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Bryn Donovan

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Author, blogger at BrynDonovan.com, freelance book editor at LuckyAuthor.com, and hopeful romantic in Chicago. Pre-order my spicy romcom HER TIME TRAVELING DUKE: https://amzn.to/43Ie5bj

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · Sep 2

AHHHHH READ MY BOOK REVIEW
MY FIRST TRADE REVIEW, IN BOOKLIST
FOR MY NEXT BOOK
🕰️ HER TIME TRAVELING DUKE ⭐
I really tried to create memorable characters. I am over the moon. 😭🌙
@berkleyromance.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social
#romance #booksky #romancelandia #penguinrandhomhouse

Her Time Traveling Duke
Berkley

Henry Horatio Lyons, the fifth duke of Beresford, can’t figure out what is going on. One minute it
is 1818, and he is posing for his portrait at his estate in Oxfordshire, and the next minute, he's
standing in some inappropriately dressed, twenty-first-century woman’s lodging in the former
British colony of America. When the woman, Rose Novak, a Chicago museum employee and
aspiring witch, explains to Henry that she cast a spell asking for an “old-fashioned gentleman,”
and that led to his appearance, it gives Henry a wonderful idea. If Rose can bring him forward in
time, perhaps she can also send him back to when his beloved wife, Charlotte, was still alive.
Donovan (Her Knight at the Museum, 2024) returns with another splendidly inventive paranormal
romance that cleverly capitalizes on her flair for creating fascinating characters as well as her
ability to create a fully realized setting that celebrates many of the things that make Chicago so
special.
— John Charles

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 3h

💙💙💙

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 3h

Oh yay! That is awesome!

Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 5h

Good luck to everyone! ✨

Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 5h

I am squeamish too, and it is not! I looked away at one scene, but then they cut away. 😊

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 5h

In DOUBLE HAPPINESS, Mei Li—caught between a relentless tech job, her adoring fiancé, and an unexpected new flame—must learn what it means to choose herself. Read more about it here! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/786842...
#booksky @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Double Happiness by Heather Eng: 9798217046980 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Caught between a relentless tech job, her adoring fiancé, and an unexpected new flame, Mei must learn what it means to choose herself. When Mei Li runs into Alexandre Brodeur at a family function,...

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 5h

I have permission to share! I am THRILLED about our client’s debut novel, which was snapped up by Penguin Random House in a pre-empt.
I've read thousands of query letters, and I love collaborating with authors on them. Bookmark our site for future reference! luckyauthor.com
#writesky #publishing

Lucky Author Success Story

book cover: Double Happiness by Heather Eng, featuring a woman wearing sunglasses, a skyline, the silhouettes of two men, and the Chinese “double happiness” symbol

“Even after countless revisions and feedback from other people,
I never felt like I quite nailed my query letter, which is why I turned to you. Once I saw your edits, I knew it was
the query letter that would get me an agent.
I signed with one soon after, and sold my novel the next year.”

- Heather Eng

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Michael Molcher @molcher.bsky.social · 5h

"I use it, it's just a tool like Photoshop," is the refrain from people I know that has me biting virtually clean through my tongue.

No. It's emptying you.

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 16h

Am married to a big guy and I worship at the temple of his soul regularly, so no worries 😘

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 16h

hahahaha

Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 16h

I loved House of Guinness so much I am going to watch all 10 episodes again. Gorgeous visuals, vivid characters, SEXY, fun style choices, soundtrack full of bangers (inc. one of my all time fave songs, "Starburster"by @fontainesdc.bsky.social, TWICE, like bookends) #tv #music #netflix ☘️🔥☘️🔥

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Common grackle presents a gorgeous profile
#birds 🌿

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations, Carolyn! 🥳🎉🎁🎄

Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 1d

This is pretty fucked up considering she has active stalkers and has recently beefed up security.

Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 1d

Romance master class today! I am co-teaching with an editor and a literary agent. Learn about writing romance tropes, light vs dark romance, and publishing trends. 3 pm EST / 3 pm CST!
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#writesky #romancelandia

Writing Swoon-worthy Romance

Join us for a masterclass on romance-writing, where you'll learn how to create sizzling chemistry, why tropes are a writer’s best friend, and what the romance market looks like today.

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 1d

But I have published one clean romance as Stacey Donovan, because I figure no one would expect a clean romance writer to be a former porn star. I may do more sweet romance under this name!
amzn.to/3IZoUPO

Sunrise Cabin: An Uplifting, Feel-Good Clean and Wholesome Romance

Amazon.com: Sunrise Cabin: An Uplifting, Feel-Good Clean and Wholesome Romance: 9781951952112: Donovan, Stacey: Books

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 1d

It's my author pen name. Before I signed my first writing contract I did a quick google of my real name and found I shared it with a popular vintage porn star. So I used the name of the song I was listening to at that moment ("Bryn," Vampire Weekend.)

🖤👻 Ashley Mayhem 👻🖤 @misskittyf.bsky.social · 1d

explain your username:

I started going by “Miss Kitty Fantastico” online when I started watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer as a teenager, but that was often too longer for a username on a lot of sites, so I shortened it to “misskittyf.” It’s stuck for nearly 20 years now.

debbspook @debbshock.blue · 3d

explain your username:

i'm debb + i'm in shock

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 1d

This was why I loved writing HER KNIGHT AT THE MUSEUM. Griffin is from the medieval period, before it became fashionable for guys to repress their feelings. And he's exuberant and was so much fun to write.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/749980...
#booksky #history #museumsky #romance

Her Knight at the Museum by Bryn Donovan: 9780593816592 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A centuries-long curse is no match for rom-com shenanigans when a medieval knight is brought to life in modern-day Chicago. Forgotten by time and abandoned by hope, Sir Griffin de Beauford’s existen...

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 1d

To me the Travis Kelce / Taylor Swift romance illustrates the appeal of the guy who does NOT play it cool.
Years ago, when I told Mr. Donovan I'd broken up with my boyfriend, he asked, "Do you want to take a road trip to California?" We were engaged 3 weeks later. Fortune favors the bold. 🩵

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 1d

A double entendre complimenting his podcast and his dick in one breath. Does it get more romantic?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider.

Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal process.

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

You may have the right to get a denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here’s how experts suggest you do it.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

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In exchange, when we sell the company to a drone and cobalt magnate so I can dive in a pool of gold coins Scrooge McDuck-style, you will be spared my wrath and retribution.

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 2d

Never too late! 🩵

Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 2d

I thought it was a fun date (my husband was a Swiftie before I was), and I loved talking to other fans, who gave me friendship bracelets. 🥰 Haters going to hate, hate, hate 😂

Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 3d

When you work long hours at a corporate job, you are not only cheating yourself. You are also cheating other people out of jobs, because you are making it easy for your employer to avoid hiring more employees...so that more money flows up to the already very rich.
#careeradvice #work

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 3d

3. (office/white collar jobs) Keep track of your hours. When someone tries to hand you a new task, take out your spreadsheet and ask them what they want you to cut. 👍🏻

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