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Half-Year Update 2026
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Coming soon! HOST CLUB ON THE PLEASURE PLANET!
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Half-Year Update 2026
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Are Readers Confusing Cliche Writing for AI?
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A little while ago, there was a story making the rounds. This one had started on Reddit, perhaps part of the “AITA” type posts. The poster was seeking advice, specifically of the legal variety, because they had been threatened with a lawsuit.Why was an author looking to sue a seemingly random reader? Well, it seemed this person had accused them of using AI in their writing. So the Story Goes …...
Why Some People Still Don’t Accept Achillean Romances
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We've been using m/m romance to describe fiction featuring a relationship between two men for ages now. Why can't we move past it and adopt a better term?
Is All Mpreg Omegaverse?
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File this under "you have got to be kidding me": someone who really should know better implied all non-shifter mpreg is omegaverse.
The Straights Can Pry Omegaverse from My Cold, Dead Hands
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Recently, a social media site tried to entice me to buy a cishet OV romance novel. It was ... unhinged, to say the least.
The Coyote’s Veterinarian Omega Preview
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The following is a preview for The Coyote’s Veterinarian Omega, the first book in the COYOTE CREEK series, available July 28, 2026! One Wyatt Bang! I gritted my teeth and gripped the steering wheel as the car bottomed out over another enormous rut. The gravel road had clearly washed out in some wicked rainstorm recently, leaving nothing but potholes for my rusting Kia to rattle over. If...
Update: Cautionary Tales of Reader/Author Conventions Imploding
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(Letícia Alvares / Pexels.com) Well, I’m back from hiatus, and it seems a fair bit has happened in the time I was away. One of the things I’ve been watching develop over the last year or so has been the implosion of some of these reader/author conventions. That’s exactly as I predicted last spring. Look, I don’t like being right about people getting screwed over. Maybe I’ve just been around...
AI, Anthropic, and What the Settlement Means for Authors
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This news is nearly a year old , but it’s a precedent-setting case, worth going over again, especially as the legal framework around genAI continues to evolve. Our robot overlords got sued. (Kindel Media / Pexels.com) The case of several large publishers against Anthropic was one of the first to make its way through the courts. The judge delivered the ruling in June 2025. The Anthropic settlement...
Do Omegaverse Dynamics Promote Toxic Relationships?
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“Oh, here we go again …” (Liza Summer / Pexels.com) Recently, I was reminded of a screencap of a conversation that supposedly happened. When I saw it, all I could think was ah, the straights got a hold of the omegaverse. In this screencap, the texter was discussing their partner’s admission that they liked and read omegaverse fiction. The texter was sending a lengthy rumination...
Why Are Readers Demanding Less Spicy Reads?
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Or Are They? I recently saw a post that commented on trends in the publishing industry. One of them was that readers seem to be shifting away from so-called spicy reads. (Tom Swinnen / Pexels.com) The post gave some good reasons that this shift might be happening—but I think there’s likely more to the story than meets the eye. TikTok Ramped Up and Ruined “Spice” The major reason this post gave...
Coming January 28! Get set for more intergalactic hijinks when a monk inherits a HOST CLUB ON THE PLEASURE PLANET!