Hello my beautiful summer peaches, I hope you're all having the best Wednesday (or Thursday) of your life. I just ate a strawberry ice cream and I'm thinking about how powerful women are. I'm feeling inspired by… - Alysa Liu's gold medal winning skate (still). I know. This pic isn't new. But it gets me right in the heart because she said “actually, I'm going to do it my way” and her way was the right way. How satisfying. I'm always a sucker for a gold dress. Always!
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- Olivia Rodrigo announced a new music festival, her vision of a modern Lilith Fair, and the proceeds go to charities for girls and women. Using her power for good!! She's amazing.
- this 50 year old fashion influencer, Carmen (tomesandtextiles). Something about the way she dresses joyfully and refuses to hide makes me feel excited. I want to be her when I grow up.
If you want to tell me (and all of us!) what's inspiring you and making you feel like women run the world, I'd love to hear it in my facebook group ( Stephanie Archer Books). In Bedside Manner news, have we talked about how I put a Grant POV chapter in the paperbacks? Well, I did. All the paperbacks! Worldwide! Lucky you. For my American pals, you can get 25% off your pre-orders until Friday (see graphic below!). |
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Toronto friends, I am coming to see you!! I'm doing an event with my friend Maggie North, who wrote Fossil Feud, which is one of the best books I've read in ages. Rival palaeontologists, single POV, and he wears slutty little glasses. Delicious. Please come see us and say hello!! We're going to have so much fun. |
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Despite being a straight white man, I can't help but love Conan O'Brien. I always have. Maybe it's the hair? It's probably his sense of humor (it always gets me). He recently had comedian Atsuko Okatsuka on his podcast and I've been buzzing about it for days. She is so effortlessly funny, so unique and fascinating, and so deeply herself. I am madly in love with her. Please listen to this episode. |
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Everyone has been talking about Voicemails for Isabelle so I don't have to say much except that it is my favourite type of rom-com, something a little bit devastating but really, really funny. I've been listening to the soundtrack all week and laughing at the part where she told her dead sister, “you're probably sucking face with Heath Ledger right now.” |
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Fortune Feimster is another comedian I love who is so funny and so herself. She has this sweet, silly, uplifting sense of humor that always has me cackling. Her latest special on Netflix is particularly wonderful. |
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When a fierce rivalry between two professional wrestlers heats up beneath the spotlight, neither man can fight the attraction burning between them, in this steamy sports romance.
From death-defying stunts to campy character gimmicks, everything in the world of professional wrestling is an act. Asher Ross’s hatred for Caleb Knight, however, is not. When Asher finally gets drafted to Global Elite Wrestling’s main roster and is thrown into a feud with Caleb for the World Championship title, he’s hell-bent on making Caleb’s life a living nightmare. But as both men trade barbs and blows across arenas, they’re each surprised to find their chemistry is so electric, it can’t be just for show.
Through rehearsals, training sessions, and injuries, Caleb’s icy walls begin to thaw, revealing the real man hidden behind the cruel person GEW has molded him into. An unlikely truce blossoms into feelings neither want to deny, but, set in old ways, the company won’t let them be seen as anything more than bitter rivals, both in and out of the ring.
With the risk of their forbidden romance upending their lifelong dreams, Asher and Caleb grapple with what they truly want in an industry known to erase queerness from its history, and square up against the hardest challenge yet: how much of their hearts they are prepared to give up, and if they are willing to fight to leave a legacy of their own. |
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Vancouver Storm Series: Behind the Net - a grumpy sunshine hockey romance, assistant vs boss, roommates, boy obsessed The Fake Out - boy obsessed fake dating, ex's rival, forced proximity, golden retriever hero The Wingman - relationship coach, golden retriever himbo hero, best friends to lovers Gloves Off - enemies to lovers, marriage of convenience, grumpy/sunshine Queen's Cove series: That Kind of Guy - fake dating, enemies to lovers, reverse grumpy sunshine, he falls first The Wrong Mr. Right - spice coaching, shy bookstore owner vs hot surfer, friends to lovers, only one tent |
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