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eri (e.m. caro)
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📖 author, hybrid. you can pry the queer, historical, and romance genres from my cold, dead hands | 🏳️‍🌈 | rep: Cheyenne @ Handspun Literary

Coming March 17, 2026: REARS & VICES

https://emcaro.carrd.co/
https://books2read.com/RearsAndVices
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eri (e.m. caro) @authoremcaro.com · Sep 17
COVER REVEAL 🔥✨🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈 I’m so excited to finally show folks this BEAUTIFUL cover!!

Stunning art by Jan (@thistlearts.bsky.social), who not only obliged me in portraying all three (!!!) of my queer, poly, radical pirates—he also absolutely nailed their dynamic!

Coming March 17, 2026!
emcaro.carrd.co
two books, one standing atop the other. Title is Rears & Vices by E.M. Caro. The cover has three men: an auburn-haired man, a black-haired man, and a blond man, all dressed in early 19th century clothing. The auburn-haired man is embracing the black-haired man and the blond is standing protectively by.
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oliviawrites.bsky.social
SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE is warm, cozy, & out today. I hope you love it! 💗

The story: A cranky baker's erroneous obituary brings the woman who got away back into his life--& now he needs to convince her to stay.
The heat level: steamy!
The baked goods: plentiful!

www.harpercollins.com/products/sec...
The illustrated cover of SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE by Olivia Dade (subtitle: "A Harlot's Bay Novel") is a warm peachy pink, with golden light coming from an overhead light fixture. The picture is set in a bakery, with racks of golden-brown pastries and loaves of broad. In the foreground, a pretty fat woman with long brown hair is sitting on a table, with a handsome fat man with ruddy hair and a beard standing between her legs. She has a hand tugging on his apron, and he has a hand on her thigh. They are nearly kissing and gazing at one another with desire and adoration.
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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laurenbajek.bsky.social
Incredible to see THE DOOR ON THE SEA in on this list!
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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billie.bookstoreromanceday.org
You're not really screwing over the publishers. They make up for your pirating by jacking up prices, paying authors less, cancelling that series you love because it didn't sell enough, etc. You're hurting authors & your fellow readers because you feel entitled & I, for one, fucking hate you for it.
hillarymonahan.bsky.social Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1d
I see it's the seasonal argument about why piracy to fuck over Amazon and publishers is okay while many authors live below the poverty line.
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
Here's the cover illustration I did of 'The Bloodweaver' by @cnkuster.bsky.social , for Podium Publishing!

Out June 2026!
Cover illustration by Eleonor Piteira of the book 'The Bloodweaver' by C. N. Kuster, featuring a young man with eyes closed, holding a spiralling ball of blue magic in his hand. Through the light of the magic we can see the bones of his hand. He's wearing a uniform with a knife on his belt, and there is a landscape of vineyards on the background.
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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arcanegold.bsky.social
hey y’all! this is a shot in the dark but i’m currently looking for work, let me know if you need an artist for anything! i’d love to work in games and books, so if there are any studios or publishers out there send me an email!!!
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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nooskadraws.bsky.social
ye olde trans rights. now and forever. 🏳️‍⚧️✨

#TDOR #TransDayofRemembrance
A digital illustration of a medieval banner. It says in medieval inspired script "ye olde trans rights". It is decorated with plants and blue, pink, and white flowers.
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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malf.bsky.social
This book absolutely fucking rips. I would not actually call it cozy--it's in conversation with NYC's early gay memoirs, Edmund White esp., a slice of life family story about folk music set in Greenwich Village. Unbelievably beautiful.
alisonfincher.bsky.social Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 4d
I do NOT go in for cozy, but Cat Sebastian’s latest is an actually palatable comfort read about redemption and hope in what looks like an impossibly difficult historical moment. Definitely written for fall 2025.

Two thumbs way up.
After Hours at Dooryard Books
Check out After Hours at Dooryard Books - <p>1968 New York City</p><p></p><p>News about the war might be keeping Patrick up at night--news in general might be keeping Patrick up at night--but he's doi...
bookshop.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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pretensesoup.bsky.social
With Lazarus, Home from the War being named to the Fated Mates best of 2025 list this week, it seems like the perfect time to announce the preorder for my new novella!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0G36CHZ4S

Comes out 12/21 (Sam's birthday) but it's more about the solstice than Christmas.
Brown square with stripes on it, vaguely 1970s vibe. The cover of The Alignments has several standing stones along a beach with some clouds. It says The Alignments, by E. H. Lupton. On the left it says “Sam and Ulysses on their honeymoon in France” with an arrow pointing to the cover. On the right it says, “A dead body turns up” with another arrow pointing to the cover. Below it says “Available 12/21, Preorders now open!” Another brown and stripe slide. At the top it says Frequently Unasked Questions Q: Will there be a paperback? A: Yes, but not right away. I'm going to do a volume with all the shorter stuff in 2026. Q: How long is it? A: Not quite 30,000 words. Q: Is it spicy? A: About like the other books? There is some light bondage. Q: Will it be available everywhere? A: Yes! Not every site does preorders, so that's only available through the 'Zon, but you'll be able to get it most places after 12/21.
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
authoremcaro.com
✨how many scam marketers can i block on instagram in a week ✨
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike.

Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.

Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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booksofm.com
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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lsangha.bsky.social
and here we see that once it gets late enough in the day, the historian naturally reverts to the spelling conventions of the time they study
lsangha.bsky.social Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 6d
Strangely to us, John's wiffe was called Richard - one of many early modern names now gendered differently.
Lines from a 16th-century will, one reads 'Item, I geve and bequeathe unto Richarde my wiffe'
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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thesuiway.bsky.social
write for the person who's going to re-read this manuscript at least 15 times before it sees a bookshelf—me.

if that person gives up, book does not exist.
samtasticbooks.com Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com · 7d
Been pondering the "write for yourself / no, write for an audience" convos I've seen going around. This obviously varies for everyone, but for me it's "write for myself, edit for an audience." I can't finish a project unless I retreat into a bubble and pretend nobody will ever read it--
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
authoremcaro.com
if I am allowed a smol brag: not mine! *Very* weird weather goings-on in my 1816 novel. (Mostly: freezing fogs and extreme temp swings)
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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oliviawaite.com
After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian is out today so nobody has any excuse for reading anything else.

This romance is like six coping mechanisms in a trench coat and not all of them are healthy, but everyone’s trying their best. I am desperate to hear other people react to it.
After Hours at Dooryard Books
The manager of secondhand bookstore takes in a mysterious drifter. And then his best friend and her newborn move in. Everyone spends a lot of time thinking about Walt Whitman and badly processing t…
catsebastian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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kjcharleswriter.com
Publishing strategy:

Observe lots of people like romance in fantasy
Label everything romantasy
Observe lots of people like fantasy without romance
Label everything anti-romantasy
Observe lots of people like romance in fantasy
Label everything anti-anti-romantasy...
davidgreenwriter.bsky.social David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 9d
This week, I was sent a proof from one of the big publishers. In their pack, they described it as an "anti romantasy".

An anti romantasy.

I have so many thoughts about this, I honestly don't know where to begin.
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social
🏳️‍⚧️ November 13th - 19th is #TransAwarenessWeek! While trans people (and trans stories) deserve far more than just your awareness, here’s a list of books by and/or about trans people and trans experiences that have been published (so far) in 2025! 🧵
Graphic with background displaying an illustration of blue, white, and pink clouds against a deep blue night sky. At the center of the graphic is a white square with a pink border that has title text within it that says, “Twenty-Two Trans Books Released in 2025 to Celebrate Trans Awareness Week”. Above the title text is an illustration of a heart decorated to resemble the trans flag, and beneath the title text is an illustration of a blue book with its pages splayed open.
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
authoremcaro.com
lol tell me you've never met a reader before without telling me
lindaholmes.bsky.social Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 11d
I’ll say this much: This reads exactly like what it is: people who discovered romance five years ago and decided they had all kinds of amazing new ideas to “fix” it. Connections between books? That feel kind of cozy to the reader? How did no one ever think of that?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
Publishers don't usually offer such ways to extend the story, leaving readers with what Mazur called "a book hangover," only partially cured via online discussion groups and fan fiction. 831 Stories wants to build in that kind of obsessiveness from the start. "We really want romance readers to want to collect all the books, to want to have an understanding of the entire set of characters, to understand the Easter egg in Book No. 8 that references Book No. 2," Cerulo said.
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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eckslibris.bsky.social
Favorite new reaction image
Oscar Isaac in Frankenstein. Caption says "oh sure blame the guy whose fault it is"
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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eliaseells.bsky.social
Hey, if you have an MM (especially SF, fantasy, and horror) book out in 2026, let me know!
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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robinsloth.bsky.social
This peacock wants to remind you that we never cross a picket line

Don't buy from Starbucks during the strike!
A peacock stands on dusty and rocky ground with its long tail feathers down and held behind it. Its body is sideways but its head has turned to look directly at the camera.
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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romansdegare.bsky.social
I am so ready to read some romance novels that take Big Risks. Give me stakes. Real imperfections. Trust me to not need your characters to be exemplary, highly-therapized individuals. I’d like a theme or two, but I am not a baby bird, and I can chew on it myself
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
authoremcaro.com
GASP I NEED IT
roselerner.bsky.social Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 14d
Highlights from the Bundled Up on Broad auction opening tmow 11/13!! (Buys warm clothes for the families at my synagogue Rodeph Shalom Philly's food pantry, or give directly to our wishlist: bit.ly/bundled25)

I HAVE to start with Olivia Waite's beaded octopus www.32auctions.com/organization...
beaded octopus with tiny beaded suckers in an octopus teacup
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
authoremcaro.com
drinking this new Roasted Dandelion tea and it tastes like nothing so much as clean barn. like hayloft. and very old wood.

it is weirdly nostalgic? not delicious, mind you. but nostalgic.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
authoremcaro.com
US folks, I need the sequel to this, and it's out in paperback now, so pleeeease buy it!
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM