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📚 Weekend Small Press & Indie Book Review #7: Bull Rider’s Baby Surprise by Sinclair Jayne
Welcome back to another Weekend Small Press & Indie Book Review! This weekend’s pick is a cowboy romance with a surprise baby, enemies-to-lovers tension, and plenty of small-town charm. Grab your favorite reading snack and settle in! 📚 📖 This Weekend’s Pick This weekend’s pick is Bull Rider’s Baby Surprise by Sinclair Jayne. Cash is… Read the full review
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Tuesdays: Behind the Scenes – Episode 7: Submissions & the Waiting
Welcome back to Tuesdays: Behind the Scenes! Each week, I’m opening the doors a little wider and inviting you into the real, unpolished moments that shape my work. This week, we’re talking about one of the hardest parts of writing: sending your work out into the world and then waiting for someone else to decide… Read the full review
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📚 Weekend Small Press & Indie Book Review #6: Poppy Cakes by Abigail Drake
Welcome back to my Weekend Small Press & Indie Book Review series! This time I’m sharing a sweet, feel-good contemporary romance that made me crave cake in the best possible way: Poppy Cakes by Abigail Drake. If you love warm-hearted love stories with a touch of spice (about a two-chili-pepper level), this one might be… Read the full review
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Tuesdays: Behind the Scenes – Episode 6: Self-Care
Welcome back to our Tuesdays Behind the Scenes series. Each week, I’m opening the doors a little wider and inviting you into the real, unpolished moments that shape my work. I’d love to hear what you’d like to see next in my behind-the-scenes series—share your ideas in the comments so I can keep making these… Read the full review
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Introducing: Eliza’s Reader List
Hi friends, If you’re reading this, you already follow my blog, and I’m grateful to every one of you who has stuck around for each post and weekend book review. Today I’m opening something new: Eliza’s Reader List. Once a month, I’ll send a letter straight to your inbox with things I don’t share here:… Read the full review
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📚 Weekend Small Press & Indie Book Review #5: Tordan by Akira Angel
Welcome back to another Weekend Small Press & Indie Book Review! 🎉 I am so excited about this week’s pick because it is taking us somewhere completely out of this world — literally. Whether you’re a lifelong sci-fi fan or a romance reader who’s been curious about dipping your toes into the genre, I think… Read the full review
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Tuesdays: Behind the Scenes — Episode 5: Choosing our characters
Happy Tuesday, friends! 🎉 Welcome back to another edition of Behind the Scenes with Eliza — the place where I pull back the curtain on all the delicious, messy, inspiration-fueled magic that goes into writing a romance novel. Grab your coffee (or your croissant — no judgment here!), get cozy, and let’s talk about what… Read the full review
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📚 Weekend Small Press & Indie Book Review #4: Dear Sofia by Danielle Keil
Welcome back to another edition of my Weekend Small Press & Indie Book Review! Every weekend I spotlight a book from a small press or indie author that deserves a place on your shelf — and this week’s pick is one I had such a lovely time reading. If you love sweet, heartfelt YA romance… Read the full review
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Tuesdays: Behind the Scenes — Episode 4: Dusting Yourself off
There is a version of writing that looks wonderfully simple from the outside: sit down, open a document, and write a story. But no one tells you that writing is not just writing. It is editing. And then editing again. Five years of becoming the story I started writing Don’t Promise Me Tomorrow in 2021.… Read the full review
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Tuesdays: Behind the Scenes — Episode 3: Setting the Scene
Welcome back to another Behind the Scenes! If you’re new here — hi, I’m so glad you found me! This is my little corner of the internet where I pull back the curtain and share the messy, exciting, sometimes terrifying process of writing a book. And today? Today I get to introduce you to the… Read the full review
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