A Forever Summer by Havelah McLat

A Forever Summer by Havelah McLat

This week on the blog, I’m reviewing A Forever Summer by Havelah McLat. This is a sweet summer-themed romance and it’s a brand new release! Before I get onto the review, here’s the blurb to give you a flavour. The Blurb It’s hard to know who you can trust, when you can’t remember your past. Katherine is an artist struggling with the grief of losing her mother at a young age. When her father dies, she and her sister unexpectedly inherit

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Writing and Reading Romance

Writing and Reading Romance

Since it’s Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d talk about romance this week! Romance is a huge genre in literature. Even more books have at least some element of romance in them, even if that is not their main genre. What makes a romance a romance? Like with any genre, romance has a few tropes (literary devices that mark a story as a particular genre) it has to hit in order to be a romance. Obviously there needs to be a love

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Yorkshire, 1909 – The Setting of my novel

Yorkshire, 1909 – The Setting of my novel

This week on the blog, I thought I’d talk more about the setting of my historical mystery romance novel. I’m currently editing this novel as part of the ‘Now What?’ NaNoWriMo challenge. I wrote this project during NaNo 2021 and I plan to make it a free novel for my newsletter subscribers. So if you’d like to get a free novel and updates of when it’s coming out (hopefully by March or April), then you can sign up here! At the

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