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about 3 years ago

Amazing achievement and huge congrats to @AngelaMSims1 and #TheRoseofFlorence for contender at the #RNAJoanHessayonAward2023 .@RNATweets #TheRoseofFlorence is out now in eBook & hardback, paperback coming soon, immerse yourself in the world of #Renaissance #Florence and the #PazziConspiracy https://t.co/yLKPh5rw8x

Romaunce's tweet photo. Amazing achievement and huge congrats to @AngelaMSims1 and #TheRoseofFlorence for contender at the #RNAJoanHessayonAward2023 .@RNATweets #TheRoseofFlorence is out now in eBook & hardback, paperback coming soon, immerse yourself in the world of #Renaissance #Florence and the #PazziConspiracy
https://t.co/yLKPh5rw8x

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@Romaunce

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"A beautifully emotional historical novel." Against the backdrop of war and political upheaval, two women discover that love can become the greatest act of courage... Hiding the Flame by @AngelaMSims1 🕯️💕 #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #LGBTQBooks

Romaunce's tweet photo. "A beautifully emotional historical novel."

Against the backdrop of war and political upheaval, two women discover that love can become the greatest act of courage...

Hiding the Flame by @AngelaMSims1 🕯️💕

#HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #LGBTQBooks https://t.co/usUdc3wF9A

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@Romaunce

22 days ago

Florence, 1497. Girolamo Savonarola's followers are burning paintings in the streets, and Francesca Rosini paints in secret, by candlelight, behind false panels, terrified of a world that calls beauty a sin. Then she meets Vittoria, a merchant's wife whose quiet courage cracks open everything Francesca has been taught to tear. Against the backdrop of war and religious upheaval, two women discover that love can become the greatest act of courage... 📖 Hiding the Flame by @AngelaMSims1 is a sweeping LGBTQ+ historical novel for fans of Sarah Waters, Emma Donoghue, and Sue Monk Kida. 🔥 Add Hiding the Flame to your TBR now! #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #LGBTQBooks

Romaunce's tweet photo. Florence, 1497. Girolamo Savonarola's followers are burning paintings in the streets, and Francesca Rosini paints in secret, by candlelight, behind false panels, terrified of a world that calls beauty a sin. Then she meets Vittoria, a merchant's wife whose quiet courage cracks open everything Francesca has been taught to tear.

Against the backdrop of war and religious upheaval, two women discover that love can become the greatest act of courage...

📖 Hiding the Flame by @AngelaMSims1 is a sweeping LGBTQ+ historical novel for fans of Sarah Waters, Emma Donoghue, and Sue Monk Kida.

🔥 Add Hiding the Flame to your TBR now!

#HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #LGBTQBooks

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@Romaunce

about 1 month ago

History remembers kings. History remembers queens. Sometimes it forgets the women who survived by disappearing completely. Discover Joanna's remarkable journey. Now available on NetGalley: https://t.co/vinxmEMOts #HistoricalFiction #TudorHistoricalFiction

Romaunce's tweet photo. History remembers kings. History remembers queens. Sometimes it forgets the women who survived by disappearing completely.

Discover Joanna's remarkable journey.

Now available on NetGalley: https://t.co/vinxmEMOts

#HistoricalFiction #TudorHistoricalFiction https://t.co/cfYmpXnokp

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about 1 month ago

We are looking for ARC reviewers for The Unicorn Summer! From award-winning author Rhona Martin comes an unforgettable Tudor story of courage, identity and revenge. A young woman must hide behind a man's identity to survive in Tudor England, but love, betrayal and revenge threaten to expose everything she has fought to protect 💘🌹 Now available on NetGalley: https://t.co/MwWLuJUiPz #WomenInHistory #TudorHistoricalFiction

Romaunce's tweet photo. We are looking for ARC reviewers for The Unicorn Summer!

From award-winning author Rhona Martin comes an unforgettable Tudor story of courage, identity and revenge.

A young woman must hide behind a man's identity to survive in Tudor England, but love, betrayal and revenge threaten to expose everything she has fought to protect 💘🌹

Now available on NetGalley: https://t.co/MwWLuJUiPz

#WomenInHistory #TudorHistoricalFiction

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Daniel Lismore

@daniellismore

7 months ago

The UK Is Now a “Country of Concern” for Trans People. That Should Alarm Everyone. Something extraordinary has happened, and it has barely been absorbed by the public. The United Kingdom has been formally criticised by the Council of Europe for an “appalling rise in transphobia and toxic anti-trans discourse” and placed alongside countries such as Poland, Hungary, Turkey and Russia as a country of concern for LGBTQIA+ people. This is not the assessment of activists on social media. It is the conclusion of Europe’s leading human rights body. The Council of Europe’s resolution, debated and adopted in January, did not emerge from nowhere. It followed years of escalating hostile rhetoric in UK politics, media and public life, particularly aimed at trans people. British delegates attempted to dilute the findings during the debate and failed. The rebuke stood. Adam Long of the National LGBT Federation described the situation plainly. The rise in anti-trans discourse in the UK is no longer marginal. It is visible, sustained and harmful. The Council’s decision reflects a recognition that this rhetoric is producing real-world consequences. Ireland’s Transgender Equality Network chair, Sara Phillips, was equally clear. The narratives being pushed do not merely debate policy. They deny the existence of trans people, undermine their rights and dehumanise them. These campaigns do not stop at trans communities. They bleed into attacks on wider LGBTQIA+ equality, reproductive rights and the rights of women and children. This is how human rights erosion works. It never announces itself as oppression. It frames itself as “common sense”, “concern” or “balance”. But the outcomes are measurable. Increased hate speech. Increased harassment. Increased violence. Increased fear. That is why the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention issued a red-flag alert for the UK in relation to anti-trans and anti-intersex rights. A red flag is not an accusation of genocide. It is an early warning system. It identifies patterns that historically precede mass rights violations: scapegoating, dehumanisation, moral panic, institutional hostility and the narrowing of legal protections. The Lemkin Institute’s analysis highlights how trans people in the UK are increasingly framed as threats rather than citizens. Language matters. When pronouns are stripped in reporting, when identity is treated as ideology, when existence is debated rather than protected, the groundwork for exclusion is laid. What makes this particularly disturbing is the comparison the Council of Europe itself draws. Poland’s so-called “LGBT-free zones”. Hungary’s ban on LGBTQ+ representation to minors. Turkey’s systematic rollbacks of queer rights. These are not fringe regimes. They are cautionary examples of how quickly a democracy can slide when minorities are treated as disposable. The UK now appears in that conversation. This is not about silencing disagreement. It is about recognising when disagreement turns into organised hostility backed by institutions. Human rights law exists precisely to protect minorities when they become politically inconvenient. The Council of Europe was explicit. States have a duty to counter misleading narratives, increase public understanding and actively promote equality. Neutrality in the face of dehumanisation is not neutrality. It is complicity. What happens next matters. Countries can change course. They can correct. They can choose dignity over panic. But pretending this condemnation does not exist will not make it go away. When international human rights bodies raise alarms, history shows it is wise to listen early rather than explain later. Shame on @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting — Sources Council of Europe Resolution on rising anti-trans hostility GCN reporting on the UK as a “country of concern” https://t.co/ocGXcG3kL8 Lemkin Institute Red Flag Alert on anti-trans and intersex rights in the UK https://t.co/j2z14vRirQ

daniellismore's tweet photo. The UK Is Now a “Country of Concern” for Trans People. That Should Alarm Everyone.

Something extraordinary has happened, and it has barely been absorbed by the public.

The United Kingdom has been formally criticised by the Council of Europe for an “appalling rise in transphobia and toxic anti-trans discourse” and placed alongside countries such as Poland, Hungary, Turkey and Russia as a country of concern for LGBTQIA+ people. This is not the assessment of activists on social media. It is the conclusion of Europe’s leading human rights body.

The Council of Europe’s resolution, debated and adopted in January, did not emerge from nowhere. It followed years of escalating hostile rhetoric in UK politics, media and public life, particularly aimed at trans people. British delegates attempted to dilute the findings during the debate and failed. The rebuke stood.

Adam Long of the National LGBT Federation described the situation plainly. The rise in anti-trans discourse in the UK is no longer marginal. It is visible, sustained and harmful. The Council’s decision reflects a recognition that this rhetoric is producing real-world consequences.

Ireland’s Transgender Equality Network chair, Sara Phillips, was equally clear. The narratives being pushed do not merely debate policy. They deny the existence of trans people, undermine their rights and dehumanise them. These campaigns do not stop at trans communities. They bleed into attacks on wider LGBTQIA+ equality, reproductive rights and the rights of women and children.

This is how human rights erosion works. It never announces itself as oppression. It frames itself as “common sense”, “concern” or “balance”. But the outcomes are measurable. Increased hate speech. Increased harassment. Increased violence. Increased fear.

That is why the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention issued a red-flag alert for the UK in relation to anti-trans and anti-intersex rights. A red flag is not an accusation of genocide. It is an early warning system. It identifies patterns that historically precede mass rights violations: scapegoating, dehumanisation, moral panic, institutional hostility and the narrowing of legal protections.

The Lemkin Institute’s analysis highlights how trans people in the UK are increasingly framed as threats rather than citizens. Language matters. When pronouns are stripped in reporting, when identity is treated as ideology, when existence is debated rather than protected, the groundwork for exclusion is laid.

What makes this particularly disturbing is the comparison the Council of Europe itself draws. Poland’s so-called “LGBT-free zones”. Hungary’s ban on LGBTQ+ representation to minors. Turkey’s systematic rollbacks of queer rights. These are not fringe regimes. They are cautionary examples of how quickly a democracy can slide when minorities are treated as disposable.

The UK now appears in that conversation.

This is not about silencing disagreement. It is about recognising when disagreement turns into organised hostility backed by institutions. Human rights law exists precisely to protect minorities when they become politically inconvenient.

The Council of Europe was explicit. States have a duty to counter misleading narratives, increase public understanding and actively promote equality. Neutrality in the face of dehumanisation is not neutrality. It is complicity.

What happens next matters. Countries can change course. They can correct. They can choose dignity over panic. But pretending this condemnation does not exist will not make it go away.

When international human rights bodies raise alarms, history shows it is wise to listen early rather than explain later.

Shame on @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting

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Sources
Council of Europe Resolution on rising anti-trans hostility
GCN reporting on the UK as a “country of concern”
https://t.co/ocGXcG3kL8

Lemkin Institute Red Flag Alert on anti-trans and intersex rights in the UK
https://t.co/j2z14vRirQ

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Ethan Ray

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8 months ago

Teacher is important because without her mission been impossible 🐝 🐝❤️❤️

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Mereo Books @memoirs_books

9 months ago

OUR NEXT CHAPTER IS ALMOST HERE WITH SOMETHING NEW ON THE PAGE https://t.co/A1By3HQwiv

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Mereo Books @memoirs_books

9 months ago

Jeannie travels to Naples to uncover the past… but it’s her own history that rises from the ruins. Atmospheric, emotional and unforgettable. Secrets of the Scrolls is women’s fiction at its finest. #NewBook #WomensFiction #BookRecommendation Pre-order https://t.co/aiCv0eXVmE

memoirs_books's tweet photo. Jeannie travels to Naples to uncover the past… but it’s her own history that rises from the ruins.
Atmospheric, emotional and unforgettable.
Secrets of the Scrolls is women’s fiction at its finest.

#NewBook #WomensFiction #BookRecommendation

Pre-order https://t.co/aiCv0eXVmE https://t.co/aMZ39zHTYW

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Mereo Books @memoirs_books

9 months ago

Ancient scrolls. Buried secrets. A young woman searching for identity on the Bay of Naples. If you love emotional, character-driven fiction, this one’s for you. #AmReading #BookLaunch #LiteraryFiction #Italy Pre-order https://t.co/aiCv0eXnx6

memoirs_books's tweet photo. Ancient scrolls. Buried secrets. A young woman searching for identity on the Bay of Naples.

If you love emotional, character-driven fiction, this one’s for you.

#AmReading #BookLaunch #LiteraryFiction #Italy

Pre-order https://t.co/aiCv0eXnx6 https://t.co/dIl446pai1

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@Romaunce

9 months ago

For readers who adore: 💗evocative Renaissance settings 💗emotional slow-burn tension 💗courageous heroines 💗beautifully written love stories 💘Hiding the Flame is waiting for you. #Bookish #AmReading #AngelaMSims #RNATweets Buy now https://t.co/0YWFoYXVLH

Romaunce's tweet photo. For readers who adore:
💗evocative Renaissance settings
💗emotional slow-burn tension
💗courageous heroines
💗beautifully written love stories
💘Hiding the Flame is waiting for you.
#Bookish #AmReading #AngelaMSims #RNATweets
Buy now https://t.co/0YWFoYXVLH

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@Romaunce

9 months ago

What would you risk to protect your art? Your heart? Your truth? Francesca Rosini is about to find out. ❤️‍🔥Hiding the Flame - a compelling historical tale you won’t forget. #BookPromo #AngelaMSims #romancebooks @GayRomance0 Buy now https://t.co/dxGnGJ1beT

Romaunce's tweet photo. What would you risk to protect your art?
Your heart?
Your truth?
Francesca Rosini is about to find out.
❤️‍🔥Hiding the Flame - a compelling historical tale you won’t forget.

#BookPromo #AngelaMSims #romancebooks @GayRomance0 Buy now https://t.co/dxGnGJ1beT

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9 months ago

A single glance. A shared moment. A bond neither woman expected - or can afford. In a city ruled by fear, love becomes the bravest act of all. ❤️‍🔥Hiding the Flame #FictionFriday #BookLaunch #AngelaMSims #RomanceNovelistsAssociation Buy now https://t.co/69zMEOmqYi

Romaunce's tweet photo. A single glance. A shared moment.
A bond neither woman expected - or can afford.
In a city ruled by fear, love becomes the bravest act of all. ❤️‍🔥Hiding the Flame

#FictionFriday #BookLaunch #AngelaMSims #RomanceNovelistsAssociation Buy now https://t.co/69zMEOmqYi

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9 months ago

Looking for your next gorgeous, atmospheric historical read? Florence, forbidden romance, artistic rebellion, high stakes - it’s all here. ❤️‍🔥Hiding the Flame #BookTwitter #HistoricalRomance #AngelaMSims On Amazon https://t.co/8D22OB2ZaE

Romaunce's tweet photo. Looking for your next gorgeous, atmospheric historical read? Florence, forbidden romance, artistic rebellion, high stakes - it’s all here.

❤️‍🔥Hiding the Flame
#BookTwitter #HistoricalRomance #AngelaMSims
On Amazon https://t.co/8D22OB2ZaE

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9 months ago

“Beauty is a sin,” the priests warn.⛪ Francesca paints anyway. And what she discovers changes her life forever… A gripping tale of passion, loyalty & dangerous secrets. ❤️‍🔥 Hiding the Flame #ReadersCommunity #Romance #romanticgetaway #AngelaMSims On Amazon now https://t.co/mCjzRcOwFz

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9 months ago

Art can save you. Art can destroy you. In Renaissance Florence, it can do both. Follow Francesca Rosini’s journey from silence to bold self-discovery. ❤️‍🔥Hiding the Flame #BookLove #NewReleases #AngelaMSims #HidingtheFlame Buy now https://t.co/BPDEo6jLF5

Romaunce's tweet photo. Art can save you.
Art can destroy you.
In Renaissance Florence, it can do both.
Follow Francesca Rosini’s journey from silence to bold self-discovery.
❤️‍🔥Hiding the Flame
#BookLove #NewReleases #AngelaMSims #HidingtheFlame Buy now https://t.co/BPDEo6jLF5

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Art can save you. Art can destroy you. In Renaissance Florence, it can do both. Follow Francesca Rosini’s journey from silence to bold self-discovery. ❤️‍🔥Hiding the Flame #BookLove #NewReleases #AngelaMSims #HidingtheFlame Buy now https://t.co/BPDEo6jLF5

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9 months ago

“Beauty is a sin,” the priests warn.⛪ Francesca paints anyway. And what she discovers changes her life forever… A gripping tale of passion, loyalty & dangerous secrets. ❤️‍🔥 Hiding the Flame #ReadersCommunity #Romance #romanticgetaway #AngelaMSims On Amazon now https://t.co/mCjzRcOwFz

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9 months ago

Looking for your next gorgeous, atmospheric historical read? Florence, forbidden romance, artistic rebellion, high stakes - it’s all here. ❤️‍🔥Hiding the Flame #BookTwitter #HistoricalRomance #AngelaMSims On Amazon https://t.co/8D22OB2ZaE

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9 months ago

A single glance. A shared moment. A bond neither woman expected - or can afford. In a city ruled by fear, love becomes the bravest act of all. ❤️‍🔥Hiding the Flame #FictionFriday #BookLaunch #AngelaMSims #RomanceNovelistsAssociation Buy now https://t.co/69zMEOmqYi

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What would you risk to protect your art? Your heart? Your truth? Francesca Rosini is about to find out. ❤️‍🔥Hiding the Flame - a compelling historical tale you won’t forget. #BookPromo #AngelaMSims #romancebooks @GayRomance0 Buy now https://t.co/dxGnGJ1beT

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