Hi Reader! When I was an acquiring editor for a small press, I got to decide which books we published in my category romance lines. (Sounds exciting, right? What it really means is that I had to read a ton of slush, and that's not nearly as fun as it sounds. 🥴💔) And there was this one story that I was SO excited to work on. It was the perfect fit, with all the right tropes and romantic chemistry that 🔥 promised to be off the charts. But when I got the manuscript, the story was kinda boring. I...

Hi Reader! Miranda and I disagreed. On camera. More than once. 😅 And we had SUCH a good time, we're doing it again! Stay tuned for our deep dive of Warrior, Princess, Assassin later this summer! And I'm not talking about the similar-but-different style of disagreement. I'm talking "Are we reading the same book??" disagreement. 👂 She prefers traditional, formal fantasy voice. I loved Fourth Wing's modern slang. (That book felt written for me.) 📖 I loved the Xaden bonus chapters. She thought...

Hi Reader! Confession time. 🙈 I almost DNF'd A Court of Thorns and Roses. (I KNOW. Put down the pitchforks. 😅) It wasn't the writing, and it wasn't because of Feyre. It was the squalor. The starving, the freezing, the hovel house, the hunting-to-survive desperation... 🤮 I read romance to escape. And living through Feyre's medieval survival struggle felt more like a camping trip gone very wrong. ⛺😩 (And I'm barely willing to glamp.) But plenty of readers LOVE that gritty opening. For some of...