Another fabulous indie bookstore match for To Love Like Venus. Lost The Plot is a new mobile bookstore “that sells new & used adult fiction, prioritizing stories by and about underrepresented voices… sold in a charming converted step van around the Greater Seattle area… Our mobile bookstore is full of incredible stories, many of which…

Honored that the lauded Auraist substack included To Love Like Venus in their list of literary fiction under consideration for “The best-written recent releases»“. “Auraist’s main purpose, then: to cherrypick from prize shortlists, end-of-year lists, and major reviews the most stylishly, most humanly written books, and in doing so to help support those who write them.“…

Find To Love Like Venus in Latinx in Publishing’s March 2026 notice of releases, along with other fun books. Is this how you discovered the book? You can order To Love Like Venus through their Bookshop link.

To Love Like Venus is available at New York Public Library! Available in ebook on their website and Libby app. Check it out! Maybe with enough demand we can get them a hardcover. https://nypl.overdrive.com/media/12573073

Publishers Weekly selected To Love Like Venus to be featured in the BookLife’s Indie Romance. I explore the book’s Venusian prompt in this brief author statement. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/pw-select/article/99754-indie-spotlight-february-2026.html

It’s great to keep getting messages like number one book trending in Literary Fiction and two in Sci-fi Cyberpunk in IngramSpark and today’s news that To Love Like Venus is featured in Ingram’s Indie Early Buzz catalog for March releases!

Some publishing folks are organizing a Publishing for Minnesota auction. From their IG: “We are a group of authors, illustrators, agents, and editors who believe the time is now for collective action. In response to ongoing ICE raids and federal actions causing harm to immigrant communities and our neighbors across the country, we are organizing…