I'm reading a young adult fantasy/romantasy book, written by a Polish author (in Polish) - Mags Green "Słoneczny Gon" - and the only thing I can think of now, halfway in the story, is that If she was an American or British author, she would already have hundreds of thousand of fans. Her book would most likely be signed with "New York times bestseller".

She just hits so right with the current book market targeted at young women (Sarah J Maas, Leigh Bardugo, Rebecca Yarros, Holly Black). The only thing stopping her, is the fact that she doesn't write in English. I honestly hope that this book gets translated, and her publishing house won't sleep on it.

Authors and how they use their wealth

John Green: Uses his wealth to help fight tuberculosis

Rick Rhodian: Set up a publishing arm for Black, Asian, Hispanic and Indigenous authors

Andrea White: Campaigns for education and reading.

Many other authors have highlighted injustice.

Suzanne Collins: Disappeared into the woods

Then you have JK Rowling who is using her wealth to fund hate.

If I ever become a successful author, I would use my wealth to fight against injustice or pull a Suzanne Collins and disappear, only going out in public to promote a new book.

finished "i'm glad my mom died" slightly concerned with my relationship to food the past few years

May I have your attention please? 💕

So not many people on here might know this, but I’m working on a sports romance book, which will hopefully be my debut novel if everything goes well.

The book will be about a French rugby player and the team’s physical therapist who’s from Norway. It’ll have language barriers with miss communications, he’s a sunshine off the field but on it he’s the grump. She’s seen as grumpy but might actually be a sunshine (if people get to know her).

What I would love to know though is, if you’d pick the book up, what other kind of tropes would you love to see? Are there prompts you think would fit in the story?

I’m very early on in planning and working it all out so any little insight from you guys as readers and writers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance my loves,

- Karen 💕

I received a package with Lucie Ebrey (from lucieebrey.tumblr.com and other places online)'s latest small zine and i wanted to make a compilation of small zine doodles i got from her over the years im love each & everyone of them

i finished the book i was reading… i feel

I appear to be building a lil side career in public speaking and event hosting, so never let it be said that a gift for Small Talk and Chit Chat doesn’t pay off.

I’m going to need two to five business days and a firm handshake with Erin Morgenstern.

"I hate how they have the power to kill my future-- kill me. They treat my black skin like a gun or a grenade or a knife that's dangerous and lethal. When, really, it's them. The guys at the top, powering everything."

x. "Ace of Spades", Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

My god, it's been *checks notes; squints* almost two decades since I wrote Anastasia Bransfield. Given that I was little more than a wee bab at the time, I should hope my writing has improved. And hopefully this time, I can do her the justice she deserves.

I have this habit of poring over a book or a manga series right after a really stressful-with-daily-overtimes week at work instead of, idk, sleeping the entire weekend or going out. anyway, I read Ali Hazelwood's Love on the Brain yesterday right after clocking out and it was laugh out loud fantastic but now all I wanna do is go through Marie Curie's Wikipedia entry, watch documentaries and maybe buy a book or two about her.

i finished severance, it was eerily relatable since the pandemic and also because of some of my personal experiences……. it was also SO much to digest & so heavy while simultaneously being fast paced and gripping. its a commentary on consumerism and on capitalism on work on race on immigration on the human condition……… amazing.

OMG YOU FINISHED ALREADY its so so so so goodddgfhbggfhfjfhfgdgdfd GOD. you UNDERSTAND. can you believe that was ling ma's debut novel

Has anyone done anything with “The Starks are the Bridgertons of Westeros” concept? A noble family with a huge number of kids and all. I feel like there’s some comedic potential here 

Imagine Sofie having a bad day—nothing happened, she just woke up in a down mood.

But Sebástian takes this as his cue to be super goofy, just trying to make her smile/laugh.

He pulls faces and pranks on the teammates until she finally breaks and laughs.

My sunshine boy is already the goofiest little nugget out there! But yes, he would definitely do anything in his power to make Sofie crack a smile, before and after they start dating.

some of the plagiarism that happens in the lit fic/publishing world would make fandom lose its mind I think……

i really don’t want to be the person that keeps defending the reylo fanfic turned published author, but like, the REASONS i see people hating on her/her books are ALWAYS fucking dumb. “it’s fanfiction” who cares. “it’s REYLO fanfiction” it’s not reylo anymore - so who cares. you can dislike it on principle, but like, it’s not a valid reason to “cancel” the author. the fact that it’s reylo fanfiction doesn’t automatically make it a bad book. “the covers are ugly” covers have literally had this illustrated style since the early 2000s i don’t know why people think they’re a new thing. “it’s just a bunch of tropes” so is every single romance novel. i can tell you don’t fucking read. there is SOME legitimacy to this claim because some books ARE a bunch of tropes mashed together and then it doesn’t form a good story. but if your entire argument is that the book HAS tropes, then you’re a fucking idiot.