DAYdreamers Rejoice, a Sign of the AI Times & TWWBF2025 Less Than 2 Weeks Away!

The wait is over for fans of Sylvia Day and for specific fans of her Crossfire series.

[cover art of a woman standing with her back to a man who is embracing her waist with one hand while she reaches back to cup his cheek; "New York Times Bestselling Author Sylvia Day, Ireland, A Crossroads Novel"]

Ireland (Crossroads #1) by Sylvia Day, author & publisher

contemporary romance fiction

April 2025

Before this current wave of erotic and dark romance authors, there were these notable past and current talents: Zane, Cecilia Tan, Susan Johnson (now writing as C.C. Gibbs), Robin Schone, Thea Devine, and Sylvia Day. Crossfire fans, it's time to celebrate the launch of this related Crossroads series with its steamy, angst-drenched first entry of Ireland and Ronan's adversarial courtship. Ireland ends on a cliffhanger and Illusion, book 2, is scheduled for an April 2026 release, leaving plenty of time to read the original series, an enjoyable task the author recommends that readers new to this world complete first.

And then there's the sad fact that we've reached the point in human history and technological development in which having a book registered as "Human Authored" is now necessary.

Ay-yi-yi

[same cover art as above for Ireland by Sylvia Day placed to the left of a title page with "Human Authored AG AuthorsGuild" seal above "HumanAuthored(TM)--Reg#..."]

Before every trip to the library to return books I remind myself that I don't need to borrow anymore books until I've read the ones I already have on loan. And every time the new books display tempts me beyond my ability to resist.

Here's my most recent BAC (Book Acquisition Compulsion) Stack

[a horizontal stack of 7 books from top to bottom: No Ordinary Love; Salty, Spiced, and a Little Bit Nice, The Love Fix, A Lady Would Know Better, Direct Descendant, Left of Forever, Summer in the City]

Tickets are still available for The Write Women Book Fest in Bowie, MD 7/19 & 7/20!

https://www.thewritewomenbookfest.org/#/

Always wishing you good health, peace of mind, safety & joy!

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