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📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙

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Author of F/F and M/F Contemporary Romcoms and Fantasy Romance. Crocheter . Teacher . Mom . Cat Lady . D&D nerd . AuDHD . Bi . 🧚Mandi Richards for Fantasy Romance 🤓Amanda Richards for Contemporary Romance

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📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Nov 24

Spicy Romance Author and Avid Reader here. Contemporary RomComs and Fantasy Romance here. M/f and F/F pairings, disability rep in some, queer rep in most. Working on finishing my Romantasy trilogy and putting out book 2 in my RomCom series this year.

Stacks of my books : Falcons Kiss, Eagles Embrace, Alex and Dani Hack Dating, and It's More or less Christmas with a crochet elf girl and a crochet pokeball. Plus face out versions of the covers of the books.

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📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Mar 3

Book is Ashley and Jake Game Dating which comes out in May

Cover of Ashley and Jake Game Dating: mid-size red headed white woman in a teal dress with black tights and red heels and a white man with brown hair, a grey hoodie and blue jeans on a purple background with houses in the background.

📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Mar 3

#WIPSnips Ring

We grab jackets and shoes and get in my old Hyundai—Terri calls driver—and head into town.
I turn on the radio to some classic rock, but my phone rings, so I turn it down. Looking at the screen, I see it's my brother, Ben. A pang of guilt in my gut reminds me I haven't spoken to him all week. I hope everything is okay. I really need to be more on top of things with him. Avoiding him because I feel like I'm never doing enough, doesn’t help either of us. But, I just don’t know what else to do sometimes. I know that's super shitty. Ever since my mom passed away, leaving me in charge of my brother's care, nothing about his situation sits right with me. He shouldn't even be in a group home. Family cares for family. But thinking about it, I feel guilty and spiral into a vortex worrying if we're doing the right thing, or what we should be doing. And then I don't talk to him for days. Sometimes weeks. I really am a shitty brother.
"You gonna answer?" Terry asks.
Shit.
"Hello, Benny Boy." I answer.
"What are you doing?" he asks, without even greeting me back.
"Heading into Greenswald with Terry. I've got a therapy appointment, and then we're going to grab some dinner somewhere Terry can watch baseball."
"Let's go Mets." Ben cheers. He doesn't really care about baseball, but he knows the Mets are Terry's team and he loves relating to people, so he has a Mets banner on his wall, and a shirt that he wears if he knows he will see Terry.
"Why? What’s up? Do you need anything? We could swing into Ashburg and get you something."

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📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Mar 3

I haven't seen this on blue sky yet, but it's all over my threads feed:

I write "clean" romance: the MCs get clean... Together... In a shower

Cover of Alex and Dani Hack Dating. A put together looking white man and a hot mess looking white woman with glasses.

📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Mar 3

Makes sense!

📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Mar 3

That makes sense. I will keep plugging away. ❤️

📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Mar 2

This is for my book that comes out in May.

Read book 1 now about a nerdy single mom and a dorky single dad. books2read.com/u/mZpyZl
(Kobo+, kindle, and more)

Book 2 is about the MMC's younger sister.

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Alex and Dani Hack Dating by Amanda Richards

books2read.com

📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Mar 2

I swear to God, I did not send my cover designer a picture of my husband as inspo when she was searching for stock images for Jake 🤣

Cover of Ashley and Jake Game Dating: an illustrated a faceless mid size white woman with wavy red hair in a teal dress and a faceless white man with short brown hair, wearing a grey hoodie and blue jeans. Next to it is a picture of my husband with the same hair and complexion, standing in the same pose, and wearing almost the same clothes.

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📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Mar 2

Looking to read books not just on Amazon? All of mine are in Kobo+ as well as available pretty much all ebook places

Cover of Alex and Dani Hack Dating with trope arrows: single parents in their 30s, Nerds in Love, phone smex, ADHD rep, hot mess x anal retentive

Cover of it's more of less Christmas (one curly haired white woman in red and green and a long straight brown haired white woman dressed all in black in front of a Christmas background) with trope arrows: grumpy sunshine, holiday novella, workplace romance, single mom, forced to work together

Cover of Falcons Kiss (a dark haired white woman in a pink dress in front of a sailing ship) with trope arrows: marriage of convenience, smex on a beach, met at a ball, fae war, HEA, Hot Guys with Wings

Cover of Eagle's Embrace (blond white woman in a blue ball gown in front of a fancy garden) with trope arrows: caught in a compromising position, frisky in a carriage, only one bed, fae war, hea, hot guys with wings.

📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Mar 2

Been neglecting blue sky again. Hmm... Someone make me love blue sky as much as I love Instagram and threads. How do I build a better community here?

📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Mar 2

That's the plan!

📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Feb 20

Almost once per day in a few sapphic books groups I'm in, I see requests for 4th wing but make it F/F. And usually there's 2-3 book recs and that's it. Seriously tempted to drop all my WIPs and write a f/f dragon rider fantasy romance.... Would you read that?

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Lyla Blake @lylablakeauthor.bsky.social · Feb 16

#freethebooks2025 #stuffyourbookhole

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Evelyne Crowe @evelynecrowe.bsky.social · Feb 17

I've made my book free in protest of book banning and censorship. I am not alone. Follow the hashtag here and on other social media. #freethebooks2025

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Karen Heslop @kheslopwrites.bsky.social · Feb 17

Fight book b@nning with this fr33 book! Today we’re protesting the c3nsorship of romance and sp1cy books so let me entertain you with one of my d1rty books. Check it out here: mybook.to/tiedjob
#freethebooks2025 #booksky

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Sixella MK | Content Creator and Book Reviewer @sixellamk.bsky.social · Feb 17

📚❤️Looking to check out free books while also helping Indie Romance authors? Check out the #freethebooks2025 compilation list of the authors you can check out and support today!❤️📚

www.instagram.com/p/DGLVhTgJ-r...

#freethebooks
#sixellamkbizzagenda
#supportallindiebusinesses
#supportallindieauthors

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Allie Sanders @alliesanders.bsky.social · Feb 16

Also happening tomorrow is #freethebooks2025 where a bunch of spicy romance authors on KU are setting their book for free because fuck censorship. You’ll probably find the most options by searching the hashtag on instagram.

FIGHT BOOK BANNING - FREE E-BOOKS!
anti censorship protest
Today only, check out the hashtag #FREETHEBOOKS2025 and grab tons of spicy, totally tree books trom authors lending their voices and stories to the fight against fascist, spicy book banning.
The new political regime has made it clear that a war against the freedom to choose what we read is upon us. In protest of legislation making romantic and spicy books illegal, we ve decided to #FREETHEBOOKS, because the right to tree speech shouldn't just apply to bigoted ideals. Choosing whether or not to partake of spicy books should be OUR choice, not the government's.
So «STUFFYOURBOOKHOLE and grab some free spicy books, and give the Fascist censorship plans
TWO BIG MIDDLE FINGERS WAY UP.

Free Sabrina cross Books: Corny, Snuggle, Tangled, Knotted, Pounded by the Pommel Horse, Christmas with the Monster #freethebooks2025

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Cas ✨ SnapCracklePoppies @snapcracklepoppies.bsky.social · Feb 17

I haven’t seen much over here on the blue skies but if you search the hashtag on IG (and check your email newsletters) there are authors putting up quite a few free ebooks as a “fuck censorship” gesture today!

#FreeTheBooks2025
#FreeTheBooks
#monsterromance #romancebooks

Allie Sanders @alliesanders.bsky.social · Feb 16

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📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Feb 17

Free ebook alert. Fight back against censorship by downloading free spicy books! My books aren't free on Amazon because they never got back to me about price matching, but you can get them free on Apple, Kobo, And more! (My final slides shows all the places my books are available outside Amazon)

Today only, check out the hashtag #FREETHEBOOKS2025 and grab tons of spicy, totally free books from authors lending their voices and stories to the fight against fascist, spicy book banning.

The new political regime has made it clear that a war against the freedom to choose what we read is upon us. In protest of legislation making romantic and spicy books illegal, we've decided to #FREETHEBOOKS, because the right to free speech shouldn't just apply to bigoted ideals. Choosing whether or not to partake of spicy books should be OUR choice, not the government's.

So #STUFFYOURBOOKHOLE and grab some free spicy books, and give the Fascist censorship plans TWO BIG MIDDLE FINGERS WAY UP.

Mandi Richards books available for free at Barnes and Noble, Rakutan Kobo, Apple Books, Everand, Tolino, cloud library, baker and Taylor, odilo, vivlio, borrow box, Smashwords, palace marketplace, gardeners. Book covers for: Alex and Dani Hack Dating, It's More or Less Christmas, Falcon's Kiss, Eagle's Embrace

📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Feb 16

I'm participating in #FreeTheBooks2025 am anti-censorship protest for #SpicyBooks. All 4 of my books will be free tomorrow, February 17. I am working to get them free on Kindle, but I know for sure they will be free on B&N, Kobo, Smashwords, and more.

Fight Book Banning --Free e-books
Anti Censorship Protest
Today only, check out the hashtag #FREETHEBOOKS2025 and grab tons of spicy, totally free books from authors lending their voices and stories to the fight against fascist, spicy book banning.

The new political regime has made it clear that a war against the freedom to choose what we read is upon us. In protest of legislation making romantic and spicy books illegal, we've decided to #FREETHEBOOKS, because the right to free speech shouldn't just apply to bigoted ideals. Choosing whether or not to partake of spicy books should be OUR choice, not the government's.

So #STUFFYOURBOOKHOLE and grab some free spicy books, and give the Fascist censorship plans TWO BIG MIDDLE FINGERS WAY UP.

Free Amanda/Mandi Richards Books
Alex and Dani Hack Dating, It's More or Less Christmas, Falcon's Kiss, Eagle's Embrace

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📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Feb 15

I've been stuck in the editing phase of my book for 2 years now... I changed enough in the beginning that it means changing every single chapter after. I think it's harder to edit because I'm trying to fit what I already wrote to what I changed... I may just need to start over from scratch. FML

📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Feb 15

An conversation with my hubby this morning :
Me: *making eggs*
Him: Fancy.
M: I wanted an expensive breakfast
H: with the cost of eggs millennials will have to switch back to avocado toast to afford a house.
M:we may need to convince the boomers to give up eggs so they can afford retirement.

📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Feb 15

I want to love blue sky because it's not owned by meta, but I'm having trouble getting into it. Make me love it.

📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Feb 9

Link to purchase: books2read.com/u/47R11N

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Eagle's Embrace by Mandi Richards

books2read.com

📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Feb 9

With the Eagles in the Superbowl, I've decided to make the Eagles Embrace ebook free all weekend!

Zon is taking their time price matching, and since I'm not in ku I can't run a freebie promo on Kindle. So it's only free everywhere else:

📚B&N
📚Kobo
📚Apple
📚Smashwords
📚Fable
And more!

📚🖋️Amanda Richards (she/her) 🩷💜💙 @mandrichardswrites.bsky.social · Feb 9

All this to say, my book Eagles Embrace is free right now pretty much everywhere but kindle. B&N, Kobo, Smashwords, and more books2read.com/u/47R11N