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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · 2d

YOU, WITH A VIEW x MRS. NASH’S ASHES

1 shy musical prodigy determined to protect her heart 🎹

1 meddling dead grandma🪦

36 questions scientifically designed to make strangers fall in love⁉️

1 flirtatious funeral cellist🎼

1 pining best friend❣️

1 trip of a lifetime 🌎

#DVpit #CR #A #ND #LGBT

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · 2d

Young neurodivergent misfits uncover a plot to unleash an agricultural apocalypse & raid the Doomsday Vault. They join forces with ecohacktivists & nature spirits to thwart the oligarchs, take down a fascist regime & save humanity from famine. (Wishful thinking)

#DVpit #NA #SFF #ND #R #MR #Latine

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks!

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · 2d

Hi Nikki! Thanks for the likes ❤️
Could you send me a query link via DM?

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds like my kind of book. I’ll be looking for it when it’s published!

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · 2d

AITA? My friend (has fibromyalgia) asked me if orgasms really reduce pain, so I did a systematic review and made a slideshow including links to ergonomic sex toys, but I may be biased because I want to help her, & then she told me she was joking & now things are awkward. Help

#DVPit #CR #A #ND #CI

Meme moodboard that captures the vibe of romance novel OPEN BOOK.
4 memes in a grid:
1- Two stick figures smiling at each other. One of them has a hand on the other’s shoulder. Text says: You’re weird, I like you.
2- 2 smiling stick figures on a turquoise background with little hearts. Text above one: “says anything”, text above the other: “makes it dirty”
3- blushing stick figure with shy expression, holds a heart against a pink background. Text says: i'm not good at holding conversations
can i hold your hand instead?
4- line doodle of two people in an embrace. One looks distressed and text above them says: touch-starved and didn't Know
it. The other is cradling the first one’s face and text says: most cuddly person on earth

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you so much! 🥰💖

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · 3d

TIT FOR TAT
A former pin-up model falls in love with the aloof tattoo artist she hired to ink her mastectomy scars

#DVPit #CR #A #ND #CI

Mood board for contemporary romance novel TIT FOR TAT with 9 images in 3x3 grid. From left to right, top to bottom image descriptions:
1-a dark-haired white man tenderly kisses a blonde white woman
2- torso image of a white man in a grey t-shirt crossing his tattooed muscled arms
3- closeup of a tattoo artist’s hands at work, wearing black nitrile gloves, holding tattoo pen
4-an A-frame wooden cabin in the woods
5- mirrored image of white swans facing each other forming a heart
6-colorful buildings of Nyhavn, Copenhagen on a sunny day
7- half a bra: just the one cup in pink silk and lace
8- closeup of a couple in bed, grasping hands in an embrace
9- cinnamon roll with icing

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · 3d

GET A LIFE CHLOE BROWN x WELL TRAVELED

A bubbly Tarot card reader facing deportation from Denmark agrees to fake date a burned-out scientist skeptical of the future she foretold

🤦‍♀️ Fake dating
💖 Friends to lovers
⛺️ Viking re-enactment (There’s only one tent!)
😇 Toys

#DVPit #CI #DIS #ND #CR

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · 3d

This sounds amazing!

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · 3d

Recipe for disaster:

🎶1 reclusive musical prodigy NOT looking for romance

🪦1 meddling dead grandma

⁉️36 questions scientifically designed to make strangers fall in love

🎻1 flirtatious funeral cellist

❣️1 pining best friend

#DVpit #CR #A #ND #LGBT

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been so excited about this book and it’s out now! 💖💖💖🤩

Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 4d

My new book, Dealing With A Desperate Demon, is out today! Cheery curvy bookseller, grumpy curvy demon, dating lessons, a beauty and the beast style curse, lots of horniness. Perfect to curl up to for spooky season! You can grab it these places!

read.macmillan.com/lp/dealing-w...

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · 4d

Happy book birthday! I’ve had this one marked on my calendar 💖

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 18d

Things today's White House autism announcement did not do:

-Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families
-Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear
-Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 27d

I know this is besides the point but the #1 research supported way to "get rid" of homeless people is to give them homes. It's called Housing First and it works everywhere it's tried, just like UBI.

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · Sep 4

Brought wrong kid to ADHD clinic 😬

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · Sep 1

Union organizers— my kind of romance heroes and heroines

Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · Sep 1

Union organizers— my kind of romance hero

The Smut Report @smutreport.com · Sep 1

I put together this last of romances featuring union organizers last year (ie, at a more optimistic time)—but maybe these are the kinds of romances we need now more than ever. #romancelandia

smutreport.com/2024/08/31/s...

Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yes!!! 🤩🤩🤩

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · Sep 1

Union organizers— my kind of romance hero

The Smut Report @smutreport.com · Sep 1

I put together this last of romances featuring union organizers last year (ie, at a more optimistic time)—but maybe these are the kinds of romances we need now more than ever. #romancelandia

smutreport.com/2024/08/31/s...

Saturday Smutty Six: Union Strong

Happy Labor Day weekend! In honor of the holiday, we’ve pulled together a list of six romances featuring labor organizers. Books are listed in chronological order by setting. Highland Jewel b…

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · Aug 28

🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

Sabina Nordqvist @nordqvistbooks.bsky.social · Aug 22

Some tropes and content you can expect from IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD, out Feb 10 with Grand Central!

Trope graphic featuring the cover of IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD, with side bars that list out:
Fake dating
Only one bed
Slow burn with spice
Hot snowboarders
Secret celebrity
Anti-ableism
Chronic pain and illness rep
Hurt/comfort
Chaotic girl besties

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is probably my fastest preorder ever. I’m so excited for Sabina’s debut!

Sabina Nordqvist @nordqvistbooks.bsky.social · Aug 20

I am so excited to share the cover for IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD, which hits shelves February 10 and is now available for preorder!

Cover reveal: Purple book cover with the title It’s All in Your Head in bold white letters outlined in red. Around the title are small cartoon figures: a woman in a blue top, leggings, and reclined on a pillow holding a phone, and a man in a white dress shirt and blue pants standing up leaning on the D while holding a cane and a holding a phone. Author’s name, Sabina Nordqvist, appears at the bottom. Coming February 10, 2026.

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Lucia Rey Author @luciareywriteshea.bsky.social · Aug 21

Love this!!!!💜💜💜

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 16

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · Aug 6

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

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Turtleberry 🐢🍓 @sweetturtleberry.com · Jul 12

You know what...

These times aren't unprecedented.

There is precedent.

Y'all just don't like that the precedent is slavery, Jim Crow, and the Holocaust so y'all act like this shit ain't never happened before.

Go on and ignore history is you want to...

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