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Tools for the people who read and write romance.

For love stories worth writing, drafting, loving, and rereading.

For the stories you can’t stop thinking about, and the ones you haven’t written yet. Tools for a reading and writing life you love.

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courtship

Send your ARCs, find the reviews, keep the readers.

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LiveFree, foreverfor writers

flourish

A work skin editor for AO3. Drafts never leave your device.

  • 22 skins, ready to drop in.Texts, group chats, posts, letters, and emails, right in the chapter.
  • You get the code, not a picture.Export to AO3 as HTML and work skin CSS.
  • Drafts stay with you.Saved on this device. Save a backup whenever you like.
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LiveFree, foreverfor readers

tryst

One private place for everything you save while you read.

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Comingfor writers

the exchange

Read for others, and they’ll read for you. A beta read swap for romance writers.

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Example content. The readers, works, books, and reviews shown are made up. Coming tools are shown as they are being designed.

Quizzes

Comingfor readers

the nervous system

A romance personality test. Find your type, and get book recs to match.

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Comingfor readers

slow pour

A quiz that pairs the books you love with a wine to open while you read.

romance signal

The data I wished I’d had when I came to publishing as an outsider. Checked, sourced, and free.

Counted by handTraced to the startDocumented at the source

Read the research

Before each premiere, August 2023 to November 2025

Are fan works just as strong an adaptation signal as mainstream Goodreads popularity?
Goodreads ratings Fan works per 1,000 ratings
The Deal1,004,4200.02
Red, White & Royal Blue790,0583.8
Heated Rivalry41,58213.6

Goodreads ratingsFan works per 1,000 ratings

  1. The Deal1,004,420
  2. Red, White & Royal Blue790,058
  3. Heated Rivalry41,582
  1. Heated Rivalry13.6
  2. Red, White & Royal Blue3.8
  3. The Deal0.02

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A little note from the founder

Hi, I’m Mariah. This site started as a personal reading and formatting tracker, and I polished the tools up to share so more great love stories get told. If threnne gives you one less excuse to talk yourself out of writing, then it’s done its job.

Mariah