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Janet Raye Stevens/Evie Kelley
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Mom, tea drinker (ok, tea guzzler), writes smart, stealthily romantic books of the mystery, history, & time travel kind. Also scribbling YA & sci-fi as Evie Kelley.
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Janet Raye Stevens/Evie Kelley @authorjrstevens.bsky.social · Feb 17
Join feisty librarian Beryl Blue on a #timetravel journey to the past, future, and everywhere in between, desperate to stop an assassin--and save the man she loves

"A perfect blend of historical fiction, a bit of sci-fi, and wonderful romance."

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🎄Get into the Christmas spirit with a sparkling murder mystery 🎄

It's five days to Christmas, thirteen guests are trapped in Elderwick Hall... and one of them is a killer 💀

❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ "Beautifully written, a joy to read, impossible to put down"

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November 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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We have a fabulous giveaway running this month! The prize is a $100 Amazon gift card and is open internationally. So head on over and check it out!
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#giveawayalert #nnlbh #November
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November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Hey, #TimeTravelAuthors! And everyone else! It's finally coming! Seven Year Boots, my serial time travel story, is premiering this Wednesday, 11/26, on Substack. Would love it if you all subscribed, to see it unfold!

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Tempora More | Steve Alloway | Substack
Stranded in time? Ended up in the wrong year by mistake? Narrowly escaped an impending apocalypse? Tempora More is here to help. Your one-stop shop for all things time travel! Click to read Tempora Mo...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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The 70s: when the “Body Suit,” a garment suspiciously similar to a toddler's “onesie,” snaps & all, was the hottest (and most uncomfortable) thing in women’s style - and the setting for my new book, MY BICENTENNIAL, a #comingofage novel of the far-out year 1976

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A magazine ad from 1976 featuring female models wearing a selection Body Suits, a garment similar to a toddler’s “onesie” that snaps at the crotch. Some of the onesies have short sleeves like tee-shirts, others have long sleeves, cuffs, and button down collars, and they're in a variety of colors and patterns, including brown and white horizontal stripes, solid orange and green, and large brown, orange, and peach colored flowers. A square image with a light purple and yellow background featuring a book cover with the title "My Bicentennial: A Mostly True Tale of the Far-Out '70s" above the image of the lower legs and feet of a teenage girl standing on a yellow bathroom scale dotted with purplish daisies. The girl is wearing purple polyester pants and orange platform shoes with spongy white soles. The author's name, Evie Kelley, is inside a silver triangle where the weight numbers would typically be. To the left of the cover is a narrow image of the book's spine with the title and author's name.
October 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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5 stars for You’re My Match by Peggy Jaeger

The realism Peggy Jaeger brings to this story is beautiful and will break your heart before uplifting it.

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#romance #workplaceromance #enemiestolovers #mustread #newrelease #bookreview #booksky
5 stars for You’re My Match by Peggy Jaeger #romance #workplaceromance #enemiestolovers #mustread #newrelease #bookreview
The realism Peggy Jaeger brings to this story is beautiful and will break your heart before uplifting it.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 251 (11/23/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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A bit of sass from our Ella.

#caturday
November 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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If you have time for a cuppa in the midst of your Tday prep on Wednesday, 11/26, I'll be part of the Free Library of Philadelphia's Seniors program and chatting about being a romance author. . . and life in general. We begin at 11am and the libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/eve...
Book cover - title - A Lady's Agreement. A woman in a gown looks back over her shoulder. A ship and a dock are in the background Picture of author Terri Brisbin
November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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ABBY LOVED DAVID ALL HER LIFE.
Then disaster struck.

#TimeTravelWesternRomance
#Western #Romance #cowboys #sapphires #sheepwars #E #paperback
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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'Judith Arnopp masterfully captures both the relentless ambition and sharp intelligence that guided her (Margaret Beaufort) through adversity.' Review ##HIstFicThreads

READ FREE WITH KU

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November 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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It's here! Available in digital and paperback format, with audio coming soon.
Dystopian sci-fi with a thread of clean romance...
Early readers: "Perfect for fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE."
Me: "THE POWER meets 1984."
I can't wait to hear what you think!
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November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Sean Ian O’Meidhir and Connal Braginsky have a new MM paranormal romance out, Lemniscate

Weaving the threads of eternity with Lemniscate, Nathen, a neurodiverse vampire, grapples with the intersection of special interests versus ...

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#GayRomance #Paranormal
New Release: Lemniscate – Sean Ian O’Meidhir and Connal Braginsky
Sean Ian O’Meidhir and Connal Braginsky have a new MM paranormal romance out, Darklight book four: Lemniscate. Weaving the threads of eternity with Lemniscate, Nathen, a neurodiverse vampire, grapples...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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FASCINATING, UPROARIOUS, AND LEGENDARY BOOKS. STORIES FOR EVERYONE! Visit my website www.marthaperez.info AND AUTHOR PAGE. #Romance #bookworm #darkshortstories #ebook #motivational #hardcover #paperback #bookaddict #heartfelt #thrillersuspense "CHECK OUT MY CAPTIVATING BOOKS"
June 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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One more day.....🤩
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One more day until SILENT Y is live! Happy almost pub day! If dystopian sci-fi with a creepy government a sweet love story that overcomes odds is your thing, pick up SILENT Y! It has THE HANDMAID'S TALE vibes!

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November 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"When the Sky Breaks is a vibrant biopunk science fiction novel that brings us on an incredible odyssey."

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Book cover: When the Sky Breaks (sailboat under a large moon)
November 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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SECONDARY is now available almost everywhere books and e-books are sold!

THE MARTIAN meets THE POWER; I can comfortably promise you've 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 read a story quite like it.

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#ScienceFiction #TimeTravel #SciFi
A man wearing a lab coat and a lanyard stands centered in the image. The background is split irregularly down the middle by a lightning bolt; the man straddles the divide. On the right, a nuclear plant by the ocean, with a barbed-wire-topped wall. Sun and scattered clouds all the way to the horizon. On the left, clouds and rain. Strange buildings by the ocean, brightly colored. A man and a woman stand in front of them, wearing odd clothing, also brightly colored. The tagline reads, "One survivor of our timeline. And it's the wrong guy." The blurb for SECONDARY, black on an off-yellow background: Everybody has bad days. Jim McAllister's having one that spans two timelines. For an anthropologist, joining the Time Eye project is a career-making dream. He's hardly above pulling strings–especially for a chance to pull photons from the Bronze Age and directly view ancient cultures. Then rogue scientists hijack the Eye, sending an engineered virus back thousands of years. Jim, the last person interfaced with the system, can only watch as reality warps around him. Now he's the sole remnant of the old history: a conspicuous, bizarrely-dressed young man who speaks no recognizable language. Thanks to the virus, anyone with two X chromosomes is a living, and potentially lethal, taser. Men have never been a significant threat to women–quite the opposite. To have any chance of getting home–to even survive, in a world where men's concerns have been secondary for all of recorded history–Jim will need to find allies. He'll have to apply his skills to a uniquely unfamiliar culture, where much more than the gender signifiers are radically different. He must figure out who might listen to his story. A story that's clearly impossible and deeply offensive. Plus, just as a bonus, heretical.
April 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Get immersed in a mystery!

Available at donnajevans.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Apple Books.
January 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Three weeks. . . but available for pre-order now. If you love reading #mystery, it will be an excellent post-Thanksgiving story.

#AmWriting #AmReading #EdgyCozyMystery

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OMG, OMG, OMG, My Book Listing is Live on Amazon!
It’s really happening! On Saturday morning I woke up to find that Drowning in Deception was live on Amazon for pre-order.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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For murky fall days and cold nights: The Fire Apprentice is a cozy #romantasy with campfires, blacksmith forges, fiery dragons, and only one hayloft 🧡 janebuehler.com/books/#FireA... #cozyfantasy
the book The Fire Apprentice, showing a woman in front of a fiery hearth who is leaning on an anvil and looking at a man across from her, on a window sill next to a pottery vase of mums and toad lilies
October 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Conversation with Sobek the Crocodile God MAGIC OF THE NILE Snippet #Romantasy in ancient Egypt #booksky #romancelandia veronicascottauthor.com/2025/11/16/c...
Conversation with Sobek the Crocodile God MAGIC OF THE NILE Snippet
VS: I have an entire series on interconnected ronantasy novels set in ancient Egypt, in which the gods walk the land beside the Nile and are involved in daily life the way the Egyptians believed th…
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November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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My feature story on Chanel Cleeton’s new novel, The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes, just appeared in the Historical Novels Review. Whether you begin with an interest in Cuba or not, consider reading Cleeton’s terrific book.

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Interweaving Timelines: Chanel Cleeton's The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes - Historical Novel Society
WRITTEN BY MARLIE PARKER WASSERMAN In The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes (Berkley, 2025), Chanel Cleeton excels at trios. She transports her readers to the points of view of three women, to three settings,...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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FREE if you're an #amazonprime subscriber... just sayin'
What if another world existed, almost identical to your own?
What if the man you loved lived there?
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Green book on red background. The House of Lost Whispers shows two early 20th century figures standing outside a large country house. There are poppies in the border and a clock showing the time the Titanic hit the iceberg
October 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Showing off this excellent piece I commissioned from @sarkastiklover.bsky.social! Tysm you rock! ❤️

Noah & his mom Cassie from #Tenement, my dystopian mystery about people living in an infinite building.

"Things don't have to be like this. There could be other ways. There could be other worlds."
Digital illustration by @sarkastiklover.bsky.social of Noah Walker, a young man with medium-dark skin, very short brown hair, and a loose-fitting beige shirt standing in a long narrow corridor with yellow/brown wallpaper with a rose pattern near the base, wooden floors, & a naked lightbulb hanging from a slightly cracked ceiling. He is standing back-to-back with his mom Cassie, a woman with large curly brown hair, who is looking back over her shoulder fearfully toward him. Diagonal cross-sections separate the two, with Noah in the present & colored, while Cassie is in the past & black and white. In Noah's left hand he holds the Nwissy (a compass).
August 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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My short story “Ghost Train” is published in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social today. This is a creepy one, enjoy!
Ghost Train
Waiting for the 6 train at Union Square, normally a hurricane of activity, dead at four in the morning. Cory worked the night shift at The Inn in Gramercy Park, which usually allowed him to work on hi...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Have you felt the pain of betrayal? Would you like your revenge… even on paper? Well, these women balanced the scales, and it was personal.

Book 1
amazon.com/dp/B0DPNG3T6L

Book 2
amazon.com/dp/B0F4X9Y6WP
First Wives Reprisal: Book 1
First Wives Reprisal: Book 1 - Kindle edition by Chase, Shenae. Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
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June 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM