{"id":340133,"date":"2026-07-14T21:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/340133\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:53:13","slug":"steamy-lit-hosts-a-free-romantasy-fest-in-palm-harbor-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/340133\/","title":{"rendered":"Steamy Lit hosts a free Romantasy fest in Palm Harbor this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" data-attachment-id=\"358308\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/steamy_lit-photo_by_carole_bell-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steamy_lit-photo_by_carole_bell-edited.png?fit=1176%2C882&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1176,882\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"steamy_lit-photo_by_carole_bell\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steamy_lit-photo_by_carole_bell-edited.png?fit=780%2C585&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/steamy_lit-photo_by_carole_bell-edited-1024x768.png\" alt=\"bookshelves accented in pink at Steamy Lit in Tampa\" class=\"wp-image-358308\"  \/>Credit: Carole Bell<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between gay hockey guys and sexy dragons, romance has the publishing world in a chokehold. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tampa\u2019s romance hot spot, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/arts\/steamy-lit-south-tampas-bookish-home-for-romance-will-expand-store-footprint-next-month-19482114\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steamy Lit<\/a>, hosts an author panel and pop-up shop celebrating all things Romantasy this weekend at East Lake Library. Authors L.L. Campbell, Ligia N. Cushman, Luna Laurier and Allie Shante will speak on a panel about the power of horny writers. Plus, themed activities and a spicy raffle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/celebrating-romantasy-author-panel-and-pop-up-shop-with-steamy-lit-bookstore-21364696\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There is no cover for Celebrating Romantasy on Saturday, July 18 in Palm Harbor.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/481905907_122167888076361725_7312377503633095151_n__1_.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/july-09-15-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 09 \u2013 15, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSelene San Felice is managing editor of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Prior to joining CL in 2025, she started the Axios Tampa Bay newsletter and worked for her hometown paper, The Capital in Annapolis,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/selene\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Selene San Felice\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Carole Bell Between gay hockey guys and sexy dragons, romance has the publishing world in a chokehold.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[139770,109421,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-340133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-romance-novel","tag-steamy-lit","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}