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🧈 Butter Breakdown: Make it Gothic. Make it Romance. Make it Butter!
A Poe-inspired Gothic romance with gorgeous atmosphere, plus today’s lesson on making sure you keep your headline’s promise in your blurb.
Jun 11
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Theodora Taylor
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Toffifee, gummy bears, and why your blurb needs an ingredients list
My torrid love affair with Toffifee has a lot in common with how cold readers come to love our stories.
Jun 9
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Theodora Taylor
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🧈 Butter Breakdown: Don't Forget to Story Bait Your Enemy-to-Baby-Pact Romance
The one trick almost every blurb needs to get that one-click....
Jun 4
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Theodora Taylor
9
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Your Blurb Is Not a Synopsis. It’s a Trailer.
The first rule of Making Sure Your Blurb Doesn’t Suck Club….
Jun 2
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Theodora Taylor
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May 2026
Don’t Bury Your Baby Yoda 🧈 (plus the Butter Blurb Master Class book is everywhere now!)
The Butter Blurb Master Class book is now available everywhere + a fun Butter Breakdown of a cozy oceanside town murder mystery.
May 28
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Theodora Taylor
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Why Guiding Blurbs Are a Chaotic Writer’s Best Friend
I know! I know! You don’t wanna write a Guiding Blurb before you start the rough draft of your book. But hear me out….
May 26
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Theodora Taylor
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🧈 Butter Breakdown: One failed witch, two hot daemons, and a murky hook problem
Let's celebrate the release of the Butter Blurb Master Class book with a Butter Breakdown!
May 21
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Theodora Taylor
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4
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Butter Blurb Book Pre-Sale!
I’m back. With a pre-sale! Yay!
May 19
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Theodora Taylor
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February 2026
[Premium Coupon & Extra Butter Notes] How Shows Like Shrinking Make a Case For Cringey MCs
EXTRA BUTTER: The High-Arousal MC
Feb 24
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Theodora Taylor
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Butter Round Up for February 2026
What I watched in February and the Universal Fantasy Butter you can magpie for your own stories.
Feb 24
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Theodora Taylor
12
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[Premium Coupon & Extra Butter Notes] The Eyes Have It: How This Character Detail Makes Us Obsessed With Ilya Rozanov
Using an "eye arc" to support your couple’s dynamic and add instant emotion to your beginnings.
Feb 17
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Theodora Taylor
2
True Opposites For the Win! [Heated Rivalry]
How a razor‑specific opposites‑attract dynamic hooks us within the first 20 minutes of this global hit show
Feb 17
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Theodora Taylor
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3
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