Shelf Love Podcast
A podcast & Substack about romance novels, and how they reflect, explore, challenge, and shape desire. Host: Andrea Martucci (she/her) #romancebks #romancereader
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Romance Novel Discourse Blogs/Newsletters/Podcasts
People and places publishing hot takes, thoughtful book reviews, essays and more about the romance novel genre. (Trying to limit this to platforms that publish longer-form takes outside of social media platforms. Message me to get added!)
@kitauthor.com
Storyteller. Body Theologist. Sacred Herd & Flock Tender EponaAuthorSolutions.com (Author Tech) SpicyEbooks.com (Erotic ParaRom) KitAuthor.com (#fantasy, #equestrian lit) FeathermaneSoul.com (#neurodivergent/#queer body theology and spiritual mentoring)
@edenawrites.bsky.social
Author specializing in Blerdy heroines & HEAs. Here to do good and make friends. My therapist thinks I'm funny. Snag my books at #indiebookstores #barnesandnoble #audible #librofm #kindleunlimited https://linktr.ee/EdenAppiahKubi #booksky #blackbooksky
@bookthingo.bsky.social
Romance book reader. Lapsed blogger and podcaster. Micro reviews: https://www.instagram.com/bookthingo Podcast: https://bookthingo.libsyn.com/
@hannahheartsthings.bsky.social
books, k&cdramas, mental health. you know, things. trying out this bsky thing.
@lovestruckbooks.bsky.social
💘Cambridge's first-of-its-kind romance bookstore! 📚 10a-9p Sun-Wed | 10a-10p Thurs-Sat ☕️ Café 7:30a-4p 🍷 Wine bar Sun-Wed 4p-9p | Thurs-Sat 4p-10p
@fpianz.bsky.social
https://federicopianzola.me I teach and do research in Computational Humanities @rug.nl ERC StG "Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models" (GOLEM) https://golemlab.eu
@manshel.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
@kimberlylemming.bsky.social
Hallmark meets bloodshed |USA Today Best Selling Fantasy Romance Author |33| she/her| Repped by @millercallihan https://linktr.ee/KimberlyLemming
@madwomanreading.bsky.social
Kelsey K Davenport 👯♀️here for the girlies, gays, and theys 🏳️🌈Bi, married to a guy 🩷💜💙 #romancereader #romancewriter #breastcancersurvivor #CatLady ✨In this house, we blame Reagan.✨
@constancegrady.bsky.social
Senior correspondent at Vox. Culture, books, celebrity, and gender. Miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other.
@thatlaurajmayo.bsky.social
Fantasy Author. How to Summon a Fairy Godmother OUT NOW! from Orbit Works! Rep: Weaver Literary Agency https://linktr.ee/thatlaurajmayo
@rdotspoon.bsky.social
Best-selling Award-Winning Romance Author. New releases: Adult: A MAN FOR MRS. CLAUS 🎄 / YA: HER GOOD SIDE 🥪💕🛹 OUT NOW! rep: Holly Root/Root Literary MAY SALE BUNDLE! https://payhip.com/BacklistBundles
@celestinemartin.bsky.social
*Pen Name* Writer of Romance. She/Her. Whimsigoth in Training *Tweeting W/O Glasses* Repped by @lauren_bieker Former @jellybeanrae on x-tweeter Order Link: http://bit.ly/3IbQxR0
@shadesnpages.bsky.social
📍OKC Book Fanatic|Romance DIVA Lipstick Addict 🇧🇸♏️ Shadesnpages@gmail.com
@jaeauthor.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Author of sapphic romance | Queer | She/her | Avid reader | Ice cream & fountain pen aficionado. | Website: https://jae-fiction.com | Newsletter: https://jae-fiction.com/newsletter/
@julieannelong.bsky.social
Internationally bestselling author of Pennyroyal Green and Palace of Rogues series of historical romances and the Hellcat Canyon series of contemporaries. Here for books, nature, science, animals, music, art and friends.
@grrlintersect.bsky.social
She/her fat black queer, disabled femme, leftist in my 30s, sometimes publicly slutty, sometimes publicly depressed. I talk about food and books a lot and I try to be kind.
@jkentauthor.bsky.social
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of romantic comedy with an edge. Former history and government professor and higher education runaway. I have more fun making up stories than fighting deans. Immunocompromised mom to medically complex kids.
@scribblingsandy.bsky.social
Historical romance author with a PhD, a piano, & a very large library. Expert on dragons & PUNCH. Writes stories with happy endings and loves her caravan Miss Hetty. 🌈 She / her. #Romancelandia #HistoricalRomance
@amivireads.bsky.social
26, lesbian who talks mostly about sapphic books or bts and on my fitness journey 💜 60k on tiktok| email for business inquiries amivireads@gmail.com https://beacons.ai/amivireads
@courtneymilan.com
She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm. This biography should not be taken as a complete description. courtneymilan.com
@measuredandslow.bsky.social
I make art, try to raise my kids to be Good Humans, and yell about disability. Maker of Santa Dinos and whatever else I feel like. She/they #art #knitting #3Dprinting 🧶 https://linktr.ee/measuredandslow
@shivaniswriting.bsky.social
Artist, writer and librarian. Proud purveyor of joy and glitter with The Peculiarity Shop at https://www.peculiarityshop.com/shivani-s-corner . Support me or see some progress pics of art on https://ko-fi.com/shivaniseth
@jackielaubooks.bsky.social
Romance reader/writer. Latest release: Time Loops & Meet Cutes. She/her. jackielaubooks.com
@barelytolerable.bsky.social
Fan of Jane Austen & Gaskell’s North & South. ✨ fanfic writer ✨ English M.A. ✨ scarnash✨ https://linktr.ee/barelytolerable
@ellatholmes.bsky.social
Writer✨ Essayist. Disability advocate. Thought-haver. Covid competent. Best of The Net Nominee 🤯 Wizard. Substack @ ellahasthoughts 💖 https://linktr.ee/ellatholmes
@shereadhesaid.bsky.social
A book nerd and a theater geek living their HEA amidst the flurry and chaos of all the usual nonsense. We’re here for the romance. (she/her & he/him)
@melonreads.bsky.social
Romance reader, reviews @ Smexybooks.com, leaning enthusiast, these mashed potatoes are so creamy, she/her
@eliotedits.bsky.social
Editor, educator, word nerd with a specialty in inclusive language and storytelling and a big love for romance fiction. (Maybe I can help you with your writing! https://www.eliotwesteditorial.com/) Joy matters too 💖🌈
@drclaireocall.bsky.social
Writer. Literary & cultural historian. Expert: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters. 📖EMILY BRONTË REAPPRAISED 👩🏼💻Editor @brontestudies ✨🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
@emilybrand.bsky.social
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
@pamplemoussepam.bsky.social
Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni. I research alcohol in 19th C. Co-dir. Drinking Studies Network; Co-I on NCN-funded women & alcohol project (http://www.womenandalcohol.net) https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
@k8lister.bsky.social
Blonde Bombsite. Sex Historian. Author of A Curious History of Sex & Harlot, Whores, & Hackabouts. Host of Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. Consider this your fair dos warning.
@smartbitches.bsky.social
I'm Sarah from Smart Bitches, and I like Trashy Books | Daily SBTB email: http://bit.ly/SBTB-feed | Reviews, Cover Snark, & Recs: http://sb-tb.com |
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
@vulgarhistory.bsky.social
Feminist women’s history comedy podcast hosted by Ann Foster
@joanpassey.bsky.social
BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | English Lecturer | UCU Rep | Haunted Shores Network | Victorian environments, coasts & seascapes 🌊 | Queer ecologies 🍄 | Gothic 👻 | she/they 🏳️🌈 https://joanpassey.co.uk/
@joanneknowlesuk.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, Communication @LJMU. Research interests in culture, media & literary studies #C19 to now. My views, RT ≠ endorsement.
@sexhistorian.bsky.social
Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions. Researching the health history of fuel poverty in North East England @ Northumbria University They/them
@tanyaserisier.bsky.social
Feminist academic working on sexual politics. Current project on public survivors. Member and activist Birkbeck UCU. Also cross stitches.
@jennifervevans.bsky.social
historian | digital curator | Humboldtian | professor | currently writing Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution for Stanford Univ Press/Redwood Press latest book: Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (Duke UP, 2023)
@erinacean.bsky.social
Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist @erinacean @erinacean@h-net.social www.lesleyahall.net https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
@helloginnybatty.bsky.social
Archivist with a love for #histmed, surgical, sexual health, and #histsex collections; if it's in a jar I'll probably love it. She/her. Aprendiendo español.
@whoresofyore.bsky.social
Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
@victorianmasc.bsky.social
James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th