🍯🌺 Confessions of a romance author: The 'Boyfriend Gap™' is real
Published 23 days ago • 4 min read
Hey there, romance realist,
Ever try explaining to your significant other that, yes, you still love him, but no, he’ll never live up to a tattooed Navy-SEAL-turned-concert-pianist who dirty-talks in iambic pentameter?
Mr. Mav didn’t appreciate my PowerPoint—especially the slide titled “The Boyfriend Gap™.”
Apparently being able to find the remote in under three minutes isn’t the same as brooding competence under fire. Who knew?
But it's fine, because his other leading lady, Emby was ready and waiting to comfort him in his time of need. (Bad wife-y.)
Anyway, while reality keeps reality-ing, the fictional fellas are thriving.
Bookish News
On Chord of War (Sean & Jade, West Coast Entanglement #3) My next enemies-to-lovers masterpiece, starring a rock-goddess-wannabe and her guitar-playing-ex-SEAL nemesis are 48% drafted. Sean just discovered Jade’s secret playlist titled “Songs to Punch Sean In the Throat To.” Ahh, romance—she’s subtle.
This will be my first full-length novel (already beyond 60k words at last check), and I can't WAIT for you to read it!
Release-day ebook will launch into Kindle Unlimited, because I, too, enjoy commitment-phobia: KU for now, maybe wide later, maybe Mars—who can say?
Series Shuffle (a pivot worthy of a ballerina)
• Rogue Series & West Coast books: sliding back into KU for a 90-day term—wide just wasn’t wooing the masses.
• However, my direct store now carries PAPERBACKS (cue happy book sniffers). So any of my KU only books, theoretically should still be available as paperback, as long as I have my shite together. TBH, no promises. One-woman-op, remember?
• Luna Rose’s sweet novellas remain gloriously wide, because apparently Hallmark vibes thrive everywhere. Who knew?
ARC ALERT: Prove Your Devotion!
Reply to me here with your most creative display of fictional-boyfriend dedication: a meme, haiku, or interpretive grocery receipt—whatever makes me snort-laugh.
Top entries snag early copies of Grumpfest as soon as it's ready for eyes. Don't worry, if you're already on my ARC team and prefer to be a party pooper and not play, you'll still get notified in case you'd like a copy too. Grudgingly. 🧐
Also, writing one of the final chapters of Grumpfest, and wondering why real men don’t come with bonus epilogues. 🤔
P.S. Need a paperback fix? Bees & Blooms now stocks all Rogue and West Coast titles in dead-tree glory. Go pet them.
P.P.S. Book-boyfriend survey time: which trope makes your knees the weakest—grumpy/sunshine, enemies-to-lovers, or “oops, only one bed”? Hit reply with your pick and a GIF that captures your exact reaction. (I’ll be shamelessly mining answers for future material, obviously.)
P.S.S. Missed previous editions of this newsletter? Find them here.
P.P.S.S. Booking signing in Tampa is coming up FAST (July), and I'm ordering books now. Can't WAIT, hope you can make it out!
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Grumpfest
By Honey Mavryck
He’s the grump with a broken past. She’s the sunshine that might just save him—if his baggage doesn't destroy them first.
“I’d rather fight with you than make love with anyone else.”
— The Wedding Date
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