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Edward Gorey - Dracula "Grand Curtain"

stage set design for 'Dracula, the Musical', Martin Beck Theatre, 1977

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Leo Gestel - Autumn (1909)

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The Witches and the Singing Mice' by Jenny Nimmo, illustrated by Angela Barrett

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'Father Owl' by Via Fang

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'Cats and Kittens' by Edgar S. Werner, 1906

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leverage season 1 plot

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Ok but “six times we almost kissed” being like an ode to fanfic and readers not writing fanfic about it makes me frustrated. Someone needs to make it happen because there’s so much about Penny and Tate’s story that could be unraveled (not saying the book isn’t enough, it’s perfect!! It’s just that I can’t get enough of them) that it’s like a crime not having fanfic about them

Oh, this is so sweet! And I do agree, there are lots of fic opportunities there :D Getting to write their cute little first date for the US paperback was fun!

In my experience, fandoms forming around contemporary books like mine to the point of there being like, even more than a dozen fics after years is VERY unusual. So it does make it so special when there IS fic! I am always so flattered when I see there's been an addition to the Tess Sharpe tag on Ao3, for my original books and my IP books. Even though I cannot read them as the canon author, just knowing they exist is a total delight.

-TS

#tess is a delighted dinosaur #asks #6 times we almost kissed #tess sharpe

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Back on my bisexual drama train, Romantic Thriller style.

#tess sharpe #books #queer books

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oh to be tucked away in a colorful little tent.

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Here is a full flock of Meatballs for your viewing pleasure. Malice accepts bribes.

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Sooooooo happy with the news that we’re getting a new chapter of “six times we almost kissed” in US paperback. Do you have any idea of how it will work with international readers? I’m from Brazil and I would love to buy the new version when it gets launched. Are we getting ebook versions or something?

So it will just be in the US edition print wise. One of the reasons I was able to put it in the US one is because the hardback gets phased out after a year or two in the US and then a paperback is published and I was able to "catch" the paperback edition before it went to print (this was very last minute. I almost missed printing by like a week).

For a translation, what would need to happen is that a publisher would need to sell out the entire print run they've already printed, they would need to also WANT to do another print run (not always a thing they want to do!), then re-format the short story into a new print run, and pay to translate it and that is likely beyond something they would want to do. I'm sorry about that! Publishing a book is fiddly, adding to it after the fact is even more so!

But! Since I don't think it's fair only my US readers get it, I plan on releasing the short story to download via my newsletter sometime this summer or fall. It will be in English though because translations are beyond me! Newsletter Sign Up: bit.ly/writecookrepeat

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I read “six times we almost kissed” for the first time this month and it touched me in such a way I cannot simply describe it with words. I read it three times already, the whole thing about Penny and her relationship with her mother just resonated with me and Tate and Penny are so tender and sweet with each other I don’t think I ever read a romance that made me feel this way, so thank you for writing it!! Also, what are the chances of us getting some sort of sequel? I would love to see more of them, their first date, first time, the struggle about their different ideas of future, anyway, I love them, love the book and love your writing. Thank you for being awesome and bringing Penny and Tate to my heart.

Oh you are super kind, I'm so pleased it spoke to you! So many of you have asked me if I will write more in the 6 TIMES universe and I am always so flattered and I always feel so bad when I say: I'm sorry, it's a stand-alone. I know it's kind of strange to say "I don't really write sequels as Tess Sharpe" when I'm about to release a sequel to another book in the UK a few weeks and the US a few weeks after that, but that one is my outlier in a big way. I really prefer to write stand-alones and my next 5 books in my Tess Sharpe writing life are pretty much mapped out thematically and they're all stand-alones as well. The US paperback of 6 TIMES which will be out May 14 has a bonus short story about Penny and Tate's first date at Ross Dress for Less (a place of chaos and discovery) and it explores the shopping game that Tate and Anna used to play when Tate was a child, which is a plot point I had to cut from the second draft of the book for length.

It is a very short story I want to stress because we had to fit it in the space we had (paper is expensive!!) but I am really fond of it and I was so happy to be able to slip it in there for everyone who wanted to see a little more after the kiss <3

-TS

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Details from Arthur Rackham’s illustration “And now they never meet in grove or green,” (1908) from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

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Aukusti Uotila (Finnish, 1858 - 1886) - Moonlit Landscape

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John Ames Mitchell (1845-1918), 'From The Depths', ''Appeal To Reason'', #579, Dec. 29, 1906

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@fatphobiabusters

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'The Court of Faerie' by Thomas Maybank, 1906