You don't have to put down somebody else's favorite to boost up your own, and that's an important part of the message that my book is about. It's about hope and it's about happiness and how it's very important, especially for people's mental health these days, to have those things in our entertainment. Jo Wright always swore shed never step foot on Little Bridge Island. We have so many great writers coming out now who are being really extremely vocal about what romance represents. It's really important to bring out because it's something that I'm sick of seeing. We have all genres represented - we have horror, we have YA, and there's a mystery writer. There's always an assortment of different authors at a book festival. There's a lot of that going on in the book as well. She's like, "Every single one of your books basically romance novels where everybody dies at the end, just be honest about it." When it starts out, he's dismissive of women's fiction. Jo writes middle-grade children's fiction about a talking cat. Or at least I refer to it as trauma porn. So this guy,, he writes what he calls tragic love stories, but I think the rest of us refer to it as trauma porn. And one of the things we love, obviously, are romance novels. There's a lot of people who say, "Oh, they dismiss genre out of hand because it's mainly written by women, it's mainly read by women." Women are just dismissed out of hand and blamed for so much of society's ills, and so are the things that we love.
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