JuliaEdits
@juliaedits.bsky.social
Careful book editing for indie romance authors. My resting bitchface brings all the boys to the yard. JuliaEdits.com - [email protected] (she/her)
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this reminds me of the Bridgerton response and how people were so confused that the main characters *changed* after season one, like writing essays about why that was a bad choice
which seems like a logical thing to them, but an *insane* thing to say to anyone who understands genre romance.
which seems like a logical thing to them, but an *insane* thing to say to anyone who understands genre romance.
but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
November 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
Oh this makes me so sad. Seeing Arcadia—with no idea what it was about—remains my most transcendent moment of theater.
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Oh this makes me so sad. Seeing Arcadia—with no idea what it was about—remains my most transcendent moment of theater.
Starting Heated Rivalry on HBO not having read the book. Books? Anyway in I go! 🏒🥅
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Starting Heated Rivalry on HBO not having read the book. Books? Anyway in I go! 🏒🥅
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Hear me out, a remake of Love Actually that ends with multiple sexual harassment suits
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Hear me out, a remake of Love Actually that ends with multiple sexual harassment suits
Gasp-inducing moment in this ep as we discover it's rassle not wrassle. Why did I, too, think it started with a w?!? My word nerd brain is broke!
The end of the year is nigh, and it's our holiday romance novel episode! We're talking about a collection of romances that are entirely new to us (except for the one moment where Sarah talks about that old McNaught short story that installed all her cold-weather romance buttons).
Holiday Romance 2025 — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People
The end of the year is nigh, and it's our holiday romance novel episode! We're talking about a collection of romances that are entirely new to us (except for the one moment where Sarah talks about tha...
fatedmates.net
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Gasp-inducing moment in this ep as we discover it's rassle not wrassle. Why did I, too, think it started with a w?!? My word nerd brain is broke!
Ahhhhhhh I loved this book and it's out now!
SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE is warm, cozy, & out today. I hope you love it! 💗
The story: A cranky baker's erroneous obituary brings the woman who got away back into his life--& now he needs to convince her to stay.
The heat level: steamy!
The baked goods: plentiful!
www.harpercollins.com/products/sec...
The story: A cranky baker's erroneous obituary brings the woman who got away back into his life--& now he needs to convince her to stay.
The heat level: steamy!
The baked goods: plentiful!
www.harpercollins.com/products/sec...
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Ahhhhhhh I loved this book and it's out now!
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like, in case you were wondering who all these regency heroines with a mercantile fortune were running from.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Aristocrat, 79, launches bid to find a Lady... who's 20 years younger
Sir Benjamin Slade, 79, says he'll pay his new wife £50,000-a-year to give him male heirs and tend to his sprawling 1,300-acre Somerset estate - but she must be able to ballroom dance and fire a shotg...
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
like, in case you were wondering who all these regency heroines with a mercantile fortune were running from.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Your Jewish friends would really like you to read this thread.
I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
We have to be SHARP on the left right now.
November 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Your Jewish friends would really like you to read this thread.
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
#Romancelandia, it's time to make plans for Spring Fling in April. I'll be there, teaching an editing workshop, alongside a slew of our industry superstars. Come on and join us!
Check out the full list of workshops and panels for our Spring Fling Writers Conference!
#WriterSky #AuthorSky #Amwriting #Chicago #ChicagoWriter #RomanceWriter
www.chicagonorthromancewriters.com/spring-fling-1
#WriterSky #AuthorSky #Amwriting #Chicago #ChicagoWriter #RomanceWriter
www.chicagonorthromancewriters.com/spring-fling-1
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
#Romancelandia, it's time to make plans for Spring Fling in April. I'll be there, teaching an editing workshop, alongside a slew of our industry superstars. Come on and join us!
Yep. Professional writers know they need an editor. Aspiring professional writers know they need an editor. It's only the wannabes and corner-cutters who think they can skip this step. (You can't.)
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#Romancelandia
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#Romancelandia
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Yep. Professional writers know they need an editor. Aspiring professional writers know they need an editor. It's only the wannabes and corner-cutters who think they can skip this step. (You can't.)
#AmEditing
#Romancelandia
#AmEditing
#Romancelandia
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Posting this PSA again: Authors! Please post on your contact page that you have ONE EMAIL account, make clear what it is, and let people know you don’t use any others. I’ve already received THREE emails from folks who saw my message & realized a spam email was fraudulent. #booksky
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Afterglow is doing a pivot? Stephanie Boyd is still leading editorial but they’re asking for different manuscripts, after cancelling a bunch of contracted books not that long ago. Maybe wait to find out more info before sending your manuscripts into this maelstrom.
They definitely never closed their submissions page, I know that for sure! But their new release page had been frozen for months. Now it's all updated, and they're looking for different stuff. From Oct 29:
New Writing Guidelines for Afterglow and Carina by Harlequin
Today, we are putting a spotlight on Afterglow by Harlequin and Carina by Harlequin, two Harlequin imprints that publish a…
www.writeforharlequin.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Afterglow is doing a pivot? Stephanie Boyd is still leading editorial but they’re asking for different manuscripts, after cancelling a bunch of contracted books not that long ago. Maybe wait to find out more info before sending your manuscripts into this maelstrom.
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sorry. i had to.
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
sorry. i had to.
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And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?'
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?'
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'
Great ep—I'm not just saying that because I edited Katie Reus's Falling for Nola, which manages to be a great little short where the h/h *don't* know each other before pg 1.
Also I just started Ladies in Waiting—it's delightful. Justice (and happy endings!) for Jane Austen's other ladies!
Also I just started Ladies in Waiting—it's delightful. Justice (and happy endings!) for Jane Austen's other ladies!
We definitely have a hope-became-reality hangover this morning, but we also have a very fun episode for you today! We're talking romance shorts -- not novellas, not short novels, but actual short stories under 15,000 words (or about 50 pages).
Romance Short Stories and the Ladies in Waiting Anthology — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People
We definitely have a hope-became-reality hangover this morning, but we also have a very fun episode for you today! We're talking romance shorts -- not novellas, not short novels, but actual short stor...
fatedmates.net
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Great ep—I'm not just saying that because I edited Katie Reus's Falling for Nola, which manages to be a great little short where the h/h *don't* know each other before pg 1.
Also I just started Ladies in Waiting—it's delightful. Justice (and happy endings!) for Jane Austen's other ladies!
Also I just started Ladies in Waiting—it's delightful. Justice (and happy endings!) for Jane Austen's other ladies!
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Chuck Schumer is a sentence.
November 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Chuck Schumer is a sentence.
BURY HIM FACE DOWN. 👏
"Bury him face down." This barn burner of an obit might feel hyperbolic to people who entered the world in the wake of 9/11; it's not. Cheney was one of the architects of today's American Christian conservatism. He was directly responsible for millions of deaths. Salt the earth where he's buried.
Dick Cheney departs the world he made: defector.com/dick-cheney-...
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
BURY HIM FACE DOWN. 👏
The real ones know that Barrons is the absolute demon king. Danger, world ending, someone’s gonna get eaten, and not in the fun way—Karen Marie Moning’s Fever series is the shit.
It's Halloween which means we're talking about monsters (complimentary)! We've done devils and witches and an entire season on monsters of all ilk, but we haven't done demons yet, and so here we are!
Romance Demons: Problématique — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People
It's Halloween which means we're talking about monsters (complimentary)! We've done devils and witches and an entire season on monsters of all ilk, but we haven't done demons yet, and so here we are! ...
fatedmates.net
November 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The real ones know that Barrons is the absolute demon king. Danger, world ending, someone’s gonna get eaten, and not in the fun way—Karen Marie Moning’s Fever series is the shit.
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New #WriterBeware blog post: an explainer on the huge Anthropic class action copyright settlement: what it is, how it happened, how writers with eligible infringed works may benefit financially, and what eligible writers should do next writerbeware.blog/2025/10/31/t...
The Anthropic Class Action Settlement: What You Need to Know Right Now - Writer Beware
One of the most urgent issues confronting writers and other creators right now is the use of copyrighted material for generative AI training. The large language models that power chatbots like OpenAI’...
writerbeware.blog
October 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
New #WriterBeware blog post: an explainer on the huge Anthropic class action copyright settlement: what it is, how it happened, how writers with eligible infringed works may benefit financially, and what eligible writers should do next writerbeware.blog/2025/10/31/t...
Really great panel at Steamy Lit. Thank you, @laurataylornamey.bsky.social, @aecosbyauthor.bsky.social, @elizamacarthur.bsky.social, Julio Maxwell, @authorkayerockwell.bsky.social and @swatiteerdhala.bsky.social.
#Romancelandia
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#SteamyLit
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October 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Really great panel at Steamy Lit. Thank you, @laurataylornamey.bsky.social, @aecosbyauthor.bsky.social, @elizamacarthur.bsky.social, Julio Maxwell, @authorkayerockwell.bsky.social and @swatiteerdhala.bsky.social.
#Romancelandia
#AmEditing
#SteamyLit
#Romancelandia
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#SteamyLit
Heyyyy if you’re at Steamy Lit, say hi! I answer all questions about editing and indie publishing!
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Heyyyy if you’re at Steamy Lit, say hi! I answer all questions about editing and indie publishing!
If you see this, quote with a vampire that is not Dracula.
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 AM
If you see this, quote with a vampire that is not Dracula.
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COUNT I
Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.
COUNT II
The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???
Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.
COUNT II
The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
COUNT I
Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.
COUNT II
The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???
Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.
COUNT II
The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???