Defending Romance Novels How Romance Novels Can Be “Unrealistic” and Still Be Emotionally Honest: The Line Between Fantasy and Emotional Truth Romance isn’t trying to imitate life—it’s trying to mean something. When realism fails, emotional truth takes the wheel, even if the world’s on fire.
Writing with Purpose I Don’t Write Just to Escape—and That’s Okay These aren’t just love stories. They’re how I speak when silence feels like complicity. If it looks like escape from the outside, that’s fine. From the inside, it’s resistance—and survival.