Why choose romance offers something rare: abundance, emotional generosity, and love without forced scarcity. In these essays, I reflect on reverse harem dynamics, devotion without competition, and stories that refuse to ask women to choose less than what they desire. If why choose romance feels like permission rather than indulgence, you’ll recognize yourself here.
In many romances, “happily ever after” is all tied up neatly at the end with a kiss, a vow, or a door closing behind two people who have chosen to commit to one another. But I have always been interested in what happens after the music swells and the page turns. A promise made during…
If Between Heaven and Earth has been waiting on your TBR while you decide whether to enter the Pink City, perhaps its readers can help. The book currently holds a 4.29-star average from 49 Goodreads ratings, while Amazon lists it at 4.3 stars from 23 ratings. That’s a warm reception for the first installment in an ambitious…
Or: How Between Heaven and Earth became my first visible beginning—and the angel romance I was finally ready to claim. For most of my writing life, success meant disappearing. I have ghostwritten more than seventy books. Some were romances. Some were fantasies. Some became bestsellers. I learned how to build a world immersive enough for…
If Sarah J. Maas raised you, and Fourth Wing kept you up past midnight, you already know the ache of finishing a romantasy series and wondering what could possibly follow it. Most lists of books like ACOTAR will hand you another brutal court, another war, another heroine who has to be broken before she’s allowed to be…
There is a moment in every angel romance that changes the air in the room. It is not the moment someone is rescued. It is not the sweep of wings or the crack of divine power splitting the dark. Those are beautiful, yes — but they are not the moment that makes a reader stop…
There is a particular kind of tiredness that settles in when love is framed as something you must compete for. Not dramatic tiredness. Not despair. Just a low, constant vigilance. The feeling that affection might narrow, attention might slip, and devotion might need to be re-earned tomorrow. Many of us know this feeling not because…