Sidetracks - April 3, 2025

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Sidetracks is a collaborative project featuring various essays, videos, reviews, or other Internet content that we want to share with each other. All past and current links for the Sidetracks project can be found in our Sidetracks tag. You can also support Sidetracks and our other work on Patreon.

Jodie

1. Jenny's article, Let Them Eat Tropes: Why Romantasy Needs to Grow Beyond Trends explained why I'm just noping out when I read the descriptions of so many books right now.

Renay

2. Women in SFF Month has launched! I love this time of year because Kristen does a great job at gathering a diverse range of voices to feature in writing. Projects like this are why I love blogs so much.

3. Wow! Signal for March 2025 is out. I was busy for the last several weeks and missed the February edition so now I get to catch up on both. They're always a treat.

4. The 2026 Hugo Awards Rec Collection spreadsheet is live. This year I want to focus on: small presses, fan and art categories, and board games.

5. Neon Hemlock Novella Series Kickstarter is live.

6. A little over a year ago, LB editor forestofglory wrote an an essay about cozy SFF that's continued to be popular and cited by others writing about the same topic.

7. A local pal is raising money to help them find a stable home.

8. I feel like I am time traveling back to a version of myself that spent hours watching Days of Our Lives with my gramma during the summers whenever Shawna the Mom drops a new episode of her one-woman familial drama. Sometimes I have to pause videos and go, "Barb is not real. BARB IS NOT REAL."

9. I love this recent release from Sasha Allen.

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Comments

[jajalala]

Thanks for sharing!

[renay]

You're welcome! :D

[tozka]

Great collection of links!

[renay]

Thanks! 💜