HeyJaredHEAs & Other Obsessions
Happily Ever Afters (HEAs), writing, books, food, pop culture, and other fixations by romance author Gina Banks
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Houston, We Need an Update! (opens the original)
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It’s been a minute since I announced my debut romance novel, HOUSTON, WE HAVE SO MANY PROBLEMS, had been acquired—at auction—by Forever/Hachette. Do you remember?? I do! <a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B1ih!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F309f716b-e463-4c24-9661-d797ee48b22a_134x129.png" target="_bla
Wherever you go, there you are (opens the original)
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For my birthday this year, my BFF Anne bought me a session at float therapy. I was sold on the description alone—an hour effortlessly buoying inside a cute lil pod while all my anxiety melts away? SIGN ME UP. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="386" src="h
The greatest role Robert Pattinson plays is Man on a Press Tour (opens the original)
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To be honest, I wasn’t really Team Edward or Team Jacob when it came to Twilight. I thought they both had pretty significant flaws and Bella was such a nothingburger that it was hard to understand why they were fighting over her to begin with. (Am I going to be canceled for not loving a 2008 movie?) <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7UaN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2F
Be ready when the luck happens (opens the original)
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Did you see my BIG NEWS ABOUT MY BOOK DEAL?? I’m surprised you didn’t hear me shouting it from the rooftops. (Metaphorically, of course. My neighbors are empty nesters who wouldn’t appreciate the scare). I actually got the deal back in mid-May, but for various reasons, we couldn’t announce it until recently. During that in between period, I thought a lot about timing and why this was the book that finally got picked up as opposed to the many that
My Ojai travel guide (opens the original)
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What do you do when you have four weeks to complete your first round of edits and you have two young kids and a very demanding day job? If you’re me, you escape Bonnie-and-Clyde style to Ojai where you remove all the distractions of every day life and focus on your book. <source type="imag
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