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Helen
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Librarian. Romance and SFF reader. She/her.
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It's my birthday, so have a present. SLIPPERY CREATURES (Will Darling Adventures book 1) is going on cheap over the weekend. 1920s pulp adventure m/m romance with plots, spies, Bright Young People, and emotional support knife, all for 99p!
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles
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First time Cat has made a wrong move all series #CelebrityTraitors
When, from the pov character's point of view, the LI's expression "goes blank" or they can't read their expression.

Ties into my love of repressed characters in romance
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Register free now for next Sunday's virtual event with @charlottestein.bsky.social, celebrating her new novel DEALING WITH A DESPERATE DEMON! 🧡 Charlotte will appear in conversation with @oliviawaite.com.

We hope you'll join us, friends! Register free here: buff.ly/TAIar1B
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Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians
Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.
www.bbc.co.uk
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This Sunday (October 5) at 12 noon EST/ 5pm UK time, I'm talking with @alexandravasti.bsky.social and @felicityniven.bsky.social about all things Gothic Romance!

Catch us at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfmk...
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The Romance Reading Group is back with our first session of the new academic year! Join us from 6-7pm (BST) on Monday 29th September to (finally!) discuss Laura Steven’s queer reincarnation romance, Our Infinite Fates. We can’t wait to see you! 💕📚
3 of 5 stars to Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession

There's a BBC TV series coming and I've no idea how they're going to adapt it - so much of the book is quiet routine with wry observations from an omniscient narrator.

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Helen's review of Leonard and Hungry Paul
3/5: Gently humourous book about kind, quiet people living ordinary lives. I wasn't particularly engaged (hence 3 stars) and the whimsy was a bit much for me at times, but I would recommend it to anyo...
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I'm in my biggest reading slump in ages, but I did finish a very good nonfiction book about the history of gender nonconformity.

4 of 5 stars to Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
A History Today Book of the YearFinalist for the Lambda…
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Ruck seeing Melanthe for the first time in For My Lady’s Heart is pretty memorable.

Also Zylar the alien meeting Beyrl in Strange Love by Ann Aguirre
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A series of giveaways on my books for June, my least fave month of the year! firstly, You Are Here: Ten More Stories, my second short story collection, full of spaceships, ghosts, and also romcoms and queers. If you'd like to win one, repost this and I'll pick a winner at the weekend.
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My “you’re over 30” advice is hold onto the bannister. Stairs will kill you and not even look back
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Might be time to issue my yearly reminder of a possibly more useful test than the Bechel test:

1. Is your book/TV show etc. set in space?
2. Does it have pirates?
3. Are a goodly percentage of them queer?

Realizing Andor kinda got …3 out of 3?? not bad!? (Rebels = pirates, I’ll allow it)
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
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sometimes cinema is all about letting us know who is the most beautiful woman in the world. and this month it's hayley atwell.
Shout out to the ALT text
Bath time for ruru at BirdCare Aotearoa #owlsintowels
birdcareaotearoa.org.nz
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A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.
My April reads. In a bit of a slump. Although I didn't record my re-reads of the first 4 Murderbot novellas because I read via audio while doing other things so I felt like it didn't count (I know!)
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HELLO 👋 i am ENORMOUSLY excited to say: i've written a book! and i'm writing two more! and they're all queer romcoms! and the first one, FALL INTO YOU, will be out in JUNE. there is a LOT of my heart in this novel, and i absolutely can't wait to share it with you 💜
Storm has acquired the book, film and television rights to Fall Into You and two other queer romantic comedy novels from fan fiction writer Dylan Morrison. 👇 #BookSky
Storm Publishing makes three-book deal with fan-fiction writer Dylan Morrison
www.thebookseller.com
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"The show-within-a-show stars John Cho, Jack McBrayer, Clark Gregg, and DeWanda Wise, sporting outrageous hairstyles and costumes that make the stylings of A Flock of Seagulls look like business casual." oh my God they're doing Sanctuary Moon, say thank you Apple TV+
‘Murderbot’ Would Hate You—But That’s Why You’ll Love It
A first look at Alexander Skarsgård’s sci-fi comedy series from ‘About a Boy’ filmmakers Chris and Paul Weitz.
www.vanityfair.com