Via @tuphlos on twitter:
"My hometown library is looking for a director and the deadline is tomorrow! I posted this earlier, but here it is again. They have a brand new building and if you're looking for a small(ish) town setting, this might be your jam"
Our very own Robin Bradford @tuphlos in conversation with Professional Book Nerds Podcast:
"Emma is joined by librarian, Robin Bradford, to chat about her book, The Reader's Advisory Guide to Romance. They also chat all things Romancelandia, how to talk about spice levels, the cyclical nature of romance trends, libraries, and a bunch of recommendations! "
@romancelandia
Found via @tuphlos on twitter, this piece has some blood pressure-raising bits; the most important is the assumption that changing the covers of genre romances of different heat levels/sexual content, changes the actual content.
"oh, these books that are no longer coded erotic romance are actually good stories/writing/characters, but I couldn't have known unless they had acceptable covers" is a thing said there.
Also, they're clearly cherry-picking the more modern covers. The number of covers shown goes way down and they're sticking to a very few, specific, sub-genres.
whenever people talk about having "no politics or religion" in their "entertainment", I think of how fucking intellectually lazy they have to be not to come up with a better fig leaf for they complicity.
These people basically say, "if you read these and like them, you deserve violence, so we'll protect your from yourself y controlling your every fucking breath"
Found this virtual panel at 2022 #LasVegasBookFestival via @tuphlos; very enjoyable, but especially caught on what @OliviaWrites has to say about her Spoiler Alert, and how she had so much to say in the book she thought would be "her one and only chance" to be in bookstores around the world.