“I am OBSESSED with the cover for Alexa Martin’s Intercepted! I remember when I first saw it when she revealed the cover, and I couldn’t get over it-I was drawn in right away to that woman on the cover. We touched on the illustrated cover trend, and I asked what her favorites are. In Jasmine’s words, “SO GOOD.”) Jasmine Guillory on Illustrated Covers I never looked back!” (In non-romance-though it has an amazing meet cute-we both gushed about mutual pal Amy Spalding’s next novel, We Used To Be Friends. Like many people, she’d read romance here and there over the years, including Georgette Heyer’s books, but she says “Tessa Dare, Courtney Milan, and Lisa Kleypas’s books were the ones that made me dive head first into the genre. Jasmine Guillory’s Gateway Romance Readsįor many newer readers of romance, Jasmine’s books are the gateway to the genre, so I asked her what books got her started reading romance. I had the opportunity recently to ask Jasmine a few questions over email about romance novels, baking, her dream cast for the (imaginary, for now) adaptations of her books, and more. The series has spawned a large and still growing fan base, and possibly been the catalyst for Barnes & Noble going all-in on romance. The newest book in the series, Royal Holiday, is in stores now. Her debut, The Wedding Date, was a runaway hit and has spawned a small but growing universe of novels about a group of friends and relations in California, each of whom gets their own happy ending. You probably already know this if you follow her on Twitter, subscribe to her newsletter, or, I dunno, have read her books. Twitter: All posts by Annika Barranti Klein And I think I couldn't write a book last year that didn't deal with that theme because it was so important to so many of us in the past year.Annika Barranti Klein Contributing EditorĪnnika Barranti Klein likes books, obviously. You know, I know that my most recent book, While We Were Dating, I wrote during the pandemic, and there's a lot about mental health in there. And so while none of these books that I've read, at least, have specifically touched on it, I think a lot of the themes really have touched on it, right? There's a lot about friendship and how our friends evolve, about loving family, about mental health. It's an interesting year, right? Because I think a lot of the books that have come out this year were written at least partially during the pandemic. And that's one of the things that I loved about it so much. Does she want to be in this relationship? Does she want to be an NFL girlfriend? And there's so much about friendship and family and knowing who you are as a person before you're in a relationship in this book. And so she's figuring out herself and kind of who she wants to be as a person. She finds out that he's cheating on her, breaks up with him, but then there's a new player in town, and she has kind of a past with him. This story is really about Marlee, who starts out the book dating an NFL player. ![]() And Alexa Martin really knows how to deal with all of that - both sides of it. There's so much that we love about watching them, but we all know so many of the bad things that happen in sports, from the health struggles to assault to all of the kind of ways in which the teams don't treat their players well. And I've always had a kind of love-hate relationship with football and, I think, a lot of sports. One of the things that I love about Alexa Martin's writing is a lot of her books have been set in and around a football team. And I kind of loved the way that they learn about each other, figure out their families and figure out their selves as they're working through their relationship. And so she gets Luis to pretend to be her fiancé. They broke up right before, and she feels like she has to save face in front of her family. So that's why she has this fake fiancé, because she was supposed to come on this family vacation with a fiancé. And Sara, especially, feels like her family looks down on her. They both love their family so much, but have kind of difficult relationships with different individuals. And I think there's a lot of that in this book.īoth Sara and Luis are figuring out their families. And so, sometimes, you're really figuring out who your family is in relationship to you. And they - I should have probably said this at the beginning - one of my favorite things about romance novels, honestly, is I feel like they're always kind of secret family stories, right? Because when you think about who you want to spend your life with, a lot of times that's because of your family and the people that you grew up with.
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