New Year, New “Begin”nings!

#WIPSnips WOTD 💙

Celeste and Alex meet at Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Airport ✈️, believing they’ll be in a small metal tube for two legs of a flight, and in mere hours, they’ll be in warm Tucson, Arizona 🌵

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Happy New Year!

Seeking a few *volunteer* beta readers to read my 19k contemporary romance novella - plus size FMC & BWWM:

Tropes:

Rivals to lovers
Forced Proximity
Workplace romance (higher ed)
Slow burn
Liminal spaces

More info & signups below, no DMs.

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#BWWM #romancelandia #plussizeFMC #betareaders

#AwesomeCharacters

Celeste wants to start her tenure-track professor journey w/a good conference showing — while keeping her mind off her hot rival who hates her CV.

Alex is very close to making tenure. He wants to succeed w/out his strong crush on his rival derailing him.

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The “end” of the year came fast!

#WIPSnips WOTD is “end”

Alex finds out that his hated rival, who he’s also ridiculously attracted to, is the only other professor attending the national conference with him. The man’s conflicted 😐

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#Smutcember

Celeste and Alex finally confess their attraction to each other…in so many words. This is the scene that leads to a smuttier scene too hot for uncensored bsky 😋

CW: Kissing, mention of genitals in public (clothed)

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#AwesomeCharacters

Celeste is a fan of good stories, positive attention & effort. She’s generally a happy person & quite accomplished, so she smiles a lot.

Alex smiles at affirmation. He’s very attractive & equally smart. But he has insecurities that present as pretentiousness. #WIP #writesky

I hope everyone who celebrates had a lovely Christmas!

#Smutcember

Only my husband and two of my writer circle friends have read my first steamy romance novella. He thinks it’s cringe, but he thinks all romance is cringe. My writer friends like it — they enjoy romance stories, so people like them are more my target.

#AwesomeCharacters

Celeste & Alex have PhDs in poli sci & are professors at the same university, but her focus is survey research, while his area is political philosophy. This difference is the source of their rivalry, bc Alex hates math & Celeste thinks Alex is pretentious.

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#AwesomeCharacters

In my romance WIP, it’s easier for Celeste to accept comments on her intellect or character & her intellect than her appearance. When Alex says she looks “perfect,” she brushes it off as congeniality. It doesn’t help that he’s her workplace rival.

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Hi, I’m Stevie, a writer of romance stories celebrating plus-size women. I also write a lot about interracial relationships as well.

I’m already established as a litfic author under the pen name Jaye Pool @jayepool.bsky.social, but my romance releases will be under Stevie Alison. 🌶️📚💙