Steve A
@stegan.bsky.social
Part time school librarian, archivist-for-hire, romance novel historian, freelance writer about romance history. He/Him. Blog: romancehistory.com Podcast: blackromancehistory.com
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Steve A
@stegan.bsky.social
· Jun 21
Me: maybe I’ll do one of the romance reading bingos this year!
Also me: Here are ten parameters I can set myself to make it far too complicated to even start!
Also me: Here are ten parameters I can set myself to make it far too complicated to even start!
Okay, here’s my plan. I’ve not read a lot of La Nora, so I’m going to try and score as many squares as possible on the @smartbitches.bsky.social bingo card with Nora Roberts books. As many old categories as possible, too. This feels really doable.
The Ohio legislatures who have slashed every other tax, pushing the burden down to the community level, now want to help the communities with the tax burden they created?
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The Ohio legislatures who have slashed every other tax, pushing the burden down to the community level, now want to help the communities with the tax burden they created?
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The most relevant of my books this time of year? The Anti-Social Season! A chaos muppet former firefighter with burnout and anxiety! An order muppet librarian tasked with training her in her new job (social media)! The holidays! ROMANCE.
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The most relevant of my books this time of year? The Anti-Social Season! A chaos muppet former firefighter with burnout and anxiety! An order muppet librarian tasked with training her in her new job (social media)! The holidays! ROMANCE.
Your occasional reminder that Molly of Denali is the best kids show on tv. youtu.be/DigGOlWCZnM?...
Molly of Denali FULL EPISODE | Truth, Trust, and Harvest/Thanks-For-Giving | PBS KIDS
YouTube video by PBS KIDS
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Your occasional reminder that Molly of Denali is the best kids show on tv. youtu.be/DigGOlWCZnM?...
Okay but can we talk about anxiety being under three different numbers? Haven’t we anxious suffered enough???
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Okay but can we talk about anxiety being under three different numbers? Haven’t we anxious suffered enough???
And so say all of us.
my take on Food Discourse is that it's always ridiculous but it's also nice to be fighting about dumb internet shit again instead of dealing with Oppressive Despair all the time so please keep posting your bad takes
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
And so say all of us.
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Reposting since there are a bunch of new people around - All books mentioned are out and Acting Up (my first published book and #1 in the Center Stage series for recovering theater kids) is currently free on all platforms if you want a sampler.
Alternatively, try my novella The Wedding Bait!
Alternatively, try my novella The Wedding Bait!
Okay, it's time for a proper intro thread, not just the one I whacked up there during the workday.
I'm Adele, I'm a law librarian by day and romance author by night. I talk occasionally about a bunch of stuff but a lot about books.
I'm about to talk about my books!
I'm Adele, I'm a law librarian by day and romance author by night. I talk occasionally about a bunch of stuff but a lot about books.
I'm about to talk about my books!
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Reposting since there are a bunch of new people around - All books mentioned are out and Acting Up (my first published book and #1 in the Center Stage series for recovering theater kids) is currently free on all platforms if you want a sampler.
Alternatively, try my novella The Wedding Bait!
Alternatively, try my novella The Wedding Bait!
If you do not like the pie I will give all your pie a good home where they will be appreciated please and thank you.
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If you do not like the pie I will give all your pie a good home where they will be appreciated please and thank you.
In honor of the first thanksgiving without Susan Stamberg, I’ll share a different weird cranberry recipe I found years ago in a 1940 PET Milk cookbook. I give you Cranberry Slaw.
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
In honor of the first thanksgiving without Susan Stamberg, I’ll share a different weird cranberry recipe I found years ago in a 1940 PET Milk cookbook. I give you Cranberry Slaw.
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So many things are grim and cold right now. But if you'd like to admire something soft and happy and warm for a moment, please see my heartachingly gorgeous cover for SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE (out 11/25)?
AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/SCRamz
(Cover artist info & other links below!)
AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/SCRamz
(Cover artist info & other links below!)
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
So many things are grim and cold right now. But if you'd like to admire something soft and happy and warm for a moment, please see my heartachingly gorgeous cover for SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE (out 11/25)?
AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/SCRamz
(Cover artist info & other links below!)
AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/SCRamz
(Cover artist info & other links below!)
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This is the content today needs. lmao
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is the content today needs. lmao
Me six weeks ago: “Boy, I can’t wait to get back to work!”
Me today: “Yay, it’s Tuesday-Friday! I shall survive the day and then sleep for four more!”
Me today: “Yay, it’s Tuesday-Friday! I shall survive the day and then sleep for four more!”
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Me six weeks ago: “Boy, I can’t wait to get back to work!”
Me today: “Yay, it’s Tuesday-Friday! I shall survive the day and then sleep for four more!”
Me today: “Yay, it’s Tuesday-Friday! I shall survive the day and then sleep for four more!”
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Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
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People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
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This part. Teachers are so undervalued and underpaid and loudly told both "you're essential" and also "you suck and if you say a word out of line, you might get fired and/or be targeted for harassment by the most powerful people in the country"
And of course we get the brain-dead political analysis. The biggest crisis of public education (and the greatest threat to kids with mental illness) is the Republican Party's funding cuts. But guess who gets blamed in the conclusion of the article?
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This part. Teachers are so undervalued and underpaid and loudly told both "you're essential" and also "you suck and if you say a word out of line, you might get fired and/or be targeted for harassment by the most powerful people in the country"
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go to a library.
The only reason I even looked is because I was blocking a bunch of the Anna's Archive braggers and noticed a link to my book b/c boohoo someone didn't want to buy it.
lol if you wanted it so bad, go sign up for a free trial of Kobo Plus & read it free w/ your account. Boom. Solved.
lol if you wanted it so bad, go sign up for a free trial of Kobo Plus & read it free w/ your account. Boom. Solved.
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
go to a library.
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Happy 2025 Books We Love Day. So excited to share this with you. If you love books or you're looking for something great to read NPR has the handpicked, heartfelt recs for you! Proud to be a contributor again this year. Dig in.
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
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 12:26 PM
Happy 2025 Books We Love Day. So excited to share this with you. If you love books or you're looking for something great to read NPR has the handpicked, heartfelt recs for you! Proud to be a contributor again this year. Dig in.
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
I have so many questions. I’ve tried to do the cover justice in the alt text, but there’s just SO much going on here. Paging @smartbitches.bsky.social !
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I have so many questions. I’ve tried to do the cover justice in the alt text, but there’s just SO much going on here. Paging @smartbitches.bsky.social !
You can’t keep trying to individualize systemic problems. The problem isn’t views, it’s a system set up to benefit the few at the expense of the many. I LOVE public transit, but it doesn’t exist here in any meaningful way. And it would cost way more to move somewhere that did.
i wonder how much of Americans' views on driving vs. transit would change if they had to pay for gas/insurance/etc every time they turned on the engine
"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
November 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
You can’t keep trying to individualize systemic problems. The problem isn’t views, it’s a system set up to benefit the few at the expense of the many. I LOVE public transit, but it doesn’t exist here in any meaningful way. And it would cost way more to move somewhere that did.
Taking child to 9am Wicked showing- Dad of Year campaign still going strong.
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Taking child to 9am Wicked showing- Dad of Year campaign still going strong.
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Happy 13th anniversary to perhaps the funniest NFL play of all time: The Buttfumble
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Happy 13th anniversary to perhaps the funniest NFL play of all time: The Buttfumble
It’s over, y’all. We have a winner.
It's been SEVEN hours and
fifteen days
fifteen days
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
It’s over, y’all. We have a winner.
In spite of ourselves
We'll end up a sittin' on a rainbow
Against all odds
Honey, we're the big door prize
We're gonna spite our noses
Right off of our faces
There won't be nothin' but big old hearts
Dancin' in our eyes.
There won't be nothin' but big old hearts
Dancin' in our eyes.
We'll end up a sittin' on a rainbow
Against all odds
Honey, we're the big door prize
We're gonna spite our noses
Right off of our faces
There won't be nothin' but big old hearts
Dancin' in our eyes.
There won't be nothin' but big old hearts
Dancin' in our eyes.
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
In spite of ourselves
We'll end up a sittin' on a rainbow
Against all odds
Honey, we're the big door prize
We're gonna spite our noses
Right off of our faces
There won't be nothin' but big old hearts
Dancin' in our eyes.
There won't be nothin' but big old hearts
Dancin' in our eyes.
We'll end up a sittin' on a rainbow
Against all odds
Honey, we're the big door prize
We're gonna spite our noses
Right off of our faces
There won't be nothin' but big old hearts
Dancin' in our eyes.
There won't be nothin' but big old hearts
Dancin' in our eyes.
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🎇 This event is happening later today, if you'd like to join us! 🎇
Join me and @oliviawrites.bsky.social and our excellent moderator @authoremmabarry.bsky.social for a virtual book celebration, 11/22 at 1pm Central. The event is free, but you'll need to register with Love's Sweet Arrow:
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November 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🎇 This event is happening later today, if you'd like to join us! 🎇
Yeah, but Spurs only ever target their own fans.
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Yeah, but Spurs only ever target their own fans.
I’ve had a lot of good advice from teachers, but my archival processing professor told me “It can be perfect, or it can be done. It cannot be both.” And that has really stuck with me!
What’s the most significant advice you received from a teacher?
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I’ve had a lot of good advice from teachers, but my archival processing professor told me “It can be perfect, or it can be done. It cannot be both.” And that has really stuck with me!