Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada
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The Association of Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada is a Nova Scotia registered society, dedicated to enhancing the craft and art of romance writing, and advancing the careers of our members. Join us! More at our website: https://romanceac.ca/
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Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid has 5 books on the Canadian bestseller list this week
#Canada
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#Canada
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Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid has 5 books on the Canadian bestseller list this week | CBC Books
Here are the bestselling Canadian fiction, nonfiction and children's books from Jan. 10-17, which include five of Rachel Reid's Game Changers novels.
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January 21, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid has 5 books on the Canadian bestseller list this week
#Canada
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#Canada
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Romancing the Gothic organises free talks every Saturday all through the year!
Our talks are open to all, happen at two different times (usually) so people can join us from different time zones, and are free (though donations welcome to support the programme)
This year's programme below!
Our talks are open to all, happen at two different times (usually) so people can join us from different time zones, and are free (though donations welcome to support the programme)
This year's programme below!
December 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Romancing the Gothic organises free talks every Saturday all through the year!
Our talks are open to all, happen at two different times (usually) so people can join us from different time zones, and are free (though donations welcome to support the programme)
This year's programme below!
Our talks are open to all, happen at two different times (usually) so people can join us from different time zones, and are free (though donations welcome to support the programme)
This year's programme below!
Members (and non-members) in Nova Scotia can contribute short romance fiction to the Nova Swoons micro anthology. The submission deadline is January 22. More information: writers.ns.ca/programs/mic...
Micro-Anthology Series
Micro-Anthology Series The Micro-Anthology Series provides publication opportunities and encourages Nova Scotian readers to discover local authors. Micro-anthologies are distributed for free in print ...
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January 18, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Members (and non-members) in Nova Scotia can contribute short romance fiction to the Nova Swoons micro anthology. The submission deadline is January 22. More information: writers.ns.ca/programs/mic...
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Two authors have gone public about their experience with Totally Entwined aka Entwined Publishing. Issues include alleged contract breaches and rights reversion problems www.lisahenryonline.com/blog/stateme...
STatement from Lisa Henry & Sarah Honey regarding Totally Entwined (now known as Entwined Publishing)
Guys, this is a long one! And we wish it was shorter too, but believe us, it's been a saga. But if you are an author or an aspiring author, you'll want to read it all. No missing stairs on our...
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January 18, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Two authors have gone public about their experience with Totally Entwined aka Entwined Publishing. Issues include alleged contract breaches and rights reversion problems www.lisahenryonline.com/blog/stateme...
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January 13, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Our next meeting is Sunday, January 18, at 2 pm Atlantic. Our guest is Maria Vicente, Senior Literary Agent,
P.S. Literary Agency.
This is your opportunity to have all your questions about literary agents answered!! See members chat for online meeting link. Non-members contact us to attend.
P.S. Literary Agency.
This is your opportunity to have all your questions about literary agents answered!! See members chat for online meeting link. Non-members contact us to attend.
January 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Our next meeting is Sunday, January 18, at 2 pm Atlantic. Our guest is Maria Vicente, Senior Literary Agent,
P.S. Literary Agency.
This is your opportunity to have all your questions about literary agents answered!! See members chat for online meeting link. Non-members contact us to attend.
P.S. Literary Agency.
This is your opportunity to have all your questions about literary agents answered!! See members chat for online meeting link. Non-members contact us to attend.
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Why is being desired by someone with power the ultimate fantasy?
In today’s Shelf Love post I unpack how desire + power shape our stories, and why we don't fantasize about utopia. #romancelandia
Read now
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In today’s Shelf Love post I unpack how desire + power shape our stories, and why we don't fantasize about utopia. #romancelandia
Read now
open.substack.com/pub/shelflov...
I Want You (to Want Me) So Badly
Why do we fantasize about being desirable to the powerful rather than fantasizing about a utopia of equality?
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January 2, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Why is being desired by someone with power the ultimate fantasy?
In today’s Shelf Love post I unpack how desire + power shape our stories, and why we don't fantasize about utopia. #romancelandia
Read now
open.substack.com/pub/shelflov...
In today’s Shelf Love post I unpack how desire + power shape our stories, and why we don't fantasize about utopia. #romancelandia
Read now
open.substack.com/pub/shelflov...
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It's Public Domain Day! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...
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January 1, 2026 at 5:17 PM
It's Public Domain Day! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
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Are there any cozy romance books that take place in or around a video store? Prefer one that’s available on audio but it’s not a requirement.
#BookSky @bookspotlight.bsky.social #ReadersOfBlueSky
#BookSky @bookspotlight.bsky.social #ReadersOfBlueSky
December 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Are there any cozy romance books that take place in or around a video store? Prefer one that’s available on audio but it’s not a requirement.
#BookSky @bookspotlight.bsky.social #ReadersOfBlueSky
#BookSky @bookspotlight.bsky.social #ReadersOfBlueSky
Some of our member releases this year: romanceac.ca/2025/12/28/2... #booksky
2025 Releases
Looking back at some of the many releases, re-releases, or finally released from our members this year. It seems to have been a good year for Christmas stories. Click the author’s name to vis…
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December 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Some of our member releases this year: romanceac.ca/2025/12/28/2... #booksky
A holiday season solo wasn’t a daunting prospect for Shelley. She enjoyed her solitude. “But when a mutual friend said, ‘I’ve got a friend going out of town who is in desperate need of a pet sitter,’ I said, ‘Why not? I don’t have plans to spend Christmas with anyone.’”
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That Christmas she had completely given up on love. Then the house sitter showed up | CNN
Lauren Thomas was heading home for Christmas. Housesitter Shelley Couch was staying in Lauren’s house for the holidays. The two formed an unexpected connection which changed their lives forever.
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December 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
A holiday season solo wasn’t a daunting prospect for Shelley. She enjoyed her solitude. “But when a mutual friend said, ‘I’ve got a friend going out of town who is in desperate need of a pet sitter,’ I said, ‘Why not? I don’t have plans to spend Christmas with anyone.’”
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The closest I've come to a #Christmas #romance story, so far. Might eventually use this scene as the meet-cute for a novel. covell.ca/christmas-ri...
Christmas Ride
Decades ago, I drove airport shuttle buses and limousines, in various towns and cities. Depending on bookings and flights, I might wait hours at the airport. During one long wait, shortly before Ch…
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December 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The closest I've come to a #Christmas #romance story, so far. Might eventually use this scene as the meet-cute for a novel. covell.ca/christmas-ri...
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A collection of three Christmas novellas to heat up the holidays!
Includes: Her Pretend Christmas Date, One Bed for Christmas, and A Second Chance Road Trip for Christmas.
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Includes: Her Pretend Christmas Date, One Bed for Christmas, and A Second Chance Road Trip for Christmas.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A collection of three Christmas novellas to heat up the holidays!
Includes: Her Pretend Christmas Date, One Bed for Christmas, and A Second Chance Road Trip for Christmas.
jackielaubooks.com/books/theres...
Includes: Her Pretend Christmas Date, One Bed for Christmas, and A Second Chance Road Trip for Christmas.
jackielaubooks.com/books/theres...
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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Sugar and spice and everything...naughty!
Let me read you a story tonight. 😉
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Let me read you a story tonight. 😉
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Thea Landen - Sultry Stories to Enchant and Excite - Audiobooks
Thea Landen lives in New York with her husband and children. Though she’s dabbled in all romantic subgenres, she has a special love for sci-fi, fantasy, and adventure…anything that pushes the imaginat...
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December 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Sugar and spice and everything...naughty!
Let me read you a story tonight. 😉
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Let me read you a story tonight. 😉
payhip.com/TheaLanden/c...
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December 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
December 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
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He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows you would taste really good
So be ready with your stake
Oh
You'd better not shout
You'd better not cry
He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi
Dracula is coming to town
He knows when you're awake
He knows you would taste really good
So be ready with your stake
Oh
You'd better not shout
You'd better not cry
He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi
Dracula is coming to town
December 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows you would taste really good
So be ready with your stake
Oh
You'd better not shout
You'd better not cry
He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi
Dracula is coming to town
He knows when you're awake
He knows you would taste really good
So be ready with your stake
Oh
You'd better not shout
You'd better not cry
He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi
Dracula is coming to town
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"Romantic fiction, however you define it, is about the things that matter most. It is about how we create community, and where that starts. It is about love and everything that happens because of it."
Not just love, actually: why romance fiction is booming
From Emily Henry to Rebecca Yarros and Alison Espach’s The Wedding People – romance has dominated the book charts this year. So why is it still dismissed by critics?
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December 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"Romantic fiction, however you define it, is about the things that matter most. It is about how we create community, and where that starts. It is about love and everything that happens because of it."
"Next year, the British Book Awards will recognise romantic fiction for the first time. The recognition is long overdue."
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The Guardian view on the rise of romantic fiction: finally getting the respect it deserves
Jilly Cooper, Joanna Trollope and Sophie Kinsella all changed the genre. A new generation of novelists are doing the same and sales are soaring
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December 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"Next year, the British Book Awards will recognise romantic fiction for the first time. The recognition is long overdue."
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Canadian economy rallies as #1 export now Heated Rivalry
Canadian economy rallies as #1 export now Heated Rivalry
OTTAWA - Canada's economy, which has spent the year reeling due to American tariffs, is finishing the year strong thanks to the country's new chief export, the gay hockey-romance drama Heated Rivalry.
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December 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Canadian economy rallies as #1 export now Heated Rivalry
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It's 1790 and you've just signed up for a #drawing class. What will you need to succeed? 🤔
🔎 Take a closer look at these works from Learning to Draw to find out! 👇
ℹ️ The Accademia Clementina, Bologna (detail), 1739, Giampietro Zanotti. Getty Museum
🔎 Take a closer look at these works from Learning to Draw to find out! 👇
ℹ️ The Accademia Clementina, Bologna (detail), 1739, Giampietro Zanotti. Getty Museum
December 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It's 1790 and you've just signed up for a #drawing class. What will you need to succeed? 🤔
🔎 Take a closer look at these works from Learning to Draw to find out! 👇
ℹ️ The Accademia Clementina, Bologna (detail), 1739, Giampietro Zanotti. Getty Museum
🔎 Take a closer look at these works from Learning to Draw to find out! 👇
ℹ️ The Accademia Clementina, Bologna (detail), 1739, Giampietro Zanotti. Getty Museum
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In honour of #JaneAusten250, I offer a couple of blog posts about my 2023 and 2025 visits to Jane Austen Country and Jane Austen's House.
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England 3: Jane Austen Country
Peak District, Pemberley, and Bath My England trip earlier this year included a modest Jane Austen pilgrimage, consisting of locations that were convenient to other travel plans. First stop was the…
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December 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In honour of #JaneAusten250, I offer a couple of blog posts about my 2023 and 2025 visits to Jane Austen Country and Jane Austen's House.
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NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.
was ‘heated rivalry’ failed by its publisher?
everyone's devouring the new TV series, so why can't people buy a copy of the book the show is based on?
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December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.
Great thread!
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Great thread!