Author: Sonia M. Rompoti
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The Question He Asked
On their fifth anniversary, he didn’t give her a gift. Instead, he asked her a question. They were walking along the waterfront after dinner, shoes off despite the cold sand, and Leon stopped walking, turned to her and said: “What’s something you’ve always wanted to do that I don’t know about?” Petra looked at him.…
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The Recipe
He made her grandmother’s soup from a recipe he’d written on his phone three years ago during a fifteen-minute phone call with a seventy-eight-year-old woman in Thessaloniki. He hadn’t told Iris he’d called. He’d just mentioned, after they’d been dating for two months, that her grandmother’s soup sounded incredible from all the stories, and then…
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If You Loved Bride by Ali Hazelwood, Read These Romance Books Next
Every once in a while, a romance book appears that makes readers collectively cancel their plans, ignore their responsibilities, and stay awake until 3 AM muttering, “Just one more chapter.” Bride by Ali Hazelwood was one of those books. It gave readers dangerous attraction, supernatural politics, high emotional stakes, and a hero who somehow managed…
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The Worst Cup
She woke to the smell of coffee. For a moment, still half-asleep on the floor, she just lay there with it. The smell. The specific, familiar, impossible smell of coffee in a place that did not yet have anything — no furniture, no food, no curtains, just two people and a truck parked outside, with…
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The Indie Author Myth Nobody Talks About
One of the biggest lies floating around the indie author world is that success happens quickly if you “just stay consistent.” Technically? Consistency matters. But social media has turned publishing into this strange performance where authors feel pressured to act like every preorder is selling out stadiums while privately eating shredded cheese at midnight wondering…
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The Rise of Cozy Dark Romance
A few years ago, dark romance was all sharp edges. Danger. Obsession. Morally questionable men who looked at laws more like creative suggestions. The fantasy was intensity above all else. And readers still love that. But something interesting has happened recently inside romance spaces, especially on BookTok and Kindle Unlimited. Dark romance has softened emotionally…
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The Weight
She came home from her mother’s house at nine-thirty on a Tuesday with a face that said she was fine and hands that said she was not. Finn could tell the difference. He’d learned it — the way her jaw went slightly tight, the way she set her keys down instead of dropping them, the…
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What My Writing Process Actually Looks Like
People sometimes imagine authors writing in beautiful candlelit silence while inspiration floats gently through the room like a Jane Austen ghost carrying emotional support tea. I regret to inform you this is largely propaganda. My actual writing life usually involves: Especially writing romance….. Because good romance isn’t really about kissing scenes or attractive people dramatically…
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First Aid
She was trying to open a can of tomatoes when the lid slipped and cut her palm. It was small — a thin, stinging line across the heel of her hand — but Mara gasped and immediately started doing what she always did: minimizing. “It’s nothing. Don’t.” She was already heading to the sink. But…
Sonia M. Rompoti, MSc, Bsc 