Judy Draper

A reader, a sleeper, a skeptic, a romantic. Would like to hug a sloth.

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@ReidRomance @AmazonKDP @amazonbooks Thank you!

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@catherinesque @JenReadsRomance Try Abby Jimenez for contemporary and Elisa Braden for historical. Great character development and complex side characters who advance story development. Friendships and intriguing backstories. All wonderful and re-readable.

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@ReidRomance I’ve always been curious about Hank’s story. Hope your self-care is going well.

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@MrMuncherToYou @bodaciousbrains @slooterman Or Nanny Ogg, who’s had a lifetime of successful wrangling of Esmeralda Weatherwax! 😂

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@LegallyHEA @bandherbooks Yes, he admired her from a distance, because she was in love with the boy she eventually married and lost. Her husband was a soldier who died on deployment.

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@bodaciousbrains @slooterman I can’t recommend highly enough all of the works of Sir Terry Pratchett, and in particular for your 9 yr old, the Tiffany Aching series. His world building is delightful and magical and human and fantastical and humorous and clever and shareable.

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@marypagones @TessaDare Having assisted in packing away the homes of several relatives who’ve passed away, not many dust gatherers were of much importance to those who were left behind. They were just another thing to handle and dispose of. I am a little bit better at reducing stuff now. A little bit.

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@BernardKeane Our dog-friendly office regularly has a greyhound visitor. She’s gorgeous. The weird corns her feet produce cause her grief, and she gets very tired of the new rescue pup wanting to lick her face constantly, but she maintains her dignity, until an attack of zoomies happens 😂

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@KylieScottbooks I believe this had lots to do with my teenagers and now adult kids being comfortable to talk with me about absolutely anything and everything, from first sexual experiences to problematic friendships to political issues. It’s wonderful.

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@KylieScottbooks I have a wonderful 3D book that my kids loved and we’d go back to it as they got older and had more interest and understanding of the biology and physiology. All matters to do with their bodies were and are dealt with openly and with humour, like other every-day topics.

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@mskoll62 @KylieScottbooks My mother also thought she had cancer when she got her first period, and then went on to not inform her daughters. I don’t think she had the mental vocabulary to broach the idea.

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@KylieScottbooks I’d say you’re the expert on what and how you write best. If dual POV feels the best way to tell a story, then I’m definitely there for it, but I have no trouble getting totally absorbed by your single POV novels.

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@theLindashow Jill Bengtsson’s ’Cake’ books are such stand-outs to me, I can’t recommend highly enough. Lots of humour, character development, wonderful dialogue, but also some extremely gritty subject matter surrounding childhood trauma.

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@authorMsBev One of my pet peeves as an avid Romance reader - assumption that a guaranteed HEA means a predictable, boring story. Romance is where I’ve seen the most representation of challenging topics such as bereavement, miscarriage, infertility, disability, coercive control. And a HEA 😊

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@RoseDGWrites @authorMsBev Yes! Make those sandwiches, and thank the makers of burgers for the advice that people wanting to buy burgers won’t be happy if they don’t get what’s advertised.

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@RonniSalt @Peter_Fitz @JulianAndrew63 My view is that these empathy-free versions of Christians, including those in high places in churches who manage the hiding of egregious acts of their staff, must really be atheists. Any belief in an omnipotent, omniscient being, they’d be too terrified to act the way they do.

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@courtneymilan There’s no way to predict the harm this has caused in real terms from denying or catastrophically delaying real research. Think of the immeasurable harm done by the egregiously mercenary arse who faked vaccine data.

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@Angus_Mesmer @REMARKSIST @BrandyLJensen Yes! I never got this soap analogy. I accidentally ate stink bug larvae inside berries as a kid. That’s exactly what coriander tastes and smells like. Absolutely fetid!

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@REMARKSIST @DanaMaiden @BrandyLJensen Fetid.

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@REMARKSIST @BrandyLJensen Nope, not soapy. It tastes like stink bug larvae that made me vomit as a kid when I accidentally ate them inside mulberries from our tree. It also smells like stink bug. Literally the worst taste I’ve ever experienced.