Your weekly snapshot of what romance readers can’t put down!

Couldn't get enough of the grumpy sunshine goodness of Yes, Chef by Grace Reilly? Discover the best books like Yes, Chef in this book list.

Circe Circe by Madeline Miller is $1.99! This is a big bestseller and I love hearing the convos over reader favorites: Song of Ac...

This HaBO is from Sinéad, who is looking for this romance: Can you help me find the name of a book please? It is a Mills and Boon or Harlequin written in the late 1980s or early 1990s. I think it was set in Canada or North America. The hero was an ar...

The other day, I was relaxing after dinner and streaming some episodes of The Office. This was one of my favorite shows when it first aired and a lot of the humor still holds up, even now over two decades later. As I watched “Office Olympics” (Season...

A+ Content lets you add rich graphics, formatted text, and comparison tables to your book’s Amazon product page, going well beyond the standard description box. It’s free for all KDP authors, and it can transform a plain product page into something t...

Welcome back! It’s a super brief week for us when it comes to new releases, though next week is looking pretty beefy. We have a fantasy romance, contemporary romance, and sci-fi romance. Which new releases are on your radar? Let us know in the commen...

Fear is much more than an emotion—it is one of the biggest influencers of human behavior. Whenever we encounter a situation with unknowns, fear kicks in. Even if we do not yet know what is triggering our unease, our senses heighten, our blood pressur...

Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube About the Episode: Is the indie author market actually as tough as the forums make it sound? Written Word Media surveyed nearly 600 authors at the midpoint of 2026, and the data tells a more nuan...

Cinder House RECOMMENDED: Cinder House by Freya Marske is $2.99! Carrie reviewed this and gave it a B+: Cinder House is such a cle...

Hello ,Before you read today's installment of the Romance Your Launch program, please hit reply and let me know how close you are to publishing your romance novel. Are you in the imagining stage, drafting stage, editing stage, or preparing to launch...

Hello ,Bet you didn't notice (until perhaps last week), but I spent the last 8 weeks helping my mom pack up her life of 80+ years and move from Quebec to British Columbia. Funny thing is that I have very distinct memory from 30+ years ago of saying (...

Hello !I'm trying out something new—sharing advanced reader copies (ARCs) of books written by members of Author Ever After.Up first is Kit Sutherland's debut release, Eternal Knights. This book features:Ancient magical beings in the modern human worl...

Hello ,Romance book cover design guide for self-published authorsYou probably don’t want to hear this, but your feelings about what looks good on a book cover are almost beside the point. That’s not a criticism of your taste. It’s just how genre fict...

Hello ,ISBNs for elf-published authors: what you need to knowBefore you upload a single file to Amazon KDP or IngramSpark (my personal publishing nemesis, more on that another day), you need to make one decision that affects every version of your boo...