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Hi there. It’s been a few weeks since we’ve had a Bookchat so I thought I’d throw one together. I’m re-reading Sarah MacLean’s books ahead of the 3rd Hell’s Belles book coming out in a couple of weeks. I read them out of order the first time, this time I’ll read them in order. The Belles are women in 1800s London who…..fix things. Fun, happy feminist historical romance. I find in recent years that I must have a happy ending.
Things I’ve seen happening in the book world recently: a non-romance author wanted to get that sweet romance reader money so she tried to re-define Romance to say it doesn’t have to end with a happy ending. Romancelandia was not having any. She was roundly mocked and I hope, has settled for having her book published under “general fiction”.
And some idiot scraped a bunch of authors of all genres to feed his AI project. Among them were Terry Pratchett (I’m sure his estate was not at all amused), Stephen King, and my favorites Courtney Milan and Kit Rocha. But they sat back and let the Queen, Nora Roberts explain things to him. His site was taken down. If he’s not an idiot, he won’t try anything like this again, but I don’t credit techbros with an overabundance of brains. The quotes from La Nora in this tweet…..I really hope her lawyers have already served him. If hers haven’t, I’m sure Mr. King’s people will.
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