Use Romance Novels to live and love your best life

Romance novels are often the butt of many literary jokes. However, romance gets to laugh all the way to the bank as it is the most popular fiction genre. Others may blame these novels for setting unrealistic expectations for love, romance and relationships.

Although I've written my share of romance novels, I beg to differ. I write romances for real every day women be they single, divorced, mothers in a relationship, married or looking for their soul mate. Eventually, I get to the boy meets girl angle but I begin with the main characters. 

In Not His Type, The More Things Change, Mixed Reality and Mulligans Match, the characters go through a process to love themselves  look at themselves through the loving eyes others do. In Bliss Inc, Waiting for Mr. Darcy, I Take This Woman and North of Forty, the main characters are confident women from the outset. However, they are cautious when it comes to love. Perhaps a little too cautious. The lesson is to take a leap of faith for love with the possibility of a few scrapes along the way but the scrapes are survivable and the leap worth it to find love that will thrive.

The common factor in my novels is I feature curvy main characters due to the lack of representation in most romances. Usually curvy characters are the funny second bananas or best friend who encourages the typical romantic heroine (thin, raven haired with a tiny waist) in her pursuit of "the one". I'm generalizing as there are many romance genres within romance. I'm referring to the ones on the bookstore shelves for romance when I was in high school.

Thankfully romance has expanded to encompass all tastes. I don't want romance readers to feel they can't read one of my books as I represent the curvy niche. I'm about love from the inside out and believe it or not there are some women who are size 8 and below with body issues. The fact is one can't truly love until they love the person looking back at them in the mirror. Once you do that's when real love and romance happens. So tell the guys romance writers are doing them a solid. There is nothing sexier than a confident woman and if she's on your arm all the better.

I write romance to get a spark. What happens next is up to the reader. It's more than possible you'll be on the road to live and love fully knowing the best is around every corner. 


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Happy reading!