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Penny Reid
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Penny Reid
@ReidRomance
NYT, WSJ, USAT bestselling author of 'Dr. Strange Beard' & 'Dating-ish.' Owner/Publisher @SmartyPantsRom Repped by @BookCaseAgency
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- For authors, re: trigger and content warnings. My middle kid and I were talking about content and โtriggerโ warnings in books. She said, from her perspective, if someone includes a trigger warning for something like suicide and self-harm, she can pretty much take for granted--
- Replying to @ReidRomance--surprise readers with it because they wouldnโt want to be surprised by it.โ That blew my mind. She is so right.
- Replying to @ReidRomanceโIf an author has first hand experience with self-harm or thoughts of suicide, or attempted suicide, then theyโll make sure thereโs a content warning because they know what stumbling upon that content can do to someone who has been through it. They wonโt want to--
- Replying to @ReidRomance--disclosed because the author considers them โspoileryโ) then those concepts are almost always used for shock value and as trauma porn, and are furthermore not represented authentically or realistically within the story. She then went on to say the following--
- Replying to @ReidRomance--that those topics wonโt be used for shock value or as โtrauma pornโ in the story, and will be dealt with authentically and realistically. But, she said, if the book doesnโt include the content warning (and if the book has those concepts within, but they arenโt--
- I usually read/respond to all my reader mail. I'm going to stop. Do me a favor, y'all. If you hate a book, leave a review and/or return the book. Don't send hate mail to the author, questioning their integrity and calling them evil. It's a book, not summoning spell for Satan.
- Please, stop feeling shame when enjoying books about love. Normalize the enjoyment of happy endings, celebrate them, recognize them as valuable. We've normalized despair as more meaningful and valuable (than hope) for far too long. . . is my opinion.
- So proud to live in this city. @UWVirology challenging the @CDC and creating their own #COVID19 test, ramping up capacity. @Canlis adapting and changing to community needs. #SeattleSymphony broadcasting performances for free #WeGotThisSeattle
- Most recently at a kindergarten moms get together, someone said, โOh! Arenโt you that mom who writes those trashy books?โ Honestly, it just made me feel so sad for her. Poor pumpkin.
- Replying to @AuthorCFeehanChristine, If you do this, and if @romancewriters doesn't take action to stop you, we'll have to write a Dark Leopard Ghostwalker Carpathian anthology to raise money to stop you. Just FYI. -Cocky Collective
- I just typed "THE END" on my 29th book. It's always a little weird, and sad, and wonderful. โฅ๏ธ
