eri (e.m. caro)

OUT TODAY! 📰✊🗽 1905 M/M historical romantic suspense about a muckraker who must investigate a reclusive, openly queer NYC businessman. Secrets; murder; intrigue; kissing in blueberry fields. Anti-capitalist journalist x marshmallow neurospicy! No compromises made. ✊ books2read.com/ByAnyMeans

I kept thinking about By Any Means in the month since it came out. I‘ve just reread it – can confirm it’s as good, if not better, the second time.

"The gamble that the British government seems to have made is assuming that artists would rather receive royalties from sales in the U.K. than stand by their principles. This decision calls their bluff." This is a really helpful explainer from @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social:

This really is insane. Sally Rooney is a real one. “I have made every effort to be honest with the public about my beliefs and intentions, and I am wholly prepared to accept the consequences."

NBD, just my real, live book reviewed in (another!!) real, live trade publication in my mailbox 😭

Sometimes cold emails are real. But not when they're from gmail addresses, and not when they're long, ass-kissy, and describe your book to you as if you'd never heard of it before. IMO "rule of three" is a bad metric overall, but once you read a few of these emails they're very recognizable.

ok that hilarious blunder was almost worth watching that OT

Amazon canceled all my ebook pre-orders for DEVOURING FORTUNE because changes to keywords were saved by not finalized. I wrote more here about it, including options if your pre-order was canceled: www.oleandercraw.com/unexpected-c... Also would love shares on this to get the word out.

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

if anyone sees a theme in the RTs. no u don’t

As discussed, here is the full list of individuals whose literary feedback I accept: 1. My agent, who gets a 15% commission for placing my work 2. Editors who are paying me money for it 3. The resurrected corpse of William Shakespeare

we've really lost something that so many people expect stories to be tailored to them as an individual, rather than being an individual approaching story interested in what it means to be human.

my favourite part of le morte d'arthur is the bit where the lady Iseult calls Sir Dinadan out for having precisely zero bitches

Yes this! Also who's out here writing a book so EXACTLY INTERCHANGEABLE with another author's book that a reader would, in theory, only buy one of the two? Nobody! Books books books delicious books Nothing more delicious than a book I want ALL writers to write more books for me

readers want quarter stars, but i desperately just want IngramSpark to tell us what stores are buying the books and from what distro channels. d2d can do it for ebook, so why not ingram for print?? frex, who just (presumably*) bought a whole carton of R&V and why? 🤪 *because i cannot tell

I wish POD places printed cover flats. It’s very annoying troubleshooting color printing when a WHOLE BOOK is spat out instead of just a softcover. 😭

OOOhh, free shipping on Bookshop. org today! Get my twisty queer historical romances in paperback!! (there is also a very loosey-goosey "bibliography" here too, FYI) bookshop.org/shop/EM_Caro

I heard there's free shipping at Bookshop.org October 6-7, so here's a list of my books you can get there! Queer romances in fantasy and sci-fi settings

Now available! 🪾THE WITCH OF THE WOOD🏚️ 📖Novella 🖤MM Fantasy Romance 💀Breaking a Curse 🪾A Spooky Forest ❤️‍🔥Fast Burn 🏚️A Search for a Witch 😟Nervous x Confident Uni: books2read.com/u/bw6gwP Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/the-witch-of... Ko-Fi ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur... Cover by @isthiseva.bsky.social

Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.

Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.

🚨my book Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America is on sale today on the Kindle store for $2.99! Sorry to link to Amazon but $3 is a solid price for a book that took me three years to write www.amazon.com/Wild-Faith-C...

Hi hello yes, you like 20th century historical romance? So do I. We have put together a group of these novels all in one place for your convenience! Some of these I've read, others I'm excited to start. All AI-free and amazing. books.bookfunnel.com/20thcenturyh... #booksky #romancelandia

Sexual assault is on the rise. And recent examples in higher ed and across multiple industries, remind me how many grown men still apparently struggle with the concept of CONSENT. Here’s a useful illustration my colleagues in academia show incoming 17 and 18-yr-old freshmen: youtu.be/oQbei5JGiT8?...

It's my birthday and I'd love for you to tell your people that Radio Silence, my 1940s m/m historical romance, is coming out October 6! Preorder on Kobo, Apple, B&N, bookshop.org, Indigo Chapters! Itch and payhip links to come Oct. 6. Ask your library to buy Radio Silence!

OUT NOW! The Devouring time is available in ebook and paperback! Bookseller Sterling Caine and investigator Adrian Evans must find out what happened during Sterling’s forgotten year, or all of humanity will pay the price. CLICK HERE: buy.bookfunnel.com/2n2porj6w5

i have the privilege of seeing all my print sales in ingram and the amazon-reported numbers are only 1/3 of what i have actually sold (amazon says this figure is ~85%, though 🫠)

my favourite typo is, & will always be, ‘the literary cannon’

IT IS LIVE! behold, the cover to my next book!! Thank you so much to Dahlia at LGBTQReads for revealing it exclusively, and ofc to @thistlearts.bsky.social for creating this STUNNING classic romance cover art for me! preorder here: books2read.com/AffairsandAssets (lol, how this crops. i love it!)

Queer authors, if you will be publishing a book on ITCH DOT IO and/or KOBO PLUS between now and Dec 31, please make that book known to me below. Especially if you're not publishing on the Evil River! Pre-order link is best, itch profile is great (so I can follow you), or whatever ya got. 🌈📚