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Informed Consent

The details… Title: Informed Consent Author: Rachel Spangler Publisher: Brisk Press Editor: Lynda Sandoval Publication date: July 2, 2024 ISBN-13: 979-8988411338 Available formats: ebook, paperback Print Length: 360 pages Genre: romance Themes: women loving women, sapphic romance, relationships, friendships, professionalism, counseling, therapy, mental health, healthy relationships,…

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Hey readers, I've got eBooks ready to go out to reviewers, and I've got tons of recs from TikTok and Insta , but honestly, I like Tumblr best, so I'd like to share some love here. too. Who are your favorite book folks on Tumblr? Where do you go for book recs and reviews on this platform?

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Patreon Peeps at my top tier automatically get every one of my new releases delivered to their inboxes weeks before the wide release, and all my patrons, even the $2 ones have a chance to buy the ebooks at a 10% discounts ahead of the general public. Today would be a great day to join us!

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It’s cover reveal day!

Here’s how this one went down-

Me: We’re looking at sapphic, age gap, work place, here. I want something to evoke warm, elegant, professional, and romantic vibes.

Cover Artist: Got it.

Me: Also, you know I’m a leg guy, right?

Cover Artist: Hold my beer.

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Book Review: Quiver by Rachel Spangler

My angst loving friends, I have the book for you. Quiver is a second chance, celebrity, small town, sports and ice queen romance all rolled into one beautifully healing love story.

Kylie Manchester’s once blossoming acting career is waning. In an attempt to save a big audition she tells the director about her amazing skills as a mounted archer… too bad she isn’t one. But she does know one, a champion, only getting the ex-love of her life to agree to help her will be only slightly less painful than actually working with her everyday.

The tension between Kye and Fletcher flares like a wildfire from the start. Their borderline obsession with their work is both what broke them apart, and kept them moving forward for the last 12 years. Fletcher agrees to help Kylie out of a need to give her what she needs to leave as quickly as possible.

The very slow coming together is painful and beautiful, you will want to yell at them and cry for them more than once. I would consider both of the main characters ice queens to different degrees, and their well-earned walls are thick. Without their connection to each other both women suffered in their personal lives never truly able to move on, but unwilling to move backwards.

The combat sport of mounted archery plays a major role in the book and is honestly just so cool. Every scene was descriptive and made me feel like I was there, in the barn, watching the horses and arrows fly by.

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All of this.

it genuinely makes me sad that “happy wife, happy life” is a phrase that means “I make my wife happy because if I don’t she’ll be annoying and fuck up my day” when it should mean “I keep my wife happy because seeing her smile genuinely makes my heart light up with mirth, I love hearing her joyful laugh, I love making her happy”

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I feel like some people need to relearn Genre Expectations... "Man, this tragedy sucks!!! Why didn't they just do XYZ, then everything could have ended happily!!" well, then it wouldn't be a tragedy, would it. "Man, this lighthearted teen romcom is terrible, it's so sappy and unrealistic!!" Well, yeah. If it had been gritty and dark, it wouldn't have been a lighthearted romcom, would it. Is the writing actually bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot

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if you are a lesbian who used to identify as bisexual...

if you are a bisexual woman who used to identify as a lesbian...

i am so proud of you, and even more happy for you that you have discovered something new about yourself.

there is no shame in going from one label to another if you find the new one reflects you better, and you are not betraying anyone for doing so. changing labels does not make you any less worthy of love.

you are not a stereotype. you are human, a human who is constantly evolving and always on the journey of self discovery. ignore anyone who says otherwise. you owe them nothing. your sexuality is your own.

this is a beautiful next step. i am endlessly proud of you for getting to this point, and i wish you all the luck and magic as you go on forward 💕💐

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Me over here rereading my own book...this seems legit

My imaginary world has always been the only true world for me

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there should be more lesbians

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Finally drew my fave sexy Olympic medalists! ⛷🏂🏻🥇🥇

Edge of Glory (by @writerrachelspangler) was the first lesbian romance novel I ever read (on recommendation from @bossbeth), and how I realized that there are some explicit books out there that are right for me. 😊

Femslash February 4 of probably not 50

More Femslash February More WLW Book Fanart

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Love this fan art so much! This is very much the level of adorable I picture for Corey and Elise!

Finally drew my fave sexy Olympic medalists! ⛷🏂🏻🥇🥇

Edge of Glory (by @writerrachelspangler) was the first lesbian romance novel I ever read (on recommendation from @bossbeth), and how I realized that there are some explicit books out there that are right for me. 😊

Femslash February 4 of probably not 50

More Femslash February More WLW Book Fanart

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I am dead. I am gay and dead. I am a bottom, a gay, and dead.

What business does she have to be this swaggeringly hot!! How dare she?!?! Also I am deceased. 😵😵😵

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I am so geeked out about my first ever fan art! This drawing of Sophia and Vic comes from the multitalented Anna Burke who drew it after reading Modern English! Y'all don't even know what something like this means to an author.

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The long awaited book release

So, I wrote a book. I mean it’s my 18th book, so like the book writing itself isn’t a surprise, it’s sort of my job, but the fact that I got this particular book written and published is a big deal.  

For the like 4 of you who actually follow this haphazard Tumblr, you know that I started my account because I’d been in a massive writing funk since my friend Diane Gaidry died. I hadn’t felt even remotely cohesive in my creativity for almost a year. I’d already abandoned two other projects in that time. And when I found Tumblr I wasn’t trying to do my job at all. I was mostly laying on my couch, grief stricken and watching too much Gentleman Jack. It was really that show and the fandom surrounding it that made me want to start writing again.  

If you read my early posts here they’re filled with both trepidation and hope, and totally interspersed with GJ fandom reblogs, along with the occasional gushing about other things that got in the way of being a functioning professional (I’m looking at you gender dysphoria and conservative family members).

This was not the novel writing process I’d ever known or would recommend to an aspiring author. It went against everything I’d ever learned about how to be successful in my field. Tumblr is not well organized, does not facilitate strong focus, it doesn’t conform to high ideas of craft or form. It’s not filled with serious topics to hone the mind or sharpen creative stamina, (at least not the way I follow it). Most of all it draws more heavily on the work of others than anyone who fears copy right lawsuits should ever be comfortable with. For me Tumble was pure fandom, the exact thing people warned would lead to the watering down of my voice and derivative story telling. And yet, the voices I found here were also so unapologetically enthusiastic I dove right in, not in spite of all those things, but because of them! The content I used as a crutch was passionate, unrepentantly whimsical, and wildly joyous in ways I desperately longed to be again. And I’ll be damned if it didn’t work

At first I would write like two paragraphs of my own work then, totally exhausted and emotionally spent, I’d zip over here to emote and/or distract myself for the rest of the day. Many of my colleagues posted about their own impressive progress, and shook their heads at me. But just like learning to ride a bike with training wheels I got less wobbly as I went. I grew more confident, and a picked up speed. Soon queer Tumblr became less of a distraction and more of a reward for a job well done. Then it became a way to unwind after a full day of writing. I leaned on the mental/emotion supports less and less, until one day I realized the training wheels had fallen off and the writing had actually become it’s own inherent support system. 

From there I took off, and the book took off, too. Modern English not only finished strong on the first draft stage, it flew threw edits, and copy edits, and early reviewers. Everyone who got their hands on it talked about how it was just “one of those special books.” The kind that reads like an effortless gift from the muse.  

I still don’t know if I should laugh or cry when they stay that.

Nothing about this was easy. Nothing about it was normal. This was a mess of absurdity, heart wrenching, teeth gnashing, and clinging to random lesbian period romance memes with all of my fingernails. 

It wasn’t even until recent weeks that I could loosen my white knuckled grip and breathe deeply enough to look in the rearview mirror at how far I’ve come. Reading my early posts now is humbling. I couldn’t see the path forward from there, which I suppose makes sense. I was so lost, but after I found my way again I forgot to bring you all forward with me.

I’m sorry for that. Once I started writing on the book in earnest I stopped writing here.  And I’m not sure anyone particularly cares, but it didn’t seem right to just ghost Tumblr.  Y’all deserve better.  At least a few of you took me at my worst, so you deserve to see me at my best.

So here you go. Here’s the full circle moment. The culmination of the crying, and crazy random fandom, and deep dives into obsession, and therapy style blogs, and my complete submersion into the queer content sections, and my trying to wrestle all of that into something that meant something, something I could make sense of, and something I could give back to the community that gave so damn much to me.

Modern English, my 18th full-length, women loving women romance novel is now available wherever great queer romances are sold.  

The reviews are rolling in, and every one who reads it assure me no one would ever know what I went through while writing. 

But I know, and you all know too.  

So thank you. 

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-English-Rachel-Spangler-ebook/dp/B08NWF3RC7/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Rachel+Spangler+Modern+English&qid=1613866103&sr=8-1

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Lainey Molnar

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Appreciation post for Gemma Whelan always being involved in that gay shit

Thank you 🙏