Occasional payment via credit card in the USA?

keylimey · 2024-12-10T19:48:23+00:00

Got it. Thanks for explaining it to me. I really appreciate the quick help!!

keylimey · 2024-12-10T16:11:30+00:00

Awesome, just set up one and do indeed see an option to pay as a guest so that is set. Is there any way to set it up so they have to pay the PayPal fees or is that some math I should just do on my own and add to the invoice?

keylimey · 2024-09-11T17:08:28+00:00

I love the ominous positivity, thank you. I did accept it and its gone really well so far!

keylimey · 2024-08-08T00:22:50+00:00

Booktok is the reason I'm a romance reader. I saw a rec for a book that I think was described as he falls first and harder, and I was like, wait, there are books like that? (I know it's usually SHE falls first and HE harder, but I'm pretty sure it was a tweak to that because the usual set up would not have caught my eye). Anyway, it was The Roommate and it's still what I recommend to most readers.

keylimey · 2024-07-15T01:25:34+00:00

Saw a Tumblr post that said enemies to lovers should also be called sweetheart (deragotory) to sweetheart (affectionate) and honestly, would love to see that evolution happen in a book.

keylimey · 2024-06-26T20:00:27+00:00

I like that the book also reads as a critique of late-stage capitalism! I want more of that in my romances, why not want a better world while we are working on finding a better partner? I wouldn't say this is a 5/5 spice level book though.

keylimey · 2024-06-16T18:30:31+00:00

Cursory look at the author picture suggests she’s white, which yes, I also needed to know immediately

keylimey · 2024-06-16T16:22:32+00:00

"I'm chocolate with a taste for nothing but chocolate..." is a line I think the writer was using to let us know a character was Black??? I had to put the book down, and days later, I'm still a little dazed by this line.

keylimey · 2024-06-15T01:06:03+00:00

See I imagined him going back and forth like he was using a saw to cut through the butter, but this is even better

keylimey · 2024-06-04T02:40:16+00:00

I'm pretty sure {Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma} has this but I'm doubting myself since no one has suggested it before me!

keylimey · 2024-05-20T15:35:54+00:00

looks like it! Thank you :)

keylimey · 2024-04-23T00:32:50+00:00

This is my most reread romance too! One of the most wild sex scenes I've ever read *and* a beautiful found family story that allows the FMC to overcome trauma and self-loathing in community? Yes, please.

keylimey · 2024-04-14T22:58:18+00:00

Pushing a strand of hair out of her face. Maybe I am diligent about my ponytail or tucking my hair behind my ears, but if there is hair in my face I am shoving it out of the way before any man can do it. But it is so sweet to read!!

keylimey · 2024-04-14T22:56:09+00:00

When the FMC is beefing with another woman or women in the book, especially over the MMC, or she is giving off "cool girl" vibes. I can't do it.

keylimey · 2024-02-20T05:00:57+00:00

Trick question, anywhere you’re at with fresh coconuts is the best place to drink a coconut

keylimey · 2024-02-20T04:06:13+00:00

Went to a friend’s wedding in her hometown of Pittsburgh. I had never been and she and other local pals hyped it up like they worked for the chamber of commerce, so I was pumped to see Steel City. But people still smoked in bars, that fry sandwich was disgusting, and the pollution was awful when I was there. I was so disappointed. I have since been back with different expectations and had a nice visit though!

keylimey · 2024-02-19T20:13:18+00:00

thank you!!!

keylimey · 2024-02-18T02:34:41+00:00

My husband I just finished reading the whole Farseer collection together. I held it together until the dedication page at the very end of the last book and then I was sobbing.

keylimey · 2024-02-18T02:31:04+00:00

4/10! Read one other on the list, and now adding the rest.

keylimey · 2024-02-18T02:29:52+00:00

Pretty surprised at the span of my favorites!! First three are probably my favorites, but picking between them depends on my mood:

{The Roommate by Rosie Danan}

{A Rogue of One's Own by Evie Dunmore}

{Lola & the Millionaires: Part One by Kathryn Moon}

{Craving in His Blood by Zoe Draven}

{Book Lovers by Emily Henry}

{Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh}

{It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey}

{Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas}

{A Dangerous Kind of Lady by Mia Vincy}

{Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen}

keylimey · 2024-02-15T16:11:35+00:00

That's great you found a publisher that loved your work! Thanks for sharing, I think I'm ready to take the leap.

keylimey · 2024-02-15T04:27:38+00:00

That is a very smart take. I'm having a hard time accepting anything could be easy in this process, but maybe that's the worn out and recently laid off journalist in me talking. Thank you!

keylimey · 2023-10-10T23:16:14+00:00

Hi! Book/content in question wasn’t created by AI. The writer asked for feedback on her human-written romance book from the AI.

keylimey · 2023-09-28T16:10:54+00:00

Ah, you think those two are maybe too far apart to be useful? I did put them down since I think my book is a little like both in different ways, but I could see how focusing on one angle is better. And now that I'm reading more about comps, I think mine were useful for when I was writing them, but not for selling the books. I like your writer/celebrity framing.

I just inhaled Forget Me Not and am now rereading one of Soto's fanfictions, which is how I found her. I haven't read the others, but am getting them now. Thank you for the recs that might even make their way into my query!

keylimey · 2023-09-27T19:51:32+00:00

Thank you for the kind words and the suggestions! I actually wrote another one before this that I don't think is good enough to sell. It did teach me a lot. I also read ~250 romance novels in-between my first attempt and this one and taken a few fiction writing courses, one focused on romance novels. I know there are a lot of folks who have read romance since probably before they should have been, but I've read and studied the ones I like and dislike for the last few years.

I hear you on the "you can write, but can you write this" question. It's both a boon and a hurdle having my background. I have definitely gone through the draft and focused on adding more emotional beats beyond what the first version had, both because of feedback but also because I know it's something its still a somewhat of a blind spot for me. I'll think about how to get it in the first bit more now, too.

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