Riptide Publishing

We have a major author milestone coming up! Tsunami Books in Eugene OR is hosting us for an author reading/discussion night for Pride Month!🌈 If you're free at 5pm on 6/27, it would mean the world if you came out! (pun intended) 🥰 It'll be fun, it'll be chill, it'll be queer!

Happy 2nd book birthday to our debut romcom, and a happy 4 months to its spicy sequel LESSONS IN BALANCE 🎂🎊🎉🍾 We're so glad these books and characters are out in the world for everyone to enjoy! LIT: a.co/d/0hn8phSc LIB: riptidepublishing.com/produc…

$0.99 for any book is already a steal, but it feels downright unlawful to get LESSONS IN TIMING (odd couple, grumpyxsunshine, star-crossed roommates) practically free! For a limited time only from ✨️Feb 3 to Feb 6✨️ anywhere ebooks are sold! Amazon: a.co/d/01bQqiWw

What's better than a quirky gay romance in time for Valentine’s Day? How bout a quirky gay romance in time for Valentine’s Day 🎉FOR ONLY A DOLLAR?🎉 Get our odd couple/star-crossed roommate romance for practically free THIS WEEK ONLY!!! Amazon: a.co/d/01bQqiWw

Happy holidays and happy celebration of the release of LESSONS IN BALANCE, our second queer romcom from @RiptideBooks! 🥳✨️ Snuggle up with a wintery romance continuing the story of Armand and Lucas settling into a new relationship in London! riptidepublishing.com/collec…

How do you approach writing 🌶️spicy🌶scenes? Do you need to stay in your characters' heads or get out of them? There's plenty of spice and romance in LESSONS IN BALANCE, new from @RiptideBooks🌈 a.co/d/diiq4xl

We try not to read comments on our books, but there are such lovely reviews for our debut queer romcom LESSONS IN TIMING that we couldn't help but share! 🤩 Catch up now, because the sequel novella LESSONS IN BALANCE releases tomorrow! 👀🥳 riptidepublishing.com/collec…

(Mariah Carey voice) ✨️It's TIIIIMMMEEE!✨️ LESSONS IN BALANCE is now officially out in the world! This sexy lil gay novella is the second project Sylvia Barry ever wrote together and now it's the second published 🥰 riptidepublishing.com/collec… #mmromance #bookrelease

Two more sleeps until LESSONS IN BALANCE drops! 🥰 Armand & Lucas explore their brand new relationship in London, where secrets lurk around every corner of Armand's past and Lucas’s present, threatening the delicate balance of their budding romance... 👀 riptidepublishing.com/collec…

Friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, Grumpy x Sunshine... so many great ship dynamics for romance but which is your favorite to write? We have a personal bias ourselves... 👀🥰 Preorder softie grump x bitchy sunshine book: LESSONS IN BALANCE, out 12/22! riptidepublishing.com/collec…

🌶🔥Spicy snippet alert!🔥🌶 Armand welcomes Lucas to his London flat 👀 LESSONS IN BALANCE releases 12/22: riptidepublishing.com/collec… #mmromance #spicybooks

Tell us about the villains you like to write! Are they theatrical and larger than life or subtly terrifying? 😈 We had a lot of fun writing the villain of LESSONS IN BALANCE, coming out 12/22! 👀🥰 riptidepublishing.com/collec…

Do you use AI to write? We here at Sylvia Barry are STRONGLY ANTI-AI--both our covers are made by humans, and every word we write is from our own brains, that's the SB promise🤚💯 Pre-order the entirely human-made book LESSONS IN BALANCE, out 12/22! riptidepublishing.com/collec…

What's Sylvia Barry's secret to cowriting romance books? We wrote a blog article about how we met and how we started writing together! Check it out: medium.com/@draftingthroughl… And be sure to preorder our queer romance, LESSONS IN BALANCE, out 12/22/25! riptidepublishing.com/collec…

Could you take your characters in a fight, or are you getting your ass kicked? LESSONS IN BALANCE is now available for preorder! Get your London gays in time for the holidays! 🥰🔥 riptidepublishing.com/collec…

What's cozier for the holidays than another gay romance from Yours Truly? 🥰 LESSONS IN BALANCE is the immediate sequel to LESSONS IN TIMING, but can be read separately, and is chock full of more tropes and secrets and spicy goodies 🔥 Preorder: riptidepublishing.com/collec…