Lauren Morrill
@laurenmorrill.bsky.social
Author of spicy romcoms, co-owner of Good Girl Books (Knoxville), ravenous romance reader, and inveterate yapper.
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Lauren Morrill
@laurenmorrill.bsky.social
· Apr 30
Whelp, I have some big news! My good friend Rayanne has been running a mobile romance book truck for the last year, and she’s done so well that it’s time to open a brick and mortar. And that’s where I come in! I’m going into business with her to bring Good Girl Books THE STORE to Knoxville!
I’m shocked and thrilled and can’t wait to wear my IU sweats to the gym on Monday and make all the Tennessee fans eat it. All those old men last year saying Indiana was soft … BIG TEN CHAMPS BAYBEEEEE! KNOCKED OFF THE #1 TEAM!
December 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I’m shocked and thrilled and can’t wait to wear my IU sweats to the gym on Monday and make all the Tennessee fans eat it. All those old men last year saying Indiana was soft … BIG TEN CHAMPS BAYBEEEEE! KNOCKED OFF THE #1 TEAM!
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How much sex there is or when it starts or how specifically it’s described or how it intersects with talking about feelings isn’t what makes a story romance or something else. Genre romance is central romantic plot + happily ever after (or happy for now). Aside from that, go … nuts.
December 7, 2025 at 3:42 AM
How much sex there is or when it starts or how specifically it’s described or how it intersects with talking about feelings isn’t what makes a story romance or something else. Genre romance is central romantic plot + happily ever after (or happy for now). Aside from that, go … nuts.
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I can’t stop thinking about the “maybe build up to a chaste kiss at the end of the season” review and just laughing
what if at the Red Wedding instead of being murdered everyone was just lightly bonked on the head
what if at the Red Wedding instead of being murdered everyone was just lightly bonked on the head
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I can’t stop thinking about the “maybe build up to a chaste kiss at the end of the season” review and just laughing
what if at the Red Wedding instead of being murdered everyone was just lightly bonked on the head
what if at the Red Wedding instead of being murdered everyone was just lightly bonked on the head
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I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison
December 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison
Took our store’s pink book truck in the neighborhood Christmas parade, and my fuzzy daughter walked with us. She was in her element, getting pets from children!
December 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Took our store’s pink book truck in the neighborhood Christmas parade, and my fuzzy daughter walked with us. She was in her element, getting pets from children!
Today I learned Frank Gehry didn’t become famous as an architect until he was in his sixties so many we can all just chill the fuck out on the 30 under 30 lists?
December 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Today I learned Frank Gehry didn’t become famous as an architect until he was in his sixties so many we can all just chill the fuck out on the 30 under 30 lists?
Oh I loooooved this book. It’s soapy and swoony and funny and will be a fantastic read on a cold, gray day.
December 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Oh I loooooved this book. It’s soapy and swoony and funny and will be a fantastic read on a cold, gray day.
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The digital version of my book is on sale from the good place for $2.99!! bookshop.org/p/books/i-wa...
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
Essays
bookshop.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The digital version of my book is on sale from the good place for $2.99!! bookshop.org/p/books/i-wa...
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The "R" word is a revived slur for the newly shameless.
My pitch for not using it ever.
A quick and dirty thread: 🧵
My pitch for not using it ever.
A quick and dirty thread: 🧵
My uncle Kevin Hanley suffered a brain injury at birth in ‘46. Doctors told my grandmother to send him away and forget about her “mentally retarded” infant. She refused - Kev went on to HS, Special Olympics, worked at Stop & Shop in Quincy, lived independently. He was the light of our family.
December 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The "R" word is a revived slur for the newly shameless.
My pitch for not using it ever.
A quick and dirty thread: 🧵
My pitch for not using it ever.
A quick and dirty thread: 🧵
It’s what this timeline deserves
Source. I am so goddamned annoyed.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It’s what this timeline deserves
This and the post about how Wonderful Christmas Time sounds like people practicing witchcraft when someone walks into the room have brought an added layer of delight to my holiday season
December 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This and the post about how Wonderful Christmas Time sounds like people practicing witchcraft when someone walks into the room have brought an added layer of delight to my holiday season
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My fella’s old band had 25 million streams on Spotify this year, which should translate to everyone in our house sleeping on a pile of ermine coats, but what it really translates to makes no discernible material difference in anyone’s lives. That’s how I feel about Spotify wrapped.
December 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
My fella’s old band had 25 million streams on Spotify this year, which should translate to everyone in our house sleeping on a pile of ermine coats, but what it really translates to makes no discernible material difference in anyone’s lives. That’s how I feel about Spotify wrapped.
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I think it's probably bad if the terms "war crimes" and "pedophiles" are coming up a lot when people talk about your administration
December 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I think it's probably bad if the terms "war crimes" and "pedophiles" are coming up a lot when people talk about your administration
If nothing else, this put the fear of god into Republicans eager to gerrymander every district to a razor thin margin.
Fucjin R+22 to R+5.6? In an off year election?? In a district gerrymandered to fuck to keep it republican?? Fuck yeah, TN07, y'all done good. Swinging a district like that 16 points is hard goddamned work so y'all go have something to eat and get some rest.
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
If nothing else, this put the fear of god into Republicans eager to gerrymander every district to a razor thin margin.
That's not a very nice thing to say about your daughter --- wait, I'm getting some new info ... Oh.
omg the review/vivisection of Nuzzi's book in The Washington Post begins "I am told that writers used to be interesting."
December 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
That's not a very nice thing to say about your daughter --- wait, I'm getting some new info ... Oh.
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[GLEN enters, crosses to center of room, flips folding chair around, sits in it backwards and rolls up his sleeves]
“We’re not doing this again this year. Any of it. Your takes on DIE HARD, “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” Hallmark movie cliches, they’re done. They’re over. Stop.
“We’re not doing this again this year. Any of it. Your takes on DIE HARD, “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” Hallmark movie cliches, they’re done. They’re over. Stop.
December 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
[GLEN enters, crosses to center of room, flips folding chair around, sits in it backwards and rolls up his sleeves]
“We’re not doing this again this year. Any of it. Your takes on DIE HARD, “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” Hallmark movie cliches, they’re done. They’re over. Stop.
“We’re not doing this again this year. Any of it. Your takes on DIE HARD, “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” Hallmark movie cliches, they’re done. They’re over. Stop.
For that matter, do not ask us (a bookstore) to price match Target. We will have a very very hard time being respectful as we tell you no, we do not.
PSA: please please please do not use independent retailers as “amazon showrooms” this holiday season. we see you and it’s disheartening AF
November 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
For that matter, do not ask us (a bookstore) to price match Target. We will have a very very hard time being respectful as we tell you no, we do not.
I remember seeing a reading from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at a high school forensics tournament and even when done by a pair of high school theater kids (derogatory AND complimentary), I was blown away
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I remember seeing a reading from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at a high school forensics tournament and even when done by a pair of high school theater kids (derogatory AND complimentary), I was blown away
Over on threads my mentions are lit up with men defending the use of AI in the creative process and every single one has a profile pic that makes them look like a quarter cup of lukewarm mayonnaise.
November 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Over on threads my mentions are lit up with men defending the use of AI in the creative process and every single one has a profile pic that makes them look like a quarter cup of lukewarm mayonnaise.
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we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
we have to go back. to warn them.
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To thine own self please be fr
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
To thine own self please be fr
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If you’re ready to hide from your family with a good book, the first in my spicy small town series is FREE until the 30th! #romancelandia
www.amazon.com/More-Than-Fe...
www.amazon.com/More-Than-Fe...
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If you’re ready to hide from your family with a good book, the first in my spicy small town series is FREE until the 30th! #romancelandia
www.amazon.com/More-Than-Fe...
www.amazon.com/More-Than-Fe...
If you’re ready to hide from your family with a good book, the first in my spicy small town series is FREE until the 30th! #romancelandia
www.amazon.com/More-Than-Fe...
www.amazon.com/More-Than-Fe...
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If you’re ready to hide from your family with a good book, the first in my spicy small town series is FREE until the 30th! #romancelandia
www.amazon.com/More-Than-Fe...
www.amazon.com/More-Than-Fe...
Had a small Thanksgiving this year, so we went with chicken instead of turkey. One of the best Thanksgiving meals ever (not pictured: stuffing, gravy, and the traditional sister Schubert rolls). Those veggies were INCREDIBLE
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Had a small Thanksgiving this year, so we went with chicken instead of turkey. One of the best Thanksgiving meals ever (not pictured: stuffing, gravy, and the traditional sister Schubert rolls). Those veggies were INCREDIBLE
“Rigatoni Pony” sounds like a 70s porn name, and I approve, Rao’s float
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“Rigatoni Pony” sounds like a 70s porn name, and I approve, Rao’s float