Tag: writer
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Deleted Scene from The Billionaire’s Curvy Match
The first thing Grace noticed was the silence. Not the peaceful kind. The dangerous kind. The kind that existed only in billionaire houses where everyone was paid enough not to make noise. She stood barefoot in Ethan Reed’s kitchen at two in the morning wearing one of his oversized shirts while rain slammed against the…
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Grayson Wolfe?!? Who?!
If Grayson Wolfe walked into a room, you would notice him immediately. Not because he’s loud. Quite the opposite…. Grayson is the kind of man who speaks softly enough that everyone else instinctively lowers their voice too. Billionaire energy, but specifically the dangerous kind. The kind that comes from control instead of performance. He wears…
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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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Why Readers Crave Emotionally Safe Men in Romance Right Now
There was a time when romance heroes were emotionally unavailable billionaires who communicated exclusively through jaw clenching, property ownership, and the occasional helicopter ride. To be fair, many of them still are. But something has shifted in romance over the last few years, and readers feel it immediately. You can see it all over BookTok,…
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Saltwater
She’d come to Crete to get over a man. She had not expected to meet another one on the first day, on her beach, sharing her particular patch of sun like it was the most natural thing in the world, reading the same book she was reading with the same dog-eared copy of *Giovanni’s Room*…
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Sunday Pancakes
The first time Nora realised she was completely, irreversibly in love with her best friend, she was watching him make pancakes in her kitchen at seven in the morning wearing her spare set of keys on his wrist like a bracelet, because he’d forgotten them there last Sunday and hadn’t given them back, and she…
Sonia M. Rompoti, MSc, Bsc 