Women in Translation Romance Reads

I’m a little late to Women in Translation Month, but that’s okay since we should be reading these year round!

Also, I’m participating in the Back Indie Media Drive this September. There’s so many worthy publications who need your support. Find your next favorite read now.

Women in Translation Romance Recommendations

Like Water for Chocolate

by Laura Esquivel

A soap opera romance and Mexican cookbook mixed with magical realism. The story follows the youngest daughter, Tita, who must cook in the kitchen of her family’s ranch and is forbidden from marrying since she must take care of her mother.

Strange Weather in Tokyo

by author Hiromi Kawakami and translator Allison Markin Powell

Tsukiko lives alone and is lonely when she meets her former high school teacher in a bar. Their relationship develops from awkward acknowledgement into love.

Half a Lifelong Romance

by author Eileen Chang and translator Karen S. Kingsbury

In Shanghai, Shen Shijun has fallen in love with his colleague Gu Manzhen. But when societal circumstances force the young lovers apart, they hold out hope of finding each other again.

Bad Girls

by author Camila Villada and translator Kit Maude

A group of trans sex workers make their rounds one night when they find an abandoned baby to adopt. This coming-of-age book traces life, sexuality, and love in the 90s.

Delicates

by author Wendy Guerra and translator Nancy Naomi Carlson

This isn’t a romance, but I think you’ll like this one. Delicates is a collection of poems by Cuban writer Wendy Guerra as she journeys through love and confronts political systems that don’t celebrate artistic freedom.

Are you clinging to summer flings or craving fall romance?

💌 Romancelandia News

The AI industry is facing a huge copyright class action suit. Anthropic argues that it will “financially ruin” the entire AI industry. There are “seven million potential claimants whose works span a century of publishing history.” Each fine could potentially be $150,000 and a whole lot of romance authors are affected as their work was used to train AI.
Sexual assault at dark romance convention Sinners & Stardust. Author HD Carlton reported on Instagram that cosplayer Animus was reportedly groped by women numberous times and had an AirTag placed on or near their person. One attendee wore a strap-on dildo and flashed people with it. Sinners & Stardust has responded with plans for security, a secured area for authors and other vendors, and smaller events in the future.
The most common cause of stroke in women under 40 is choking during sex. “There’s no safe way to do it, no safe quantity of blood or oxygen you can cut off from her brain for fun.” Researchers note that this happens overwhelmingly to women by men.
The Associated Press is ending its weekly book reviews. This is another death blow to book criticism.
Fewer Americans are reading for pleasure. The number of Americans reading for fun has fallen by 40%, especially for people with lower incomes and education levels, rural people, and Black Americans.
Fantasy con Once Upon a Time had various problems, ranging from staff arriving to not have hotel rooms, a cancelled cosplay competition
Rebel Romance Bookstore is raising money to become a mobile bookstore in Raleigh, North Carolina
antasn. Kate Clayborn writes a romance novel set in Paris. Kennedy Ryan is looking for Black romance novels to adapt. Tyler Hoechlin and Nina Dobrev to star in It Happened One Summer. Bolu Babalola shares her favorite second chance romances.
Tor Bramble UK needs Black romantasy, dark fantasy, and dark romance, cozy fantasy, Why Choose? written by Black authors and fantasy steeped in Latine/Hispanic mythology and history and contemporary romance by Latine/Hispanic authors

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Romancelandia Jobs

GCP Balance needs an editorial assistant for nonfiction books

OwlCrate (worldwide) needs a remote graphic designer ($60,000)

OwlCrate (worldwide) needs a remote book designer ($70,000)

Book of the Month (New York) needs a full-time coordinator of creative strategy

Hachette UK (London) needs a full-time editorial assistant

Serpent and Sword needs a cover designer for contemporary covers

Ava Jay needs a romance novel editor

Barnes & Noble (Atlanta, GA) needs a part-time bookseller

OwlCrate (North America) needs a remote full-time partnerships coordinator ($55,000)

OwlCrate (worldwide) needs a full-time remote product development assistant ($55,000)

Wave Literary needs a remote literary agent

Faber (UK) needs a fiction editor

Amy McLauren needs three illustrations for a romantic thriller

Romance Releases

Contemporary
Sweet Heat by Bolu Babalola	The Good Girl Effect by Sara Cate	Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun
Learning Curves by Rachel Lacey	Pucking Strong by Emily Rath	Lucky Shot by Rebecca Jenshak
A Love Most Brutal by Kath Richards	Love Walked In by Sarah Chamberlain

Historical
Dukes All Night Long anthology	The One With the Wayward Duke by Eliana Piers	Vices, Villains, and the Viscount by Karla Kratovil
Gabriela and His Grace by Liana De la Rosa	The Gilded Heiress by Joanna Shupe

Fantasy
Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross	By the Horns by Ruby Dixon	Crazy Spooky Love by Josie Silver
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch	Love’s a Witch by Tricia O’Malley	A Storm in Every Heart by Kate King
Deadly Storms by Christine Feehan	Head Witch in Charge by Avery Flynn	Graveyard Girls by Kat Blackthorne