#Leni Kauffman

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: For Never and Always by Helena Greer

Today on the site, we’re revealing the cover for For Never & Always by Helena Greer, a pan and demi second-chance m/f romance releasing November 28th from Forever! Here’s the story: One surprise inheritance, two best friends (now bitter exes), and three months to prove he loves her, forever and always, in this swoony second-chance romance for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Ashley Herring…

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#Contemporary M/F Romance #demisexual #For Never & Always #Forever #Helena Greer #Leni Kauffman #Pansexual #Second chance romance

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Leni Kauffman's illustrated book cover for Avery Flynn's Witcha Gonna Do?

#leni kauffman #book covers #witcha gonna do #avery flynn #american literature

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New review! Meeting Millie by Clare Ashton

#book #books #LGBTBooks #lgbt #sapphic #BookLover #BookAddict #BookRecommendations #wlw #SapphicReads #BookReview #lesfic #Clare Ashton #Leni Kauffman

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All rom com writers should hire leni kauffman to illustrate their books.

#leni Kauffman #just #wanna buy all her books #romance novel

[mermaidsirennikita]

I looked up the special edition cover you mentioned and.....oh boy. It's honestly unfortunate how they're trying to shoehorn Ali into a very specific "she writes romance but it's contemporary!!! It's for the normies!! It has a cartoon cover!" niche even when she's writing paranormal stuff. I rly love the idiosyncrasies of genre fiction and trad is just consistently like "ok but what if we ruined it"

Lol, look up Leni Kauffman's statement about it to get angrier.

The thing is that the cover honestly looks like a YA contemporary, and the original cover was good? And communicated exactly the tone the book set: paranormal romance for people who want to try the genre, still a solid PNR, a lil spooky.

If you read Bride thinking you're getting a contemporary romance (and by God lol, a YA/NA contemporary at that) you will be shocked. There is blood and gore and politics and mysteries, and it's honestly a lot racier than anything else Ali has written. And it's not... vanilla........

As I've said before, I think this is her best book, AND it sets up for a sequel/spinoff (lol I subscribe to her newsletter and she introduced as "my first (and maybe last) paranormal" and I'm like... Ali.... I literally saw you setting up a new couple in real time). I think PNR honestly comes more naturally to her than contemporary, and I say that as someone who thinks she writes a good contemporary.

I think this is largely a trend issue and a publisher issue more than anything else, but in the discussion of the cover I find it weird that people don't seem to want to admit that it's also just *not well made*. It's not a good cover. If that were for a contemporary romance, it would still be a shoddily made cover.

#romance novel blogging #i have no issue with leni kauffman as a person aside from i guess her inability to roll with criticism as an artist #but idk just bc those covers are popular doesn't mean we're all obligated to think they're *good*

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For Never & Always (CBR16 #1)

I’m feeling a little rusty in my reviewing skills and kicking myself for not getting this specific review written when I finished the book because I had thoughts and now, I have fewer. I should probably start by saying that I really, truly enjoyed For Never & Always by Helena Greer in much the same way I did reading her previous book Season of Love. For Never & Always is also a queer romance…

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#a little romance #anxiety representation #demisexual representation #fat representation #leni kauffman cover #read harder challenge #second chance romance #second in a series #We Need Diverse Books

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By Leni Kauffman

#solarpunk #aesthetic

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"Roof Garden" by Leni Kauffman.

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REVIEW: Witcha Gonna Do?(Witchington,#1) By Avery Flynn

Looking for the perfect feel-good, steamy, witchy rom-com? Look no further. PUBLISHER: Berkley PUBLICATION DATE: December 6th, 2022. GENRE: Romance / Romantic Comedy A huge thank you to Berkley for providing me with a review copy. Witcha Gonna Do? has been on my radar since it’s cover reveal, which if you follow me on social media you’d know I absolutely adore Leni Kauffman’s work.  I…

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#2022 romance books #2023 romance books #arc review #Avery Flynn #berkley #berkley romance #blog tour #netgalley #netgalley arc #new releases #romance #romance books #Witcha Gonna Do?

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Olivia Dade's Got a Fab Giveaway!

This text is from her website. She doesn't have Tumblr BUT I LOVE HER BOOKS SO MUCH that I want to help get the word out. So, here we go:

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Ship Wrecked washes ashore on November 15th, and I have some amazing preorder bonuses for my readers!

Maria’s one-night stand—the thick-thighed, sexy Viking of a man she left without a word or a note—just reappeared. Apparently, Peter’s her surly Gods of the Gates co-star, and they’re about to spend the next six years filming on a desolate Irish island together. She still wants him…but he now wants nothing to do with her.

Peter knows this role could finally transform him from a forgettable character actor into a leading man. He also knows a failed relationship with Maria could poison the set, and he won’t sabotage his career for a woman who’s already walked away from him once. Given time, maybe they can be cooperative colleagues or friends—possibly even best friends—but not lovers again. No matter how much he aches for her.

For years, they don’t touch off-camera. But on their last night of filming, their mutual restraint finally shatters, and all their pent-up desire explodes into renewed passion. Too bad they still don’t have a future together, since Peter’s going back to Hollywood, while Maria’s returning to her native Sweden. She thinks she needs more than he can give her, but he’s determined to change her mind, and he’s spent the last six years waiting. Watching. Wanting.

His shipwrecked Swede doesn’t stand a chance.

Ship Wrecked comes out on November 15, 2022 and is available for preorder at Amazon, Amazon UK, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Kobo, and Google Play, as well as The Ripped Bodice and Love’s Sweet Arrow! (For more vendors carrying the U.S. edition, please click here.)

Ship Wrecked is also available in German.

There are several Ship Wrecked preorder bonuses, but here’s the queen of them all: I teamed up with Leni Kauffman (my amazing cover artist for the entire Spoiler Alert series) and Avon Books to create an exclusive alternate dust jacket for the book! It’s a gorgeous, heartfelt homage to old-school historical romances and their amazing clinch covers.

Leni tackled an old-school front cover, one featuring a non-zero amount of tasteful nudity, and she slayed it, because she is a goddess. I wrote a breathless, overwrought new blurb appropriate for the occasion and shot a new author photo (which…well, you have to see it) The wonderful people at Avon labored over the rest of the cover and made it equally gorgeous and vintage-looking. You would not BELIEVE how beautifully it came out. The font! The author bio! Even the Avon logo!

Only a limited number of dust jackets will be printed. If you want one, you should reserve it soon. Here’s how:

**While supplies last, if you preorder the Ship Wrecked paperback from Love’s Sweet Arrow, you will receive not only the exclusive alternate dust jacket with original artwork by Leni Kauffman, but also a signed bookplate.**

This offer is open to readers around the world! Non-U.S. customers can get a price quote that includes shipping costs by emailing the store at [email protected]. And no matter where you live, the order must be placed by November 11th.

But maybe you prefer to read ebooks or audiobooks, or maybe you borrow all your books from the library? If so, we have preorder bonuses for you too! (Even if you choose to preorder from Love’s Sweet Arrow for the physical dust jacket and signed bookplate, you might want to add one of these options too, because there’s an extra freebie involved. Fans of Carah and/or Summer from the Gods of the Gates cast: YOUR TIME HAS COME.)

Readers in the U.S. and its territories: If you preorder the paperback/ebook/audiobook and submit your proof of purchase here by 11:59 PM ET on 11/15, you’ll get the dust jacket in digital form AND an all-new short story set in the SPOILER ALERT universe!

International and library readers: If you preorder the paperback/ebook/audiobook OR request that your library buy the book for its collection, submit your proof of purchase or library purchase request confirmation here by 11:59 PM EST on November 15, 2022. If you do, you’ll receive the dust jacket in digital form AND an all-new short story set in the Spoiler Alert universe!

WHEW. I know that was a lot of info, but I hope you’re as excited as I am about everything that’s being offered!

#not my stuff #trying to boost an author i love #buy her shit #read her shit #fat love

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

Exclusive Cover Reveal: Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake

Today on the site I’m thrilled to be revealing the cover of one of my most anticipated rom-coms in the history of literally ever, Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by triple(-category) threat Ashley Herring Blake! This contemporary f/f (bi and lesbian) romance releases February 22, 2022, and here’s what it’s all about: Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her…

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#Ashley Herring Blake #Berkley #bisexual #Contemporary f/f Romance #Delilah Green Doesn&039;t Care #f/f #Katie Anderson #Leni Kauffman #Lesbian

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I am in LOVE with the romance novel covers illustrated by Leni Kauffman.

#romance novels #illustration #leni kauffman #art

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Cinderella

Cinderella #webcomics #pedromoura #lenikauffman #bandasdesenhadas

Uma banda desenhada de Pedro Moura e Leni Kauffman. Apresenta-se a BD “Cinderella”, publicada recentemente na revista CAIS, com argumento de Pedro Moura e ilustrada por Leni Kauffman. Início | BD anterior | BD seguinte

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#Leni Kauffman #O Moura na Cais #Pedro Moura #Portugal

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#leni kauffman #the queen of rom com illustration #tbh i might not read this #but #I still love how leni is collabing with other rom com authors! #her illustrations are the best

[mermaidsirennikita]

Sorry maybe I am not searching for it efficiently enough but where can I find Leni Kauffman's statement about Bride’s alternative cover?

She had it on her Insta and reposted it on her Twitter.

It was basically her running down how the cover wasn't all her idea, she got a brief from the publisher and/or author that laid out the details, and she made it, and hate is bad!!! And how would people feel if their favorite authors got hate???

(The answer: people backlash against authors who snap back at critiques, and I frankly don't think Leni is above that any more than they are. And I didn't see any "hate" against her--not saying it didn't happen, but I saw a lot of rational critique, not even of her work so much as it was about the trends and the general issues with the APPROACH to the cover.)

Here's the thing... Most commissioned artists do work off a "brief" and have for... ever. Michelangelo had a "brief" of sorts when he painted the Sistine Chapel lol. Of course, some artists have more freedom within instructions. But when someone is paying you for a work, they very rarely just go "hey! Go crazy!" They tell you what you want, and you work within those parameters. The QUALITY of the work does depend on you, and Leni's work is very samey stylistically and I think people are beginning to notice that. Which they would, because Leni gets a lot of work, and she is popular, and she is much more KNOWN than most cover artists. She could be more anonymous--but it's clear that she doesn't want to be. That's FINE. That is HUSTLING. I respect THE HUSTLE.

What I don't respect is people whining when their artwork gets critiqued, because no matter what you make--visual art, books, music, poetry--if you are making something for public consumption, not everyone is going to like it.

(I also have an issue with her throwing Ali and the publisher under the bus there, because A) the publisher definitely had more say about the final product than Ali let us be real, why bring her into it even if she liked and advised on it B) it's still Leni's work C) it's just unprofessional to me, and that takes away from me respecting the hustle.)

#romance novel blogging #just. be. silent. when people critique your art.

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Leni

#original #chicken #egg #leni #leni kauffman