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Attn: How You Get the Girl Book Box customers

July 2, 2025 by lianyu 2 Comments

Attn: how you get the girl customers Public service announcement, icon of an open book

Update: I need your contact info! If you missed my last newsletter, I revealed in it that I have big plans for next year! I’d also like to do something for everyone who’d previously bought my book box from How You Get The Girl. Unfortunately, I don’t have any access to anyone’s contact details, so […]

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Audiobooks on Spotify Premium

January 26, 2024 by lianyu Leave a Comment

Listen to my novels in audiobook format without paying more using Spotify Premium

Filed Under: Blog, My books, Resources Tagged With: audiobooks, captive in the underworld, spotify, the wicked and the willing

Review – Song of Stars

April 3, 2023 by lianyu Leave a Comment

Cover of Song of Stars by Rae D. Magdon

Song of Stars is an F/F fantasy romance with childhood friends to rivals to lovers. If you were ever in band, competitive sports, debate club, or anything else where you were judged harshly as a kid/young adult, this book is for you! It’s spicy but sweet, prickly but affectionate.

Filed Under: Blog, Fantasy, Reviews Tagged With: mc-sapphic, setting-fantasy

Chapter titles in The Wicked and the Willing audiobook

February 1, 2023 by lianyu Leave a Comment

Audiobook cover: The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan, performed by Emily Woo Zeller; an F/F gothic horror vampire novel. One of them will die for her... Dark background with red acanthus and blood dripping down, Fearful young Chinese woman wearing white qipao.

The audio for The Wicked and the Willing is currently missing chapter title metadata on Audible. It might also affect some other stores, but I can confirm that the Spotify version is working. I’ll try to get it fixed, but hopefully it won’t affect your listening experience as each chapter title is narrated at the […]

Filed Under: Blog, My books

Ending choices for The Wicked and the Willing

May 2, 2022 by lianyu Leave a Comment

3 women against a blood red moon. text: one of them will die for her...

My gothic horror vampire novel has two endings included in the book, and a bonus third ending for newsletter subscribers. Here’s what people having been choosing so far:

Filed Under: Blog, My books, Resources Tagged With: lianyu's books

F/F dark romance books

May 1, 2022 by lianyu 1 Comment

text: novel recommendations / F/F dark romance / a short reading list. background image: cherries

Here’s a short list of F/F novels (>50k words, some over 100k) with dark romance elements (that is, with abusive romantic relationships but with a happy ever after or happy for now ending).

Filed Under: Blog, Resources Tagged With: genre-lesbian romance, mc-non-virginal love interest, mc-sapphic, mc-slave, setting-fantasy, setting-fantasy asia, setting-sci-fi, trigger-body horror, trigger-content warning, trigger-gore, trigger-power dynamics, trigger-sexual assault, trope-closed door romance, trope-enemies to something, trope-hea/hfn

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