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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Feb 18

@biggretchenwhitmer.bsky.social let’s help MI stand strong on more than 2.4 bill of economic activity here!

Cara @picsuresque1.bsky.social · Feb 12

North Carolina benefits from $2.28 billion in NIH research funding to support 25,081 jobs, innovation, & education, translating to $5.34 billion in economic activity.
Free funds, protect workers!
@thomtillis.bsky.social
@joshsteinnc.bsky.social

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Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order

The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Feb 18

@biggretchenwhitmer.bsky.social the NIH invests nearly $1b into Michigan but this stimulates more than 2 times as much in economic activity. People I love rely on the innovations of these trials continuing. Please protect Michiganders however you can!

Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Feb 17

‼️📚announcement 📚‼️
After KU royalties hit a historic low, I've had to make some business decisions. Regency and Rivalry is going wide. Here's when you can expect each title to leave!

Stay tuned for when you can see these titles on other retailers and in your library!

#booksky
#romancebooks

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Jan 17

It's Character Art Reveal day!

How beautiful is this art by @priti_designs !? Odette and Wyatt were made for one another!

#booksky

Find the links to preorder, get a special preorder gift, or grab a spredges copy at linktr.ee/maudewinters

Reposted by Maude Winters

Dez29 @dez29.bsky.social · Jan 14

RandiB 👑

Repost @MahoganyBooks Wow, what is more powerful than amplifying someone else’s bestsellers list of Black books?

📣Please save & share this post and help us shine the light on these authors AND bookstores. 🖤

🔗 📚
#blackbookstorecoalition @blackbookstorecoalition
#RandiB

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Jan 15

This is something that I found so egregious after unpacking that I wrote it into the trauma history of a character - one in a marriage crisis. #booksky

Not sure why this is hitting me SO hard today, but if you needed to hear it, now you have. (4/4)

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Jan 15

It was degrading and painful. It was also terrible advice - advice still popular.

You do not owe anyone sex.

Maintenance sex is sex without consent. You know what that means. (3/4)

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Jan 15

If you don't use the mower regularly, it will not turn over easily the next time. So you should use it and "maintain it properly".

He specialized in prenatal and postpartum mental healthcare and gave this unsolicited advice every appointment.

He knew my trauma history, too. (2/4)

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Jan 15

Reason #4001 I write romance...

"Maintenance sex" isn't anyone's job.

Because women deserve pleasure and no one is owed sex.

My postpartum shrink said that "most mothers" needed a "routine" after having babies and "worried about my marriage". My libido was a lawnmower... #feminism (1/4)

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Jan 7

Linktr.ee/maudewinters will get you there. Lakeshore dynasty is an age gap forbidden billionaire series set in Chicago! It has all the stakes and angst you’d expect. But also lots of spice and swoon.

Interested? Please apply!!

@Maude | LinktreeLinktree

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Jan 7

Since I’m off Book Sirens but still looking for #arcreaders for my upcoming billionaire series and since we’re all leaving the bad places, you all have found me here, I’m shooting my shot.

My ARC and Influencer forms are open. See 🔗 below!

#arcreaderswanted
#romancebooks
#booksky

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Jan 3

‼️👑 TROPE REVEAL 👑‼️

Royally Benevolent releases 2/14 and you can pr3ord3r it now on the Zon
books2read.com/royally benevolent

This read has: 
💼 Billionaire single dad 
👠 neurodiverse heroine and mental health rep
💖 Age Gap
🐶 Dog-initiated meet-cute

#romancenovel
#billionaireromance

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Dec 27

Last chance!!!! Many of these go poof at midnight!

Today ONLY! Get your free romance books with the book blast on romancebookworms.com

More than 2200 romance e-books are available in various formats. The best part? You can get my debut (London Season) for FREE right now!

#romancebooks
#freebooks

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Dec 26

Did someone say FREE Romance books?

Today ONLY! Get your free romance books with the book blast on romancebookworms.com

More than 2200 romance e-books are available in various formats. The best part? You can get my debut (London Season) for FREE right now!

#romancebooks
#freebooks

Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Dec 16

Authors of #booksky , check your name and look for scam accounts posing as you. I am reporting accounts that appear to be legit but are only sliding into DMs to hawk the services of @krenjwoods.bsky.social

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Dec 15

I'm sure my husband would be thrilled lol!

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Dec 15

Me: I have no time in my life for sexting. I am old and boring.

Also me while writing: Let me make this text conversation as filthy as possible.

I am not my characters, folks. Promise. But dang, sometimes I wish I was that fabulous LOL.

#authorlife
#romancenovel
#indieauthor
#booksky

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Dec 12

Ready to get spicy this Christmas?

Check out Stranded with Scrooge and find out what happens when two bookish characters get stranded at the airport. Will they make it home to London? Do they even care?

Find out on KU
books2read.com/strandedwithscrooge

#christmasromance
#christmasnovella

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Dec 11

Looking for an own-voice book written with mental health rep and a curvy, neurodivergent heroine? Stop scrolling and grab it on preorder now!

book2read.com/royallybenevolent

Enjoy some fun Astrid quotes with no context in the meantime!

#romancenovel
#billionaireromance
#singledadtrope

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Dec 11

In Yachts and Yuletide, a Christmas boat parade brings together a prince and his friend’s jilted sister who must work together to best the competition. In the end, they get more than they bargained for.  

Books2read.com/yachtsandyuletide

#christmasromance
#christmasnovella

Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Dec 6

Stranded with Scrooge is on sale now for a limited time!

Grab a copy of this amazing little Christmas novella With a not-so-cute meet cute and a lot of Stranded at the Airport action.

books2read.com/strandedwithscrooge

#christmasromance
#christmasnovella
#grumpysunshine
#onebedtrope

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Dec 6

👑‼️COVER REVEAL TIME‼️👑

Royally Benevolent releases 2/14.

You won’t want to miss out on this amazing, angsty billionaire singled dad spicy romance with mental health rep!

books2read.com/royallybenevolent

#romancenovel
#billionaireromance
#agegap
#singledadtrope
#mentalhealthrep
#angstyromance

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Dec 5

Lars is not afraid to put that degree to good use for a woman in need - especially for his best friend's little sister in this quick, spicy read.

Grab it here:
books2read.com/yachtsandyuletide

#christmasromance
#christmasnovella
#brothersbestfriend
#fakedatingtrope
#royalromance

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Dec 2

I’m officially a grown up today since a kid delivering our new induction range announced “this is a cool thing you can buy with grown up money”. Yes, it required rewiring our entire house and two deliveries to get it right but I guess we now are grown ups in our 30s/40s.

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Maude Winters @maudewinters.bsky.social · Dec 1

Off to write. Road is pleasantly clear and the remote start is coming in clutch. Wish me well on my journey. I need to get some words down before I lose it. I need to write a spicy scene and a corporate coup today. #author #indieauthor #romancebook

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