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October 27, 2025

New Release Spotlight: Heart of Stone by Ellie Thomas

Thank you so much, Nell, for having me back on the blog again! I’m Ellie, I write Historical MM Romance and today, I’m here to chat about my new release, Heart of Stone, Book 3 in my Regency Paranormal novella series, this year’s Halloween story.

All three novellas in this series feature the staple of Regency fiction, the country house party as a recurring theme! In the first story, The Monk’s Lair, shy and retiring Christian is dragged along by his formidable aunt to a house party in Glouces...

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Published on October 27, 2025 07:00

August 18, 2025

New Release Spotlight: An Unlikely Alliance Box Set by Ellie Thomas

The lovely Ellie Thomas is back on the blog today with her latest release, An Unlikely Alliance. It’s a box set! We love box sets here on my blog, and especially this one. It’s a collection of three lovely stories that I’ve read and loved, so I give it my warmest recommendations.

Please help me welcome Ellie to the blog, everyone ❤

Thank you so much, Nell, for having me back on the blog again! I’m Ellie, and I write Historical MM Romance. I’m delighted to announce that the box set for ...

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Published on August 18, 2025 06:00

July 24, 2025

Read Around the Rainbow: Three Things That Make Me Happy

Read Around the Rainbow is a blogging project featuring yours truly, A.L. Lester, Ofelia Gränd, Holly Day, K.L. Noone, Amy Spector, Addison Albright, Fiona Glass, Lilian Francis, and Ellie Thomas. Every month, we pick a topic and then we blog about it. Check the other blog posts by clicking the RAtR widget in the sidebar, or the links at the bottom of this post.

The July topic for the Read Around the Rainbow blog project is an easy one: three things that makes me happy. Let’s dive rig...

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Published on July 24, 2025 23:00

July 7, 2025

New Release Spotlight: A Period of Adjustmen by Ellie Thomas

Thank you so much, Nell, for having me back on the blog again! I’m Ellie, I write Historical MM Romance and today, I’m here to chat about my new release, A Period of Adjustment.

This is the tenth story in my Twelve Letters series, set in Regency London with an ensemble cast of four established couples. In the ninth story, A United Front, released in April, one of my couples, Jolyon Everett and Daniel Walters were threatened with blackmail. Their friends rallied around and managed to subdue th...

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Published on July 07, 2025 06:00

June 9, 2025

New Release Spotlight: The Perfect Number by Ellie Thomas

Hi friends! I’m very excited to welcome Ellie Thomas to my blog today. She’s here to talk about her most recent release, The Perfect Number. It’s a free (yes, you read that right, FREE!) collection of three short stories about Humphrey, Abe, and Clem, the MCs from her An Unlikely Alliance trilogy. And if you, like me, absolutely adore Humphrey, Abe, and Clem, you don’t want to miss out this book!

Thank you so much, Nell, for having me back on the blog again! I’m Ellie, and I write Histori...

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Published on June 09, 2025 06:00

April 12, 2025

New Release Spotlight: A United Front by Ellie Thomas

Thank you so much, Nell, for having me back on the blog again! I’m Ellie, I write Historical MM Romance and today, I’m here to chat about my new release, A United Front.

The ninth story in my Regency Twelve Letters series was inspired by reading Some Men in London, a two-volume anthology charting what life was like for gay men in the English capital between 1945 and 1967.

Depressingly, blackmail was a recurring theme at that period and reminded me that, at least to a certain extent, that s...

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Published on April 12, 2025 06:00

February 17, 2025

New Release Spotlight: Season of Hope by Ellie Thomas

Thanks so much lovely Nell for having me as your guest again! I’m Ellie, I write Gay Historical romance, and I’m here today to chat about my brand-new release, Season of Hope, the sequel to my Christmas story, Season of Joy.

In the first story, I brought my couple Walter and Stanley together against the backdrop of 1920s Cheltenham. In this era (as now) Cheltenham was a fashionable spa town that attracted many tourists. However, rather than moneyed visitors, my couple is from the working clas...

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Published on February 17, 2025 06:00

January 30, 2025

Read Around the Rainbow: What I’m Looking Forward to in 2025

Read Around the Rainbow is a blogging project featuring yours truly, A.L. Lester, Ofelia Gränd, Holly Day, K.L. Noone, Amy Spector, Addison Albright, Fiona Glass, Lilian Francis, and Ellie Thomas. Every month, we pick a topic and then we blog about it. Check the other blog posts by clicking the RAtR widget in the sidebar, or the links at the bottom of this post.

The January topic for the Read Around the Rainbow blog project is five things I’m looking forward to in 2025. However, even ...

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Published on January 30, 2025 23:00

December 31, 2024

Goodbye 2024

I’m just here real quick to say goodbye to the old year, to talk about books – old and new – and cheap books because of New Year’s sales. But first, I’d like to ask you if you subscribe to my newsletter? I’ve recently started to send more newsletters, so if you haven’t yet signed up, may I suggest that you do? It’s sort of like the blog, but between you and me, I’ve lost a bit of love for blogging, and newsletters feels less complicated, so I gravitate towards writing them instead.

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Published on December 31, 2024 06:54

December 20, 2024

After the Storm – Free Today Only

Today’s the day, today i “my” day in the JMS Books Advent Calendar which means you can download After the Storm for free today, December 20, EST time. It’s only available in the JMS shop today; tomorrow it will be released everywhere else, but it also won’t be free anymore.

So don’t miss this opportunity. Clickety-click the button below and download After the Storm for free today.

Take me to the jms books’ advent calendar

Six years ago, eleven-year-old Vega died in a car ...

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Published on December 20, 2024 03:55