Book Shop Chats:

Author Bio Tas Kronby (they/he), also known as Tas The Writer, is a queer, autistic, deaf, and disabled author of color. With a Magna Cum Laude BA in English Literature (2023), Tas brings a unique perspective to their horror writing. 

As an indie author, Tas has published multiple books and short story collections, including their debut novella, Phil The Killer, in July 2023. The sequel to this serial killer thriller, Greta, The Killer, is releasing December 31st, 2024. 

Through their chilling narratives, they explore themes of religious trauma, abuse, discrimination, and societal barriers. Drawing from their experiences as a biracial, queer, and neurodivergent individual, Tas crafts terrifying creatures that sometimes mirror their personal journey. 

Phil, The Killer Phil is a serial killer looking for love. He is a hopeless romantic with most failed relationships ending in death. As he recovers from his toxic relationship with Todd (may he rest in peace), he meets Jenny. She is a woman with exceptional ankles (don’t worry it will make sense later). 

He thinks he found his one and only, but an unexpected snag creates a dramatic adventure in love and death that no one expected. 

Greta, The Killer Phil, The Killer, takes the world into a delusional storm, but from the chaos, a new killer is on the scene. Greta lost her twin sister. They shared everything. They may have shared too much. Now she is searching for Phil, the man she believes is responsible. In her curious quest, she finds a taste for the thrill of the kill. One girl holds her heart and she will do anything to keep her. As the bodies pile, love is born. Greta, The Killer is taking no prisoners. The question is: Will anyone survive her hurricane of love and death? 

Links: 

https://linktr.ee/tasthewriter 

https://tasthewriter.com/

About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

Here’s how I can help:
📖 FREE Manuscript Prep Workbook: Take the stress out of editing with simple steps to organize your revisions.
Grab it HERE
📝 Developmental Editing: Get expert feedback that elevates your manuscript, strengthens your story, and polishes your characters.
✍️ Creativity Coaching sessions: Revitalize your creativity, map out your novel, and unleash your authentic voice.

Your story deserves to shine, and I’m here to make it happen. Let’s turn your writing dreams into a reality!

📱 IG: @editsbyvictoria
🌐 LINKS: Victoria Jane Editorial

Author bio Mel Reilly is a Latina indie author who writes spicy romance with a hint of darkness. She loves just about all romance, but dark romance is her favorite. Every once in a while, she reads mythology retellings, philosophy, or poetry. Aside from writing down all the ideas that pop into her head constantly, she loves reading—no surprise there. Beauty and the beast is her favorite comfort movie, she can never get tired of it and if you ask her to watch it with you she will get overly excited. Whenever she gets the chance, she enjoys exploring new places, especially when she gets to travel out of the state or country. 

book blurb:

The Devil In Disguise; 

Kylo She was just supposed to be another mission. Ever since my life turned into a living hell, the only constant name in my ear is Amaris Santos. She needs to pay for what her family has done, an eye for an eye and all. When she loses her memory it turns into the perfect chance to swoop in and break her.

Amaris I hope I’m not making a big mistake. I’m walking around with only half of my memories, feeling like half of a person and putting the small bit of trust I have in a familiar stranger who offers to help me out. The mysterious guy with midnight eyes and a wicked smirk only confuses me more than my amnesia. I give him the power to burn my world down, I just hope he never lights the match. What will happen when I get my memory back? If I ever do. Will he still be my savior?

LINKS:

• Masked Desires 
• The Devil in Disguise 
• Pandora’s Escape 
• FB group
• Instagram 

About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

Here’s how I can help:
📖 FREE Manuscript Prep Workbook: Take the stress out of editing with simple steps to organize your revisions.
Grab it HERE
📝 Developmental Editing: Get expert feedback that elevates your manuscript, strengthens your story, and polishes your characters.
✍️ Creativity Coaching sessions: Revitalize your creativity, map out your novel, and unleash your authentic voice.

Your story deserves to shine, and I’m here to make it happen. Let’s turn your writing dreams into a reality!

📱 IG: @editsbyvictoria
🌐 LINKS: Victoria Jane Editorial

If social media isn't your jam, this episode is for YOU.

About Lauren:
My (pen)name is Lauren D. Fulter, and I've been travelling dimensions and publishing books since I was 16.
My siblings like to say my only personality trait is writing, but when I'm not stuck behind the daunting computer screen writing about trolls or teenage Councils, I'm off pretending I know how to draw, plotting to move somewhere where it rains, and listening to music. 
In my newest venture, I'm taking on the sunny state of California to pursue a degree in Creative Writing.

Book blurb:
It’s 340 years in the future. Humanity’s darkest secret is reawakening, and the only thing that can stop it is to find the Members of the legendary Council. The problem? They’re all teenagers.

With no memories of how she got there, Nikki stumbles into the small rural region of North Cordell, with nothing by her name and only a glowing green Stone. She intends to listen to the Stone’s instructions to stay safe and out of sight, but a light blinking in the mountain calls to her.

Winding up trapped in the woods during a storm with five other teens, they’re attacked by people in capes and supernatural abilities.

Saved by the mysterious Defending Sergeant, and accused of a ridiculous crime, they have on chance to prove their innocence. With everyone against them, the six reluctant friends must put their differences aside and embrace the truth of their destiny against the very nature of which they know.

Website: laurendfulter.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurendfulter_author/

About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

Here’s how I can help:
📖 FREE Manuscript Prep Workbook: Take the stress out of editing with simple steps to organize your revisions.
Grab it HERE
📝 Developmental Editing: Get expert feedback that elevates your manuscript, strengthens your story, and polishes your characters.
✍️ Creativity Coaching sessions: Revitalize your creativity, map out your novel, and unleash your authentic voice.

Your story deserves to shine, and I’m here to make it happen. Let’s turn your writing dreams into a reality!

📱 IG: @editsbyvictoria
🌐 LINKS: Victoria Jane Editorial

If you love romance, this episode is for YOU. 


Hello I am Kate Louise an Australian romance author. I am new to the author world, but excited to be here! I focus on cosy, low angst romance novels (for now) that take a peak behind the scenes of some of my favourite things in life. I'm thrilled to share my creations, "Side Stage," a story with just enough cosiness to get you through a quiet weekend or a trip away with friends. My books are perfect palate cleansers, something to help get you out of a reading slump, or a breath of fresh air after a heavy series. I'm a fan of all things cosy, particularly during autumn and winter. Give me a good cup of coffee, book to read and a record to listen to and i'm set!

Jump Start blurb Journalist Harper Allenwright is assigned a ‘day in the life’ piece and sent on a week-long visit to the Echidna Racing garage. There, she meets the rising star of GT racing, Thomas Henry-Jackson.
Harper and Thomas have an understanding—they don’t like each other. Thomas despises the media, and Harper is not a fan of Thomas’s rude and dismissive attitude. While Harper tries her best to extract blood from the stone that is Thomas, she quickly works out it is not worth her time.
Together, they’re thrown into the exciting world of the Australian GT Championship and forced to get along, whether they want to or not. He’s scared off several journalists before, but this one is different.
All bets are off once they develop a tentative friendship and finally admit their attraction to one another. As their arguments turn into flirty banter, their walls slowly start to crumble, leaving them both feeling vulnerable and open to trusting each other.

Can Harper trust that Thomas is serious about their blossoming relationship?

Will Thomas be able to sort through his trauma and insecurities and truly let Harper in?

Where people can find me

Instagram: kate_louise_author

Website: katelouiseauthor.com

About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

Here’s how I can help:
📖 FREE Manuscript Prep Workbook: Take the stress out of editing with simple steps to organize your revisions.
Grab it HERE
📝 Developmental Editing: Get expert feedback that elevates your manuscript, strengthens your story, and polishes your characters.
✍️ Creativity Coaching sessions: Revitalize your creativity, map out your novel, and unleash your authentic voice.

Your story deserves to shine, and I’m here to make it happen. Let’s turn your writing dreams into a reality!

📱 IG: @editsbyvictoria
🌐 LINKS: Victoria Jane Editorial

Erin Marie Bassett is a geriatric millennial, wife and mother of two living in Chicago. (A mile west of Wrigley Field but she, like her husband and kids, are St. Louis Cardinal Fans). When she’s not reading or writing romance, Erin helps small businesses and local organizations use the magic words to connect with their communities. She volunteers hard at her kids school and she believes in the power of S.L.O.W. Living.

Her doctor tells her not to but she drinks a lot of coffee. Like, a lot.

Synopsis:

Maggie Collins is taking her relationship status by the reins and putting her trust in D.C.’s latest dating craze. SMS Connect matches it’s users with a text-only device and DCFox is turning out to be everything she could have hoped for in a partner. When stress levels at her job as a speechwriter for a presidential campaign rise her colleague suggests a stress relief solution. When the only person she’s interested in asking turns out to be her professional nemesis, Austin Thorne, the inventor of an AI speech writing system, their professional rivalry turns into a passionate and satisfying arrangement. When the intensity starts to turn into feelings she has to decide between IRL Austin or DCFox. Except they’re one in the same. In this modern retelling of You’ve Got Mail, Maggie and Austin have to decide if their chemistry is stronger than career changes and whether their trust in each other is a solid foundation for a future together. 

The MMC describes it as a "f_cked up version of If You Give A Mouse A Cookie."

Book Boyfriend Quiz: https://erinmariebassett.com/mmc-quiz

@erinmariebassett on Instagram (https://instagram.com/erinmariebassett)

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43912347.Erin_Marie_Bassett

About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

Here’s how I can help:
📖 FREE Manuscript Prep Workbook: Take the stress out of editing with simple steps to organize your revisions.
Grab it HERE
📝 Developmental Editing: Get expert feedback that elevates your manuscript, strengthens your story, and polishes your characters.
✍️ Creativity Coaching sessions: Revitalize your creativity, map out your novel, and unleash your authentic voice.

Your story deserves to shine, and I’m here to make it happen. Let’s turn your writing dreams into a reality!

📱 IG: @editsbyvictoria
🌐 LINKS: Victoria Jane Editorial

Welcome back to Book Shop Chats. In this episode we are chatting with Jasmine Carolina.

Book blurb: 

Lex has been sleepwalking through her life. 

For as long as she can remember, she’s been living someone else's dream: being a doting wife who lives in the white picket fence house. No one expects her to ask for a divorce. Not when her marriage has looked perfect on the outside. 

Her separation brings complex lingering feelings for her soon-to-be ex as they navigate their crushing grief together.

Lex must navigate her new life as a single woman with the help of her sisters and best friends, who offer her reprieve by enveloping her in a metaphorical hug. Magic, music, and tears offer healing as she emerges from this loss as someone completely new. 

Her process proves that wildfires can be built from the bridges burned. 

And she's the flame.

Author links: Linktree

Book links: Ebook and Paperback

About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

Here’s how I can help:
📖 FREE Manuscript Prep Workbook: Take the stress out of editing with simple steps to organize your revisions.
Grab it HERE
📝 Developmental Editing: Get expert feedback that elevates your manuscript, strengthens your story, and polishes your characters.
✍️ Creativity Coaching sessions: Revitalize your creativity, map out your novel, and unleash your authentic voice.

Your story deserves to shine, and I’m here to make it happen. Let’s turn your writing dreams into a reality!

📱 IG: @editsbyvictoria
🌐 LINKS: Victoria Jane Editorial

Welcome to the first solo episode of book shop chats. In this episode I'll be chatting about my writing journey and how I worked at overcoming my fear of admitting I wanted to write a book. 

About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

Here’s how I can help:
📖 FREE Manuscript Prep Workbook: Take the stress out of editing with simple steps to organize your revisions.
Grab it HERE
📝 Developmental Editing: Get expert feedback that elevates your manuscript, strengthens your story, and polishes your characters.
✍️ Creativity Coaching sessions: Revitalize your creativity, map out your novel, and unleash your authentic voice.

Your story deserves to shine, and I’m here to make it happen. Let’s turn your writing dreams into a reality!

📱 IG: @editsbyvictoria
🌐 LINKS: Victoria Jane Editorial

In this episode we are chatting with Sophia Karlson. She is currently loving life writing dark mafia romance novels. 

Website: www.sophiakarlson.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophiakarlson/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sophiakarlsonwriter/

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Sophia-Karlson/author/B07CZ2GVDY

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18032468.Sophia_Karlson

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/sophia-karlson

Bio: 

Sophia writes sensual, emotional, and evocative contemporary romance. Some snark might sneak in. When she's not writing, she's binge-watching the latest TV series, being walked by her beagles, or planning the family's next trip into the wilds. She's ghosted Facebook, is failing at Tiktok, and has little time left for Instagram, however, she hasn't given up (yet). Check out her efforts at @sophiakarlson

About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

Here’s how I can help:
📖 FREE Manuscript Prep Workbook: Take the stress out of editing with simple steps to organize your revisions.
Grab it HERE
📝 Developmental Editing: Get expert feedback that elevates your manuscript, strengthens your story, and polishes your characters.
✍️ Creativity Coaching sessions: Revitalize your creativity, map out your novel, and unleash your authentic voice.

Your story deserves to shine, and I’m here to make it happen. Let’s turn your writing dreams into a reality!

📱 IG: @editsbyvictoria
🌐 LINKS: Victoria Jane Editorial

Raised in Rensselaer County across the Hudson River from Albany, New York’s capital, Anne has made San Francisco home since 1972.  Anne and her husband Jim retired young to travel as much of the world as they could on their bikes, cycling twenty-one countries and pedaling more than 40,000 loaded miles to date. Her first book, Part-Time Nomads, Traveling the World by Bicycle, was released September 27, 2023.  Since writing about her international travels, Anne has been interviewed and reviewed in local and national press and podcasts that you can open and view in links on Media page.

PART-TIME NOMADS, Traveling the World by Bicycle

“A delightful account of a marriage transformed into an extraordinary long-distance cycling partnership.

A memoir chronicling a couple’s devotion to long-distance bicycle touring on a global scale.

In 1997, California couple Anne Breedlove and Jim Eldredge were looking for something special to do for their 20th wedding anniversary when Anne came across an advertisement for self-guided cycling tours in southwestern France. Having spent their honeymoon in Europe, the couple decided to return to their beloved France. This time, they’d be riding on two wheels in the beautiful rural Dordogne region.”

annembreedlove.com

I'm on Instagram: Speedyab6

About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

Here’s how I can help:
📖 FREE Manuscript Prep Workbook: Take the stress out of editing with simple steps to organize your revisions.
Grab it HERE
📝 Developmental Editing: Get expert feedback that elevates your manuscript, strengthens your story, and polishes your characters.
✍️ Creativity Coaching sessions: Revitalize your creativity, map out your novel, and unleash your authentic voice.

Your story deserves to shine, and I’m here to make it happen. Let’s turn your writing dreams into a reality!

📱 IG: @editsbyvictoria
🌐 LINKS: Victoria Jane Editorial

In this episode we are chatting with Mary Belle. HIGHLY recommend checking out her books and social media because she is killing it!

www.marybellebooks.com

www.instagram.com/mary.belle.books

www.tiktok.com/@mary.belle.books

*Mary Belle is an Indie Author of contemporary romance and has sold 3000+ copies of her debut “Italia” Book Collection including “Vivi il Momento” and the sequel, “Bella Vita.”
*With Italian-American roots, she writes unforgettable stories that celebrate the love of relationships and family, the joy of food, and the beauty of romance in its many forms.
*She has been featured on the cover of East Fishkill Living Magazine’s 75th Special Edition issue with her family, as well as a variety of podcasts and YouTube videos, and recently had her first ever Barnes & Noble book signing.
*Mary lives in the Hudson Valley, NY with her rock of a husband and their daughter. 
*Her new motto is, “If you can’t travel by plane, you might as well travel by page.” And, her books provide just that…an escape from reality into beautiful love stories.

Check out her amazing course here: https://marybellebooks.com/book-promotion-course

I created a discount code for your followers/viewers too: $50 off with code VJ50

About Victoria:

Hey there, I’m Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn’t have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!

Here’s how I can help:
📖 FREE Manuscript Prep Workbook: Take the stress out of editing with simple steps to organize your revisions.
Grab it HERE
📝 Developmental Editing: Get expert feedback that elevates your manuscript, strengthens your story, and polishes your characters.
✍️ Creativity Coaching sessions: Revitalize your creativity, map out your novel, and unleash your authentic voice.

Your story deserves to shine, and I’m here to make it happen. Let’s turn your writing dreams into a reality!

📱 IG: @editsbyvictoria
🌐 LINKS: Victoria Jane Editorial