Five Reasons Writing Romance Rocks, Guest Post by Kate Perry

Kate’s Loving it: Five Reasons Writing Romance Rocks

I can tell my husband to get naked at any time of the day, and it counts as being productive instead of slacking. Research is important, you know.

Speaking of it… It’s research, not daydreaming, when I stare at people and wonder

• what’s under their pants, if anything;
• how they kiss: wild and wet, or dry and demure;
• if they need tequila to dance on the bar top or if they’ll go for it.

I can wear tutus and sequined boots to my heart’s content. If I wrote thrillers, I’d get seriously mocked for my tutus. Also: kissing, not killing. It’s the first step toward peace. (Adopt that, world. You’re welcome.)

Writing romance, I’m allowed to drink champagne whenever I want. It’s in the Romance Author Bylaws. (Actually, I’d drink champagne whenever I wanted regardless of my career, because CHAMPAGNE.)

But, most of all, I spend every day promoting love. There’s nothing more important in the world than love, and I count myself lucky that I get to be an advocate.

 

 

Title: Once Upon a Dream

Author: Kate Perry

Blurb: Summer Welles wants the fairy tale.

The illegitimate daughter of Reginald Summerhill, the Earl of Amberlin, she listened to her mother’s stories about the Summerhill girls all her life. In her mind, Summer was part of the stories too—living in the castle, wearing fancy dresses, and falling in love with Prince Charming.

Her wish came true. Mostly. She lives in the Summerhill mansion. She has stepsisters—nice ones who don’t make her clean the chimney. She even has a magical wedding dress waiting for her special day. The only thing missing is the perfect man.

She knows exactly who he is, and she’s going to confront him at the annual Midnight Masquerade Ball. What Summer didn’t count on was mistaking a masked frog for her prince.

Once she kisses the mysterious man, he won’t go away. And he’s not sweet or charming or princely. He seems more interested in ravishing her rather than riding off into the sunset with her, and—worse—she’s tempted to let him.
Her fairy tale at stake, Summer’s faced with her own quest that neither frog nor prince can rescue her from: sacrifice her Happily Ever After, or turn her back on the one man who makes her feel alive?

*Can be read as a stand-alone novel.

About Kate Perry

Kate has tangoed at midnight with a man in blue furry chaps, dueled with flaming swords in the desert, and strutted on bar tops across the world and back. She’s been kissed under the Eiffel Tower, had her butt pinched in Florence, and been serenaded in New Orleans. But she found Happy Ever After in San Francisco with her Magic Man.

Kate’s the bestselling author of the Laurel Heights Novels, as well as the Family and Love and Guardians of Destiny series. She’s been translated into several languages and is quite proud to say she’s big in Slovenia. All her books are about strong, independent women who just want love.

Most days, you can find Kate in her favorite café, working on her latest novel. Sometimes she’s wearing a tutu. She may or may not have a jeweled dagger strapped to her thigh…

 

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