Anna Richland

It's release day for CHECKING OUT THE LIBRARIAN, my spicy gay romantic comedy! I hope you'll love Connor (the big golden retriever) and Jonathan (a very prickly librarian) as much as I do. This is a great book for your weekend! Available in Kindle/KU: www.amazon.com/Checking-Out...

Peak Seattle: After playing two hours of pickleball at North Seattle College gym, I dropped my completed paper ballot in the collection box in the college parking lot, drove home in an EV, then had a fish taco and a West Coast IPA. I love Seattle and Washington State.

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Romance writer: [add sex scene here]

Bought myself a nice looking trilobite today. #fossils #morocco

Memory eternal.

Sitting here Sunday morning with my coffee and loving my spouse a lot. He drank his coffee black so that I could have the last bit of the half and half. I realized that was a very, very Connor thing for him to do. (Connor's one of the heroes in my new release CHECKING OUT THE LIBRARIAN).

Celebrated my new book release with an absolutely delicious chocolate ganache cake, thanks to my even sweeter spouse. It was my best release yet, thank you to everyone who is reading Checking Out the Librarian and enjoying Connor and Jonathan as much as I do. #booksky #romancebooks #writerlife

I'm on a plane about to take off, but... The Goodreads giveaway for Checking Out the Librarian ends today, and the book is live in Kindle on Friday! Sign up for the giveaway at this link, or go to Goodreads giveaway page and sort by LGBTQ+ and "ending soon". www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

Just here watching toe beans and scratchy lil pink tongues

Well I burned my own toast this morning (because *someone* had moved the slider?) So I guess it's a day of self-love!

I've had a bit of a stressful morning and this is a lovely art process to watch several times in a row. I have to remember that I'm not just an author, I'm also a painter - and maybe after I finish one more author business thing, I'm going to pull the paints out today.

I love driving past railyards (there are many places here in Seattle where I can see trains), looking at the cars from everywhere,, and the gorgeous art. Because it is art. And i'm glad to know that there's a certain respect between the artists and the railyard workers. Nice.

Paging through an old sketchbook, I found these little illustrations from 2023, before I got serious about restarting my writing career and took my old books back from my former publisher. I can feel the need to be writing in these captions, hiding behind my art. So glad I am doing both now.

My spouse is now a citizen so I'm free to share more of my opinions on the Internet. This is absolute perfection. F*ck the stupid tariffs & yes it's Lake f*cking Ontario & Canada was the greatest ally any nation has ever had in the history of the world. Our stupidity is boundless.

Reminder to frequent flier maximizers in Seattle to re-enroll for this year's iteration of Delta's mile-per-passing yard (I think you have to have a WA state IP address, sorry!). 12status.com

This just made me feel really good today. I hope it gives you a little happiness bump too.

Don't let the marketing crush, drown, destroy and steamroll the actual writing. You can market later, but the unwritten book doesn't appear by magic. Keep writing. Protect the writing time.

I was a little Midwestern Republican child when 9 to 5 came out, and I never for a moment thought Dolly was "neutral" about anything. Loved her and everything she stood for, even back when I thought differently. I changed, and that only made me admire her more.

I'm working on print formatting for Checking Out the Librarian! I printed the first couple chapters to see how the font looks at life-size. The print version will be 5.5 x 8.5 (and 500+ pages, similar size to Father Material by Alexis Hall.) This is starting to feel so real. #mmromancebooks

That lonely ND is not calling to me the same way Hawaii is, that's for sure. My distinction between visited and spent some time was if I'd been there on more than one trip of more than a couple days each, it was spent some time. whereidlive.com/s/jpmme9p6

Connor and Jonathan & their pets & friends are ready for pre-order (or for you to WIN on Goodreads). There's a bit of mistaken identity at the beginning b/c they meet in Portland for a hook up and don't say that they live in Eugene, OR ... and then Connor walks into Jonathan's library. Oops.

My lock screen was so embarrassed by my fandom that it decided to spare my feelings and lie to me.

Gutted by the episode of #rideordie we watched tonight. The stuff in Geneva. Such good acting by the whole group. Is there a book, or is it original for TV?

For my first book, I spent so many hours trying to figure out how to dispose of a body on a Transatlantic flight. All the women I know have thought about body disposal. Have you?

I feel for her, I do. I still miss my 1988 Brother Selectric typewriter with hard memory card capability. I learned my lesson though, and still have my fully functioning 1997 Toshiba Toughbook. Bounce that off someone's head, they'll go down.

Hi, I'm the antibiotic with a name that rhymes with penicillin, the one that you're deathly allergic to, but maybe you should try me? I go by ampicillin and I'm new here and you live 35 minutes from a hospital in 1983, so why not give me a whirl?