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I could add a few more, because I write later-in-life romance. People think love & romance ends at 50 and we don't have a right to experience these feelings anymore. It's even more difficult to write considering all the baggage the protagonists bing into a relationship.

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So true!!! I love romance at ALL ages!

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I love Lynne Painter’s books. Nina Kenwood writes good romance & so does Carley Fortune.

And you are so right, romance doesn’t mean sex. It’s all the things that happen before sex that make a romance book really great.

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Love those authors too and that description - 'everything that happens BEFORE the sex' - I'm quoting that in a workshop :) x

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Well I’ll be telling all my books friends that you are using something I said in a workshop!!!

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Aw :) x

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Well said, Rach! xx

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Aw thanks. x

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Love this so much!

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Thank you! x

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Great article! I love Ali Hazlewood’s romcom STEM novels. Clever and so swoon-worthy!

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Thanks and great rec! x

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Love these Rachael! I agree with all 10. I have about three books. All still in my head, at this point in time 😞 I am finding it so difficult to write that first line…. Sometimes, I imagine myself as Barbara Cartland, dressed in pink tulle and nursing a tiny Fur Baby…. Dictating my stories, barely pausing to breath…. We can always dream, right? 💕🙂

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Don't stress so much over the first line. It doesn't have to be perfect. Neither does the first draft. Just try and have fun and get something down. And if dressing in pink tulle helps, I'm ALL for it! xx

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Thanks! I might actually try the tulle - perhaps rainbow? 🌈🥰

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***to breathe***

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