park!

GABRIELA AND HIS GRACE will be available August 26th!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704157...

Bright red and pink bougainvillea covered gated archway offset by lanterns. At the center is a dark haired couple, staring at each other. The woman is dressed in a red gown, and the silhouette of a Mexican city lies in her skirts. Text reads: Gabriela and His Grace, A Luna Sisters Novel.

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Dec 1

Did a little math, and I added 19,966 words to the second draft of my big WIP in November! Not quite NaNo level, and maybe a little less far than I wanted to be at this time, but I'll take it! #AmWriting #WriterSky

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Dec 1

-makes notes for myself-

Colleen Delaney @cdelaneywrites.bsky.social · Nov 30

Hello.

If you are a historical romance reader, who are your favs outside of the big names?

I am working on a Christmas present for myself (the best kind).

I need some historical dopamine in the lineup this January.

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Nov 28

Amazing. Now checked out in KU!

Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Nov 28

#Romancelandia, are there good Thanksgiving romances?

I do, indeed, know and love HER NAUGHTY HOLIDAY by Tiffany Reisz. What else you got?

a white cat is laying on its back with the words `` give me , give me , give me ! ''

ALT: a white cat is laying on its back with the words `` give me , give me , give me ! ''

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Nov 23

Not to reopen a discourse, but I'm watching Twisters again. When people talked about the no-kiss-situation, I think we didn't talk enough about how she really seemed to love that guy she was with at the beginning, and how terrifying that whole opening sequence was.

Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Nov 22

A good reminder!

Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · Nov 21

Been seeing a bunch of "aspiring writer" recently. You want to be a writer? *POOF* you're a writer. That's it. Write some stuff. You are a writer. Now, if you want to be a published writer, well there are so many ways for that, too. Figure out your ACTUAL goal. Then go for it. But you're a writer.

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Nov 22

All these winter transaction updates for baseball teams, players moving, coaches hired, and I wish my brain would stop seeing a story premise in every single goddamn one of them because I already have too many things to finish

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