About US

Welcome! I’m Star Tavares. I’m queer, nonbinary, and intersex, and I use they/them pronouns. My hubby Jake is LGBTQIA+ too, as is our duck, name of Duck—he’s super-ducking awesome. He likes to call himself an award-winning duck because we wrote a screenplay about him that won some awards, and who are we to argue?

We used to publish in the romance genres, but after we came out, we thought romance didn’t want us anymore. But you know what, toots? We were wrong.

Now we’ve rebuilt our confidence and are back to living our Romancey Pants life, writing, reviewing romance movies, reading romance novels, and doing a whole lot of stretching.

Want to know more about Star’s writing credits? Under another name, Star has published romance stories, novels, and novellas with presses like Harper Collins and Cleis, and has won awards for their shorter works from the likes of Glimmer Train, Screencraft, and Narrative, where they also worked as an editor. More recently, Star’s nonfiction about gender identity has appeared in The New York Times and at Huffington Post Personal.

Please follow us here for romance reviews and personal rambles. And thanks so much for reading.

Let’s do this!

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Recent Posts

• Synchronicities: A Love Story
• Why Heated Rivalry Boldly Refuses The Bigot Sandwich
• It’s Gorgeous Romance. But Where The Duck Are Those Sex Scenes?
• Why Characters Who Lie in Novels Make My Flippers Sad
• A Bowl of Self-Love Cereal (Quacker Pops Edition)

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