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This administration is more than halfway through Project 2025. The Trump administration has dismantled much of NEA funding, gutted the Institute of Museum and Library Services and removed funding for PBS and NPR. Meanwhile, censorship is on the rise everywhere, librarians are under attack, romance novels are under fire, and people are being dragged out of their homes.
Reading is political and as readers we have a responsibility to stay informed and do what we can to make our communities better.
So, how do you fight book banning where you are?
Vote in every election, especially local and school board elections.
Lock into your community. How are local bookstores doing? What’s going on at your schools? Do the kids in your life have access to books? What can you do to be in service to your community?
Support journalists. There’s fewer opportunities to get paid to write about entertainment, and journalists need your support more than ever. If you want to make sure journalists are reporting on the people who are in power in your town, be a paid subscriber to your local newspaper. Pay independent journalists. By the way, when you buy a cup of coffee or click an ad in this newsletter, I set the money aside to hire freelance reporters in the future.
Read banned books!
Romance Recommendations
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu walks into a lesbian bar in 1954 where she feels anything is possible. But it isn’t with deportation looming and a lack of safety for girls falling in love.
Storm and Fury
Trinity can communicate with ghosts and spirits. While she’s hiding in a compound protected by shape shifters, she meets Zayne and starts working with him to save her family and the world.
Breathless
Claudine had the perfect summer planned, but gets stuck on a remote island with her mom. She meets Jeremiah and decides that he’s the perfect choice for her first time.
Red, White, and Royal Blue
If you have not yet discovered the joy of Casey McQuiston’s books, start here. Politics, family, and royalty collide when two millennials fall in love.
I Never
A cute high school love story that explores teen sex and finding your first love.
💌 Romancelandia News
This romance anthology raised over a million dollars. The After the End collection shows how romance authors can work together and successfully fund a project.
Romance author Dame Jilly Cooper died. Cooper wrote many romances through the 1980s, including The Rutshire Chronicles.
Hire the right kind of editor for your book. Lakeisha walks us through the different types of editing.
Yahoo’s creating a new quarterly book recommendation series and needs pitches from book publicists.
Romancelandia Jobs
Paige A. Cook needs an illustrator who can draw animals and flora
Stacey Willis needs bookish artists for an urban fantasy
Parker A. Garner needs an editor for a dark fantasy romance
Samantha Moran needs character artists for SFW and NSFW art
Liesl West needs an author personal assistant for bookish video content
The Book Prose needs 2-3 artists for cover art
Free Romances
Strength Check by Katherine McIntyre
One Pucking Love by Ellie Wade
Book Store Witch by Ariana Jade
The Vampire’s Club by X. Aratare
Killer Heart by Rhys Lawless
Keep Vegas by Kelly Kay
Clumsy in Love by Jamie Arras
Her Alien Neighbor by Ivy Knox
Deals & Dalliances by Anne Willoughby
The Sunshine Potluck Society by Lilly Mirren
Sixty Five Hours by N.R. Walker
Blood and Champagne by Marian Black
Sweet as Puck by Ann Grech
Indecent by Gwin Savage
Vodka and Chocolate Drops by Jean Oram
Guarding Teagan by Kaylea Cross
Flight of the Monarchs by M.H. Reardon
Witches of Half Moon Bay by Heather Hildenbrand
Winters Heat by Cristin Harber
Saved by the Single Dad by Whitley Cox
The WRONG Brother by Alexis Winter
My Highland Warrior by Miriam Minger
The Star by Beth Bolden
Bad Blood by Alexandra Keillor
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