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Launch Party for Love at First Sip!

As you can see, we have a full schedule of fun events! We will have two Q&As, one with indie erotica and romance author Emerald Baynton and one with traditionally-published erotic romance author Pixie Stormcrow. We will also have some live readings by three of the authors in the anthology, and we are giving away SO MANY PRIZES!

Two romance ebooks

One anthology ebook

The entire 5 novella Bloodlines series

Two $10 amazon gift cards

Want to come hang out? We would love to have you, even if you haven’t read the anthology! Come and chill with some authors, maybe learn some stuff or just spend an afternoon enjoying a docket of bookish events.

Join the discord here: https://discord.gg/b2QP2EhJU8

Hope to see you there! We’ll be starting promptly at 1pm EST this Friday

Jyvur Entropy and Emily S Hurricane get Dirty

Emily's Hurricane

Yeah, yeah, I know, we’re always dirty, but you haven’t read this interview yet. This is your blanket warning for NSFW content, in case you didn’t get the memo from the title. Aside from the delightfully steamy excerpt at the end, this is an interview with the talented author Jyvur Entropy, and when she and I get together we end up talking about porn. Sometimes, incredibly gross porn. So, maybe don’t read this if you’re squeamish or in public. Or do. It’s like, your choice, man.

A big warm Hurricane welcome to Mrs. Entropy, not only one of my favourite authors but someone I am proud to call a friend. She’s written in a ton of genres, from horror to romance to historical to erotica to dystopian to…you get the point. Her books are always powerful in one way or another, and now she’s joined me for not one but…

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Selling and Marketing Romance/Erotica: Interview with Emerald Baynton

I spoke with indie romance and erotica author Emerald Baytnon. She shared some of what she has learned about wiring, selling, and marketing romance and erotica and amazon. She also tells us about her experiences working on anthologies and having her books made into audiobooks via ACX.

Keep up with Emerald here!: https://www.emeraldscreations.org/ Emerald’s etsy store: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/EmeraldB…

Preorder Love at First Sip: https://books2read.com/u/bPQver Preorder Secrets: https://books2read.com/u/4A5B2N

Want to attend the release day launch party for Love at First Sip? Join contributing authors for live readings, Q&A sessions, trivia, and loads of prizes! We’ll be giving away loads of ebooks and other small prizes. Join The Writer’s Block discord to hang out and attend the stream 11/19 at 1pm EST Discord: https://discord.gg/vNC8QMDk

Diversity in Romance – Guest Post by Alix Hicks

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Another guest post today! I am so lucky to have so many talented authors willing to contribute content for all of you to read. And even better, they are all featured in our upcoming anthologies! You can find the details for Love at First Sip and Secrets in a previous post linked below.

https://emeraldbaynton.wordpress.com/2021/11/07/why-romances-books-are-awesome-guest-post-by-j-devene/

And now! On to Alix’s thoughts on diversity in romance and LGBTQ+ representation, thanks so much for joining us Alix.

I used to think of reading and writing as pure escapism. I loved getting lost in worlds different from my own and, more importantly, escaping into someone else’s shoes. They didn’t have to have it great. Hell, their futures could be crumbling around them, but it was really nice to be able to imagine being that person–that guy.

A man who didn’t have to put on a binding vest before being comfortable going out in…

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GUEST POST: Dee Rasha talks Collaborative Projects

Emily's Hurricane

I love collaborating with other authors, even though I hated group projects in college: Here’s why!

I love collaborating with other authors. I truly do. It’s how I got into writing in the first place.

Actually, the very first story I have written was not mine alone. It was a joint effort between my cousin and I. We were in our early teens, we didn’t have cell phones, we didn’t use email, although we had a computer at home. Internet was not a thing then. At the time, we wrote actual letters to each other and in every letter, each of us wrote a part of our story and left it open in the middle of a scene or finished with a cliffhanger and the other one continued.

For those who don’t know how letters on a paper look like Here is our story in making.

My very first…

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Indie Book Review: Don’t Read This Book After Dark Vol. 1

This was such a fun horror anthology! A great blend of tropes and settings! And so many of them were unpredictable and kept me guessing right up until the very end. That’s hard to do in the horror genre, but even more so with a collection of 22 stories written by only 3 authors. To come up with so many stories and all of them are so unique and with twists I didn’t see coming.

One of my favorites from the collection is Negative Space. I really couldn’t tell where the story was going and without giving away any major spoilers, when they find the DRUM-ohmygosh! So visceral and gruesome. The fact that so much was left open-ended and not explained with that story also added a ton to the eerieness. And then residual booming in the MC’s mind…that alone is absolute horror.

Some of my other favorites are Scales, The Book, Ol’ Mister Scarecrow, and The Mirror.

The Mirror and Ol’Mister Scarecrow are similar in tropes/themes. Like the way the ending plays out follows the same format in each story, but both are executed in such different ways that it doesn’t feel repetitive in the same collection.

Also, the death by emoji story is hilarious. I love the part when he tries to text “hey ghost motherfucker stop it right now” and the haunted phone sends a sparkling heart emoji instead. A lot of great dark humor in that story.

Overall, a great blend of monsters and tropes. We have everything from haunted scarecrows to haunted mirrors to haunted cell phones, undead dopplegangers, drums that break reality, killer rainwater, and a ton more. If you’re in the mood to power through a collection of creepy stories with loads of twists, I highly recommend this indie author anthology.

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November/December TBR

Every once in a while, I feel like writing a staple book blogging post. Today is one of those days!

I’m a slow reader and read multiple books at once, so it makes more sense for me to create a TBR for at least the next two months.

I also make it a point to read books in a variety of different mediums, so I’ll break my TBR down into category of book. I tend to hop around depending on my mood and that’s why it can often take me a very long time to finish a book.

Books I own that I need to finish Reading

The Long Guest was an arc gifted to me ages ago and I’ve been slowly making my way through it. I’m an abysmally slow reader, but the author has patiently waited for a review for long enough. Time to finish this one already!

Then I have a horror anthology that I bought. I know two of the authors involved in the antho, so definitely want to review the book and support their work.

Library Books I have checked out

I’m reading both of these for two different discord book clubs. I’m struggling with both. Dracula gets a bit boring in the second act and Dark Lover has a really obnoxious ham-fisted feminist message.

Books in my Kindle Library

I have another book about the problems with the pharmaceutical industry and I have a futanari smut….I’m a woman of many interests.

Digital Arcs to Read

Two of these I received directly from the authors and need to get caught up and review these! The Egg is one that I downloaded from booksprout.

Wattpad Books to Read

Persephone is a really gritty story about a hot mess of a charater. The Jump is all about a woman is very lost and looking for a new start in life. Both have been really great reads so far.

Vella Serials I Need to Get Caught up On

The first one is a typical zombie story, but it’s so fun and exciting. The second is a science fiction that also works as an Adam and Eve (or maybe Paradise Lost?) allegory.

That’s it for me!

I don’t know if I’ll make it through all of these before the end of the year, but I shall certainly try

Have you read any of these stories? What’s on your TBR?

I’d love to chat up books in the comments.

WWW Weds: No More Darcy Coates Books for Me

This is a weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words.

What Did I Recently Finish Reading?

I didn’t so much finish and I DNF’d.

And while I LOVED Coates’ book ‘The Haunting of Leigh Harker’ more than any other horror novel I’ve ever read, I will never read another Darcy Coates book again.

I’m disgusted.

So Coates wrote this character who is all into conspiracy theories and nonsense. She’s always rambling about bigfoot and UFOS.

This character threw in a line about ‘Big Pharma’ and the other characters laugh it off like it’s another nonsense conspiracy theory.

WHAT THE FUCK.

The insidious influence of the pharmaceutical companies on doctors and standards of patient care has been well-documented in mainstream news sources.

Why aren’t more people upset that CORPORATIONS control the treatment that you will receive from your doctor? CORPORATIONS market directly to doctors, pay doctors to use their name for research papers they’ve ghostwritten, create content for medical school courses. YES, Purdue Pharma, one of the largest manufacturers of opioid drugs creates pain management course content that is used in medical schools.

A CORPORATION with a vested interest in making sure as many pain pills are prescribed as possible, has a hand in educating doctors on how to treat pain.

There are so many examples like this!

70% of the doctors on the board for the DSM 4 were receiving money directly from pharma corporations. One of those doctors was receiving money from Risperdal, a drug approved by the FDA to treat bipolar disorder in children. What did that doctor receiving money from Risperdal do? Advocated to expand the diagnostic parameters of bipolar disorder for children in the DSM 4.

So the influence goes all the way to DISEASE DEFINITIONS. DISEASES ARE DEFINED BY CORPORATIONS.

It makes me wild that more people aren’t mad about this.

And FUCK Darcy Coates for making it look like a conspiracy theory. Plenty of academic peer-reviewed journals have reported on these conflicts of interest.

Just google financial ties between pharma and the DSM.

I have loads and loads of sources if anyone wants to get started researching this terrible problem, a problem that kills thousands of people every year. The opioid epidemic is not a joke, Darcy Coates.

In my End Pharma Influence discord server, I have many resources to get started learning about this. You can join by clicking here.

I also put together a youtube documentary on this issue. It’s lengthy, so if you don’t have time to watch, I have a plethora of sources in the Works Cited list in the description.

But yeah…not a conspiracy theory. These conflicts of interest are well-documented. For some reason, nobody gives a fuck.

You should give a fuck.

Darcy Coates doesn’t and is actively laughing at anyone who thinks the opioid epidemic is a tragedy.

Probably she just hasn’t done her research and doesn’t understand the gravity of what she did.

I don’t care. It’s on her as the author to do her damn research and not say ignorant shit.

And that’s not to say an author can’t have an ignorant character. But that’s the thing, Coates frames the anti-pharma influence character as the ignorant one. With the people laughing off her “wild conspiracy theories” as the reasonable ones.

So many people have died from taking drugs prescribed by their doctors: professionals they thought they could trust.

I find it despicable that anyone would laugh that off. No more Darcy Coates books for me.

Okay, moving on…

I also read a couple of smuts that my friend Emily Hurricane wrote under her Arlene Tempest pen name.

Both of these stories are super hot. I highly recommend them if you like gang-bang smut.

What Am I Currently Reading?

I’m reading two books for two different discord book clubs.

I’m struggling a bit with this book. I’m trying to give it a chance because it’s a classic. But damn, it’s gets really boring past the 100 page mark.

And I’m also reading this vampire romance. It’s not something I ever would have picked up myself, so it’s interesting to give it a chance. I’m not really vibing with it though. While I live all the vampire worldbuilding, the book just reads as pure feminist propaganda.

 In the first 30 pages, the female protagonist gets told that she can’t do the same work as “the big boys”, gets called just a pretty face and sexually-harassed by her boss, gets cat-called, gets assaulted and is the victim of attempted rape, and man-handled by a cop….All in the first 30 pages….So are the feminists wet yet? Because I’m sure not.

Also, the male lead if 6 foot 9 and is a VAMPIRE WARRIOR KING.

What Will I Read Next?

Two anthologies that I’m in!

I’m super excited. Two different anthologies that my stories were included in are being released on November 19th and I’ll be holding copies of both in my hands soon!

While I had the chance to read many of the stories at different points of completion as we worked on these projects over the past year, I haven’t read all of them and haven’t read any except mine in their final form.

Here are the two anthos!

Goodreads | Preorder link!

Goodreads | Preorder here!

And if you want to attend the launch day party for Love at First Sip…

Join contributing authors for live readings, Q&A sessions, trivia, and loads of prizes! We’ll be giving away loads of ebooks and other small prizes. Join The Writer’s Block discord to hang out and attend the stream 11/19 at 1pm EST

That’s it for me this week. What are you reading?

GUEST POST: Jyvur Entropy on How to Interview for Content Creation

Check out this guest post I wrote for Emily Hurricane’s blog. It’s all about how to interview for a blog or podcast.

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I love interviewing people on my blog and youtube channel. It’s a really fun way to learn, network, and provide all kinds of different information to my audience. I think at this point I’ve conducted enough interviews and been interviewed myself (both on podcasts and blogs) to be able to give some advice on how to plan and conduct smooth interviews. 

Research Your Guest

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With an interview of any format, the first thing you want to do is research. I come up with all of my questions by researching the person thoroughly. I don’t know how I’d figure out which questions to ask if I didn’t check out the person’s projects, social media accounts, website, etc. 

When I interviewed fantasy-romance author Angela Ford on my blog, I would never have known to ask her about her podcast with Stephanie BwaBwa if I hadn’t researched…

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5 tips for hosting an Anthology – Guest post by Emily S Hurricane

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As promised today I have the pleasure of hosting the loquacious (that’s just a word for someone who talks a lot, which I learned when I was a kid and the adults around me started calling me that) Emily Hurricane.

Emily in the mastermind and glue, scaffolding, all the construction terms, person behind the two anthologies I’ve had the pleasure to be included in. Just yesterday I blabbed all about the details of these books so I wont bore you again but if you missed it, check out yesterdays post below.

https://emeraldbaynton.wordpress.com/2021/11/07/why-romances-books-are-awesome-guest-post-by-j-devene/

You can pre order Love at First Sip and Secrets today, just in time for their shared release date on November 19th 2021!

Now without further adieu prepare to be educated on all things anthology related by Emily, thanks for lending us your expertise today!

Five Things You Need to Know Before Hosting an Anthology

Hi! I’m Emily…

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