Does This Newsletter Make Me Look Boring?
Probably. But it be like that sometimes.
hello lover,
This newsletter is going to be a bit of a round-up of “interesting” news and updates. Interesting obviously doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. So, lets get right into it:
I’m Dragging My Ass Back to KU
If you’ve been around, you’ll have heard that I took my books wide last month. Originally, I had planned to keep my books (specifically, The Match Faker and Most Likely to Match) up on Apple Books and Kobo for the summer, but I haven’t been able to devote the attention to book promotion1 that having my books wide requires while I’m rewriting a book, as well. So, we’re back to Kindle Unlimited (fuck you Bezos).
Once I’m done with this re-write, I will reassess, but I want to say thank you if you were one of the readers who supported me on Apple Books or Kobo/Kobo+ while The Match Faker and Most Likely to Match were available there! As always, your support is everything. Like, literally. It helps me eat.
Read The Match Faker and Most Likely to Match on Kindle Unlimited! And as always, you can buy the e-book or paperback on Amazon or order them through your local indie.
Highly Recommend Watching TV With Your Partner
This is probably the silliest thing I’ve ver said, but let me provide some context first:
I am the TV watcher in my relationship. My husband would probably only turn the TV on for sports if I wasn’t here to use the remote. I’ve always got a new show or an old faithful on the go and my husband will tune in if he feels like it, but we never watch a show together together. If I watch a few episodes without him after he’s sat and watched with me, he doesn’t care.2
However, at the beginning of the year, after a weekend away at a friend’s cottage, I was introduced to reality TV show, Traitors. When I came home, I started the season from the beginning (Traitors US, S4) and my husband was immediately hooked. He’s very interested in human behaviour and Traitors is a great show for that. Since we watched that whole season together, we’ve also watched: the entirety of Traitors US, Traitors UK, Celebrity Traitors UK, Traitors Canada, and Traitors Ireland. We got really into it, hypothesizing about potential strategies, discussing how we’d approach roundtable discussion and confrontation. It was so much fun.
Then we moved on to Taskmaster, which we’ve watched quite a few seasons of. My husband is not a man who laughs a lot. To be clear, he does laugh, but his laughter is not big. He doesn’t really make a lot of noise when he laughs. He mostly exhales forcefully with a smile on his face and that’s how you know he thinks something is funny. Taskmaster makes this man LAUGH. It is absolutely joyous to hear the sound.
Now, we’re looking for a new show, so if you have any suggestions along the lines of Taskmaster or Traitors, I’d love to hear them.3
What Ruby’s Reading Right Now
For reasons that remain unclear, I have a lot of books on the go right now without finishing any of them. This is not a reflection of the quality of the books, but rather a reflection of the sheer number of books I’m reading. But one book that I read AND finished and LOVED was Ruby & the V-Day Vanpires by JL Logosz and Vera Valentine.
It’s a short (about 30 min.), MFMM paranormal erotic romance and the FMCs voice was so fucking delightful I spent the whole 30ish minutes kicking my feet with delight.
NOTE: It does not need to be Valentine’s Day for you to enjoy this novella.
Please pick it up if you have 30 minutes to spare. I hope you love it and it brings you as much delight as it brought me!
Here’s a list of the other books I have on the go right now:
Wed to the Alien Warlord by January Bell (e-book)
A Pack for Autumn by Emilia Emerson (e-book)4
Morning Glory Milking Farm by CM Nascosta (e-book)5
Wrangled by the Alien Rancher by Ursa Dax (e-book)
Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman (audiobook)
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (audiobook)
Romance Your Plan by Zoe York (paperback)
Honestly, that’s it. I told you. “Interesting” this newsletter was probably not! But grateful I am, if you’ve made it this far!
Happy summer Northern Hemisphere babes!
If you’re a Blue Jays fan: I love you! We’ll get through this!
If you’re watching FIFA right now, I hope your team wins, as long as your team is a colonized country beating its colonizer! Watching history be made for so much of the Global South, especially African teams, at this tournament has been so joyous. I wouldn’t call myself a fùtbol fan just yet, but if anything, this tournament has reinforced for me how sports are really just narrative and narrative is life because…
Play me out Danny Rojas:
xo Rubes
And if you read my last newsletter, you know how I’m feeling about promotion in general anyway.
When I’ve told people this in the past, I have been told that this is unhinged behaviour but I am unclear as to who is unhinged, him or me. Either way, it works for us!
We’ve watched Game Changers and no reality dating shows please :)
Emilia is my agent sibling!
I feel like I may be the last person in the Romance world to have read this book