Fantasy author Rhiannon Rollness takes us on a journey through the creation of her dark fantasy novel "Black and Blue Widow" - a story about a female serial killer who targets the worst men in her society on their wedding night. Drawing inspiration from the TV show Dexter but set in a richly detailed world inspired by ancient Rome, Rhiannon crafts a protagonist you can't help but root for.

Book blurb:

Gild by Raven Kennedy meets a female version of Dexter in this gritty dark romantasy. With gods-blessed magic, vigilante justice, sisterhood, and unexpected romance, Black and Blue Widow will have you rooting for rage, revenge, and somehow, love.

She’s killed every husband she’s ever had. He wants to marry her anyway.

Luella Amulius identifies and marries the worst men in the republic. Then she murders them on their wedding night. When the Emperor’s brother, Cassius, discovers her next target, he doesn’t turn her in. He proposes. As their wedding approaches, Luella must decide: is he her partner or her prey?

Rose Octavius needs a husband. Desperate to escape her fathers’ plans to sell her to the cruelest brothel in the city and find a way to protect her sister, Rose accepts a proposal. As her nuptials loom, she realizes safety is more relative than she thought, and marriage doesn’t guarantee anything.

As each woman navigates an empire that would keep them obedient, they must determine whom to trust with their love–and their lives.

Black and Blue Widow is a dark romantasy intended for adult audiences (18+). It contains explicit content and darker elements.

Author bio
Rhiannon Rollness is a fantasy author, nurse, wife, and mother. When not balancing all of these, you can find her reading, obsessively listening to the same song on repeat, baking muffins, lounging by her pool, and daydreaming. In her stories, you’ll find a mix of fantasy, myth, and science. If you like books that remind us that the human experience is sometimes best explored in magical places, you’ve come to the right place.

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Lily Parker shares her journey from secret writer to published author with three rom-coms releasing in rapid succession in 2024. Her insights on overcoming imposter syndrome, the importance of writing communities, and embracing vulnerability provide inspiring guidance for aspiring authors.

• Struggled with imposter syndrome before admitting her dream of becoming a published author
• Formed essential writing partnerships by sharing early chapters with trusted beta readers
• Used her background in psychology and marketing to develop authentic characters and compelling stories
• Found unexpected success when a chance meeting at a self-publishing conference led to a three-book deal

Author Bio:

Lily Parker is a full-time romance writer, former professional matchmaker, and an avid seeker of absurd adventures. After helping other authors bring their stories to life, she decided it was time to write the kinds of books she’s always wanted to read. With a knack for blending humor, heart, and unforgettable characters, Lily creates stories that pull readers in and leave them believing in love—no matter the odds. When she’s not writing, you can find her planning her next venture with her husband or daydreaming about just one more happily-ever-after.

THE BEST WRONG MOVE (book 1 in the Off-Limits series)

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Blurb:

Fake-dating has never been so hot.

Celebrity news anchor Olivia’s live-streamed marriage proposal ends in public humiliation — her almost-fiancé Rex says no.

Desperate to escape, Liv flees to Hawaii. Stunning sunsets and ocean views will help her plan her next move. Only to find Rex there too . . . with his new girlfriend!

And when Liv locks herself out of her rental, wearing nothing but red lacy underwear, she knows things definitely can go from bad to worse. Until she’s rescued by gorgeous and mysterious surfer, Dom, who looks like he’s walked straight out of the ocean and into Liv’s fantasies!

Their not-so-meet-cute turns out to be the perfect solution to get back at Rex — a fake date. The plan is foolproof. Dom needs a distraction. Liv needs revenge.

But the more Liv and Dom fake it, the more the kisses start to feel a little too real — and in paradise, playing pretend has never been so tempting . . .

TROPES:

❤️ Spicy Romance 🌶🌶🌶🌶

❤️ Friends-to-lovers

❤️ Fake-dating

❤️ Cinnamon roll hero

❤️ Forced proximity

❤️ Opposites attract

❤️ Holiday romance

About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

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Victor Suthammanont shares his journey from aspiring playwright to debut novelist with "Hollow Spaces," a dual-timeline thriller about a man acquitted of murder and his children who, decades later, attempt to determine his true guilt or innocence.

• Former actor and current lawyer who balanced creative writing throughout his career
• Drew inspiration from a New York Times article about a man whose life was ruined despite being acquitted of murder
• Explores intergenerational trauma and what we inherit from our parents
• Writing process involves "pantsing" (discovery writing) for most of the book before outlining the final quarter
• Discusses how anger often masks sadness, particularly in men
• Writing requires perseverance through constant rejection
• Advises new writers to treat their journey as "a marathon, not a sprint"
• Finds joy in crafting sentences and discovering unexpected narrative directions

Book Blurb:

The sole Asian American partner at a prestigious law firm sees his professional and personal life demolished when he is put on trial for murder. Three decades later, his children reunite to uncover the truth and try to salvage what remains of their family.

Thirty years ago, John Lo, the only Asian American partner at a prestigious New York City law firm, was acquitted of the murder of an employee he was having an affair with. The repercussions of that long-ago event still haunt his adult children. Brennan, a lawyer following in her father’s footsteps in more ways than one, has always maintained that the trial got it right. Hunter, a disgruntled war correspondent whose similarities to his father run more than skin-deep, believes their father got away with murder. Their convictions have pushed them apart. Now, spurred on by their mother’s failing health, the estranged siblings decide to reconcile their differences by reinvestigating the murder to come to a definitive conclusion, and, in the process, salvage what’s left of their fragmented family.

Told in a dual timeline that moves between John’s perspective thirty years prior and Brennan and Hunter’s present-day investigation, Hollow Spaces is a moving portrait of a flawed man’s shocking fall from grace and a gripping exploration of race in corporate America, filial loyalty, ambition, and the fallout of a sensational trial for those caught in its wake.

About Victor:

I am a writer who practices law in New York City. I write literary/upmarket and crime fiction. My debut novel, Hollow Spaces, is scheduled to be published by Counterpoint Press on August 5, 2025. I am also the author of the Audible Original Little Surrenders.

I was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, and attended St. Peter’s Preparatory School, where I was, among other things, the editor of the literary magazine and a varsity swimmer. I attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where I studied at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. While at NYU, I wrote, produced, and directed an off-off-Broadway play, as well as performed stand-up comedy.

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About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

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Vicki Ann Bush returns to discuss her Alex McKenna paranormal YA series, exploring how she develops this gifted psychic protagonist through increasingly darker supernatural mysteries across multiple books.

Author Bio

Originally from New York, Vicki-Ann currently resides in the Pacific Northwest. Writing Young Adult paranormal, she finds inspiration from events that have been in her life for as long as she can remember. Inheriting the sensitivity to the supernatural from her family, they continue to be an endless source of vision.

Released in September 2023 by Creative James Media, the second edition of Alex McKenna & The Geranium Deaths. The first book in the YA, Paranormal, LGBTQ series, that features a seventeen- year-old, transgender boy with paranormal abilities.

Alex McKenna & The Academy of Souls, October 2024.

Alex McKenna & A Winter’s Night, February 2025.

Alex McKenna & Death Is Not The Beginning, Coming October 2025.

The first edition of Alex McKenna & The Geranium Deaths, received the Gold Medal in the Readers Favorite Book Awards for Young Adult, Paranormal in 2020.

In 2022 Vicki-Ann signed an additional two book publishing deal with CJM Publishing, which includes the YA Paranormal Romance, The Darkest Light, and the Sci-Fi, Liminal Space.

Vicki-Ann is also a produced short screenplay writer of Alex McKenna: Alex & Margaret’s Beginning, a mutli-award winning short film inspired by her supernatural, LGBTQ+ Alex McKenna novels. https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm13181597

Website and Social Media: https://vickiannbush.carrd.co/

Book Blurb:
One winter's night can change everything

With only a year left of high school, the love of his life, Margaret at his side, and the most supportive family anyone could want, Alex McKenna couldn't ask for anything more.

Alex was learning more about his family's abilities as Strega witches and his psychic powers were continuing to grow. Things were good.

Until one night when everything falls to pieces.

Margaret lay in the hospital after a serious car accident, her disembodied spirit searching for a way back to the living. Alex is desperate to save her and the victims of his next case. An ominous being is haunting the hospital and stealing the souls of infants and the elderly, sending them straight to hell.

Can Alex solve this case and save Margaret before it's too late?

About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

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Michelle Young unveils the extraordinary story of Rose Valland, an art historian and resistance spy who gathered intelligence for the Monuments Men during WWII Paris. She explores how this highly decorated war hero faded into obscurity despite her crucial role in tracking Nazi-looted art across Europe.

Book Blurb:

A riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II, The Art Spy uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the world's most treasured masterpieces.
On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself in a desperate position. From the windows of her beloved Jeu de Paume museum, where she had worked and ultimately spied, she could see the battle to liberate Paris thundering around her. The Jeu de Paume, co-opted by Nazi leadership, was now the Germans’ final line of defense. Would the museum curator be killed before she could tell the truth—a story that would mean nothing less than saving humanity’s cultural inheritance?
Based on troves of previously undiscovered documents, The Art Spy chronicles the brave actions of the key Resistance spy in the heart of the Nazi’s art looting headquarters in the French capital. A veritable female Monuments Man, Valland has, until now, been written out of the annals, despite bearing witness to history’s largest art theft. While Hitler was amassing stolen art for his future Führermuseum, Valland, his undercover adversary, secretly worked to stop him.

Author Bio:

Michelle Young is an award-winning journalist, author, and professor whose writing and photography has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Hyperallergic, The Forward, and Narratively. She is a graduate of Harvard College in the History of Art and Architecture and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is a Professor of Architecture. She is the founder of the publication Untapped New York. She divides her time between New York City, Paris, and the Berkshires, Massachusetts.

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Bluesky @michelleyoung.bsky.social

About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

Here’s how I can help:
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Your story deserves to shine, and I’m here to make it happen. Let’s turn your writing dreams into a reality!

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Victoria and fantasy author Erica Rose Eberhart discuss the delicate balance between creating books, promoting them, and maintaining creative energy while avoiding burnout.

• Erica shares details about her debut novel "Tarnished" and the upcoming releases in her Elder Tree series
• The importance of scheduling intentional breaks and "blackout dates" to prevent creative burnout
• How stepping away from social media can actually spark creativity and new book ideas
• Embracing the natural evolution of writing skills and letting go of perfectionism

About the author:
Erica Rose Eberhart is a neurodivergent, disabled writer of queer characters, dragons, girls who grow feathers, and boys who become trees. She resides in the Finger Lakes of New York with her partner and child, and has sampled landscape inspiration from her time living near mountain ranges of New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Having written stories since she could string a sentence together, she now focuses primarily on young adult and adult fantasy, as well as whimsical personal essays. Her work has been featured in Bella Grace Magazine. TARNISHED is her debut novel.

Diminished coming August 2025
The king is dead and a queen has taken the throne.

While magic is now legal, the repercussions of years of magical genocide and prejudice aren't so easily wiped away. With the threat of war looming, Wimleigh Kingdom must look northward, beyond a dangerous forest to a small, seaside town for aid. If they have any hope of surviving the incoming danger of battle from a land where magic triumphs all, they must convince a powerful, unknown prince to join their side.

Ailith and Caitriona return in the second novel of The Elder Tree Trilogy as they seek someone thought lost. Left behind is Greer with her mother, Róisín, to rule the kingdom while threats grow, the city is plunged into darkness, and warnings of death are on the wind.

Can Greer guide her kingdom through this storm, will Ailith and Caitriona find help, or will the war consume all?

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About Victoria:

I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

Here’s how I can help:
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Selena Violet shares the journey of her romance trilogy "What We Can't Have," which started as a poem she wrote for her middle school students and evolved into a three-book series about characters connected by one life-changing song.

• Story revolves around college students Sidney and Austin who reluctantly partner on a music project
• The trilogy follows their "When Harry Met Sally" dynamic with a guaranteed HEA at the end
• Features a plus-size protagonist who faces self-image challenges without focusing on dieting
• First book in the series ends on a cliffhanger, with the full arc resolving in book three
• Began writing seriously during COVID lockdown after years of focusing on other priorities

What We Can’t Have – Hollywood Hot Shots

The right song can touch your soul…

Becoming a songwriter was never on Sydney Campbell’s radar. No; she chose a music major to one day inspire children as an educator. But all that changed when she met him…

Paired together on an important assignment, Austin Mitchell—the country star wannabe—quickly becomes the bane of her existence. Majoring in partying, his carefree attitude causes the duo to clash at every turn.

Despite the tension, they make beautiful music together, creating a song powerful enough to change the trajectory of their lives…

Forced together, the two battle to cope with their budding attraction as they struggle to navigate the pitfalls of the Los Angeles music industry.

Hollywood Hot Shots is the first instalment in the What We Can’t Have Trilogy. This story is a spicy, contemporary, opposites-attract novel featuring a curvy heroine and tortured hero that you can’t help but fall for. If you like compelling characters, light drama, and spicy scenes, then you’ll adore Selina Violet’s coming-of-age adventure.

About the Author

Selina Violet is a writer, entrepreneur, and author. She is passionate about sharing her stories with others. She has lived in several metropolitan areas: Pittsburgh, Chicago, Kansas City, and Washington D.C. Her favorite things include: 80s music and movies, concert tickets, and Hershey Kisses. Selina lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her children and a spoiled rescue dog and cat.

website: https://selinaviolet.com

Instagram: @selinavioletauthor

Tik Tok: @selinavioletauthor

About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

Here’s how I can help:
📖 FREE Manuscript Prep Workbook: Take the stress out of editing with simple steps to organize your revisions.
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📝 Developmental Editing: Get expert feedback that elevates your manuscript, strengthens your story, and polishes your characters.
✍️ 1:1 monthly support Writer's Haven: Revitalize your creativity, map out your novel, and unleash your authentic voice.

Your story deserves to shine, and I’m here to make it happen. Let’s turn your writing dreams into a reality!

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Danielle, author and visibility strategist, shares her journey of re-releasing her book "Beauty in the Breaking" with a new perspective gained from her own healing journey. Her approach balances heavy topics like trauma, domestic violence, and PTSD with hope, demonstrating how characters can overcome their past.

• Revising a previously published book after personal growth and healing
• Using storytelling to show readers they're not alone in their trauma
• Creating relatable characters who move from trauma to healing
• Finding a marketing framework that works across industries while remaining flexible
• Choosing 1-2 social platforms you genuinely enjoy rather than trying to be everywhere
• Building authentic connections through in-person events as well as online presence
• Honoring your current season of life and giving yourself permission to take breaks
• Remembering that the purpose of a first draft is simply to exist
• Finding joy in the writing process rather than making it feel like a chore

Find Danielle at @RoseAvenueLiterary on Instagram and TikTok, or visit roseavenueliterary.com. Her book "Beauty in the Breaking" will be available through Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and all major booksellers in June 2025.

Beauty in the Breaking releases June 6th:

Some love stories don’t begin in perfect places. Some start in the wreckage.

Natalie Morrison learned the hard way that love comes with conditions. After years of witnessing her father’s alcoholism and violence, she’s built walls she has no intention of letting down—not for her mother, not for her best friend, and certainly not for Cameron O’Connor. But as her past comes back to haunt her, she finds herself reluctantly relying on the one person determined to break through her defenses.

Cameron has spent the last three years running—from his grief, from his guilt, from the night that shattered his world. But meeting Natalie changes everything. For the first time since the accident, he sees a reason to stay. To fight. To hope. And as the barriers between them begin to crumble, he finds himself falling for the girl who refuses to let anyone in.

But love isn’t easy for two people still bleeding from their pasts. And when Cameron’s time in Indiana runs out, Natalie is forced to make a choice—keep her heart protected behind the walls she’s always known, or risk everything for a chance at healing.

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About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

Here’s how I can help:
📖 FREE Manuscript Prep Workbook: Take the stress out of editing with simple steps to organize your revisions.
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📝 Developmental Editing: Get expert feedback that elevates your manuscript, strengthens your story, and polishes your characters.
✍️ 1:1 monthly support Writer's Haven: Revitalize your creativity, map out your novel, and unleash your authentic voice.

Your story deserves to shine, and I’m here to make it happen. Let’s turn your writing dreams into a reality!

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🌐 LINKS: Victoria Jane Editorial