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So. If you follow me on Instagram, you already know about this.

I've got a novella in an anthology that comes out this summer called A Series of Unfortunate Meet Cutes. This anthology is full of stories about disastrous first meetings that then turn into love. The cover was officially revealed this past Wednesday and I'm so, so excited!

While this novella isn't my first attempt at writing romance, it's definitely the first time I'll be sharing it with the world. I can't wait to read all the stories the other very talented writers will be adding to the anthology.

This is going to be a very diverse collection. It's got contemporary romance, paranormal romance, fantasy romance, F/F romance, and all of your favorite tropes in one awesome collection.

My novella, Daylight, is a paranormal romance about the witch of Kitchen Lake (an actual place in Oklahoma City and a fairly flimsy local urban legend) who works as a bartender as she builds up her hustle as a full-time spell caster. I'll be sharing more about this story as we get closer to the release.

If you're a romance reader and you'd like a chance to read this anthology before everyone else, you can apply to be an ARC reader/reviewer/hype person here. And you can add the anthology to your Goodreads TBR here.

"But Marisa," I hear you say, "I had no idea you even liked romance novels."

"Ah, dear reader, let me spin you a yarn," I say, suddenly dressed like a salty old fisherman, looking seaward with a glassy sheen to my eyes.

I have been around romance novels my whole life. My mom got the name "Marisa" from a romance novel she happened to be reading around the time I was born. She and my dad argued so much about my first name that they went to the hospital thinking I'd just have a first name and no middle name. Then, after giving birth, my dad left the room and my mom, as an offhanded thought, told the nurse my middle name was Marisa. Then Dad came back into the room, said he liked the name, and they have called me by my middle name ever since.

(If you couldn't tell, I was a mistake baby. Not a lot of forethought went into my existence, which is why it's super weird I'm such an obsessive planner.)

One of my fondest romance novel memories comes from my eighth grade Reading/Writing Workshop class. This was a semester-long class that was the halfway point between a traditional English class and a creative writing class. Our teacher had tons of used novels she kept stocked on the shelves of her classroom. Everything you could want was on those shelves, from sci-fi to fantasy to highly venerated literature.

And a fair amount of those novels happened to be romance.

As you can imagine, every hormonal teen girl in that class read voraciously during silent reading time. These romance novels were the paperbacks with horses and castles and a man with long hair flowing in the wind on the cover, so naturally, none of the boys in the class touched them.

That is, until around the last week of school when one of the boys asked why all the girls were always so quiet during silent reading time. Then, one bespectacled young lady on the front row leaned over to the boy who asked the question, pointed out a paragraph in the book she happened to be reading, let him skim it over, and then laughed as his face turned read.

He got up from his chair, grabbed a book, sat back down, and skimmed until he found a page of interest.

If you know, you know.

Anyway, all of this is to say that I hope you're ready for a romance novel series based on the tarot. And for more adventures with the witch of Kitchen Lake.

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