I need to start with a disclaimer: I am the daughter of an English teacher and a copyeditor; I used editor’s marks, copying my mother, from a young age. I’m the kind of person who reads a published book or a news article and wants to fix a bad sentence or cut the extra words. […]
I didn’t study much history in school, and you won’t catch me reading a gazillion-page biography of Alexander Hamilton or anything, but I love learning about history through fiction (and by going to see the play, Hamilton). I think that’s one of the reasons I love historical romance: it gives me a glimpse of how […]
Boldly going where many other writers have gone before I’ve been trying to provide romance book recommendations and romcom stories with this newsletter, but today I hope you’ll indulge me if I go off script. The thing is, I made a decision at the end of last year to start putting my writing out into […]
I’m making the first story in my holiday collection, The 12 Tropes of Christmas, available to all. The full collection of six holiday romcoms is free to my newsletter subscribers until the end of January. Bonus: When you subscribe, you’ll get a new romcom story every month in 2026. Free subscribers get all the stories; […]
Six free romcom short stories for my subscribers! Happy Holidays, romcom lovers! I’m rolling out a holiday special just for you: 12 beloved holiday tropes in six delicious, funny romcom short stories centered on one magical (fictional) block in San Francisco. All you need to do is subscribe to my newsletter, Rom-Com Ratatouille. Your subscription […]
Holiday romcoms that have turned into perennial favorites. About a dozen years ago, I tried to watch every available holiday romcom in the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was a big task then and impossible now, but I still have a holiday romcom festival this time of year. Watching these movies was what got […]
Reading isn’t a solitary act. Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate—and happy Thursday to everyone else! Here’s a note of thanks for some of the things I gain from being a romance reader all year long. Something for every taste How many romance titles are available for my reading pleasure? Exactly fifty gazillion, with more […]
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood I did not expect to write about Ali Hazelwood again so soon, but then I read Deep End and, well—I went off the deep end, metaphorically speaking. In the author’s note at the beginning, she says it’s her favorite book she’s written, and by the end, it was my favorite […]
Plus her new holiday novella, Love Me Merrily If you, like me, are a fan of romantic comedy with an emphasis on the comedy, you’ll love Alyssa Jarrett’s Glam Fam series. Centered on a group of friends in the entourage of a wealthy influencer, the books are peppered with spicy observations about Bay Area culture, […]
A breakup with a purpose I think there’s a trend bubbling up in the romance world. I’ve started to see “no third act breakup” as one of the selling points for new books. So I’m guessing some people don’t like the third-act breakup and are looking for books without them? And I’m here to say, […]