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A real-life rom com in reverse. 💔 ❤️ Publishing journey. 📚 British-American agented novelist on sub to Big 5. Editor day job (not glam kind), cat lady, avid reader, afternoon tea lover. 🐈⬛ 🫖 Lived 📌 UK, US, Germany.
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- 13
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- Sep 30, 2026
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- Jul 7, 2026
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LITTLE LOVE STORIES: SEPTEMBER, ISSUE 3 (opens the original)
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This column is quickly becoming my absolute favourite section of my Why We Met publication. To curate your experience, please click here to see how you can subscribe and unsubscribe from the various sections. (For example, you can choose only to read this column and not rom-com reviews or my publishing journey, etc.)Without my artist and writer network on Substack, I’d never have met any of these people featured in this issue, and I’m super grateful.
ROM COM REVIEWS: THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS, BAD DATES CLUB, HOW TO FIND LOVE IN THE CEREAL AISLE, AND ONE NIGHT ONLY (opens the original)
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I love a rom-com, and with Emily Henry’s books finally getting made into films and TV series, are we getting the season of rom-coms back? Like classic 2000s films, I think we all need a little more love and magic in our lives. You know, given the times. I want to go to the cinema at any given point and find a rom-com on. Instead, I have to wait very sparingly to plan these rom-com trips with my niece because they aren’t released every weekend, which is very disappointing.This issue, I’m covering
PUBLISHING JOURNEY: HOW LIKELY IS IT TO GET PUBLISHED? (opens the original)
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What makes Yesteryear, Yellowface, The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, ACOTAR, Project Hail Mary, Heart the Lover, The Thursday Murder Club, The Help, Theo of Golden, The Names, The Wedding People, The Housemaid, and so many others bestsellers, whereas some books fade into obscurity or may contain a brilliant story but never gain traction? The answer is often a hooky concept.Do I have that with my novel, The Broken Engagement Club? The title is hooky, and my agent
ROM COM REVIEWS: IDEAL LIFE, COVER STORY, AND MY BRILLIANT CAREER (opens the original)
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Somehow a few years ago, I came across the book The Hundred Loves of Juliet and the concept was brilliant: what if Romeo had to find Juliet in every lifetime to break the curse? But the catch is Juliet doesn’t remember him. I’m sure I was listening to a podcast or something and was being interviewed, and I bought the book immediately and thought it was magical. I haven’t read all of Skye’s backlist yet (she is the author of Damsel, too, which was a Netflix film with Millie Bobby Brown from Stran
PRESENT-DAY SNIPPET: GENERAL HOUSEKEEPING (opens the original)
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Hello, my lovely readers. I’m truly grateful that almost 500 people subscribe to my little newsletter, that of tells me I have a good open rate, and that I seem to have very good engagement, and thousands of views per month, especially for a very small publication where I sometimes only get around to posting a couple of times per month.But I wanted to let everyone know A) what I have on offer in my publication and B) how to filter down only to what you’d like to read.</span
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