Category: Author’s Alley
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The Drawer
It started as a joke. “You should just leave a drawer at my place,” Camille had said, three months into whatever they were, pulling a wrinkled shirt from her overnight bag. “Like a normal person.” Remy hadn’t said anything. He’d just looked at her with that look — the one she’d learn to call his…
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5 Romance Books That Understand Curvy Women Deserve Epic Love Too
There’s something deeply exhausting about reading romance as a curvy woman and realizing the heroine’s entire personality is “surprised a man likes her.” Like. Please. We are tired. Romance readers deserve stories where curvy women are desired openly, loved loudly, and treated like the main character from page one instead of a self-esteem recovery project…
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Why Plus-Size Romance Still Matters
There’s something deeply strange about the way society talks about women’s bodies. Women are expected to love themselves, but not too loudly. Be confident, but not visible. Be desirable, but only within very specific rules created by industries that profit from insecurity. And romance books? For a very long time, they reflected that. The heroine…
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What Writing Romance Taught Me About Grief
People assume romance authors spend their days thinking about kisses in the rain, witty banter, and shirtless fictional men leaning against expensive cars for absolutely no reason besides “vibes.” And technically… yes. But if you write romance long enough, especially emotional romance, you eventually realize you are not actually writing about love. You’re writing about…
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A Small Change to the Daily Romance Stories (And What’s Coming Next)
After months of sending daily romance stories directly to inboxes, I’ve decided to make a small change to how things will work moving forward. Don’t panic. The fictional men are not being taken away from you…. The stories are staying. But instead of receiving them automatically by email every day, the daily short romances will…
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New Year’s at the Edge of Everything
Daily Dose of Romance – Short Stories for FREE | They’d both come to the party single, which was the setup. They’d both been ignoring each other since August, which was the context. And now it was eleven fifty-eight on the thirty-first of December and they were on the balcony while the rest of the…
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How You Ask for Things
Daily Dose of Romance – Short Stories for FREE | She’d been in therapy long enough to know her own patterns, which meant she saw it happening and still couldn’t stop it — the pulling away, the getting quiet, the performing fine at exactly the moment she most needed to not be fine. It was…
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Hands
Daily Dose of Romance – Short Stories for FREE | She’d been painting his hands for three weeks before she admitted what she was doing, and by then she had seven canvases and a problem. Rafael was a sculptor. He used his hands the way other people used language — with precision and intention and…
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What We Grow Toward
Daily Dose of Romance – Short Stories for FREE She’d moved back to her hometown for all the sensible reasons — cost of living, her mother’s knee, the particular pull of familiarity when the world got too fast — and had not, in all her planning, accounted for the fact that her childhood best friend…
Sonia M. Rompoti, MSc, Bsc 