Romance is the best
Plus a flash promo
How long have you all been reading romance? For me, it’s twenty-five years. I picked up my first romance (off a friend’s mum’s shelf) in the year 2000 (I promise I was old enough for it, although only just). My own mother I don’t think ever read romance and she’d certainly swallowed the line that romance wasn’t a very edifying thing to read, so I didn’t even know the genre existed until that time I picked up a book and my world opened up.
The book was Affair by Amanda Quick and I’ve loved Regency romance ever since. Now, at long last, the British Book Awards (the Nibbies, run by the Bookseller magazine) are FINALLY getting a romance category. They’ve had a crime and thriller category for years, but not romance. How terrible is that? With what possible justification? But now they’ve rectified it, which made my day when I heard about it yesterday.
I’m a little worried there will be some residual high-brow choices on the shortlist (possibly even without a happily-ever-after - yuck!), but not having a category at all was rubbish, so everything’s an improvement.
Bookbub Promo Day!
A Winter Wedding Adventure has an international Bookbub promotion today, so it’s only 99c/99p! That’s a tiny amount for a trip to the snow, with an Austrian Christmas market, an ice cave and some cosy fireside moments - and of course an epic opposites attract, grumpy/sunshine romance about finding your soulmate in the least likely person.
Set in Salzburg and the Tux Valley in Tyrol, it’s about a gruff and closed-off adventure guide who’s been roped into helping out with destination weddings. But when she has to take sensitive opera singer Mattia, who’s never even seen snow, under her wing, she never expects he’ll change her perspective on life and love.
Grab a copy for only 99c/99p and enjoy it with some hot chocolate or mulled wine over Christmas and New Year’s.
Wishing you all some rest over the holidays, lots of good books and time spent with people you love.
All my best
Leonie x