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This week Amy leads us through using beat sheets to plan and/or fix a story. Alex and Sean join in from where they recline eating salty gold Irish chocolate. It's the middle of teaching and everyone'…

While all Regis Elements are created equal, there’s something particularly special about The Meeting. Think Harry meeting Sally before driving to New York; think Darcy slagging off Elizabeth at the b…

There is a secret to writing a bestseller and it is...nah, kidding...nobody knows. But the Word Docs will keep asking people anyway. This week, the dysfunctional trio bend their knees at the altar of…

“The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard” is loosely based on the life of Mitzah Bricard,  a woman the world remembers as the outrageous muse of Christian Dior but who was, in fact, his First Assistant D…

This week, the Lovers are back in book club! Amy, Kathleen and Georgia are reading Talia Hibbert’s Get a Life, Chloe Brown, and have so. Many. Thoughts. How does it represent and discuss class differ…

This week, three self-identifying sunshines are talking about a forever popular trope: Grumpy x Sunshine. Georgia, Amy, and Kathleen discuss how gender norms inform the trope, wonder if the female-su…

Leaving the world of academia when creativity came knocking has paid off for Pip Williams. She's the bestselling author of "The Dictionary of Lost Words" and "The Bookbinder of Jericho", and speaks w…

The big question on the Lovers’ lips this week: is Bucket List romance a subgenre, or a trope? And if it is, in fact, a subgenre, why aren’t there more novels in this space? Amy acts as expert on thi…

This week’s Regis Element is a big one: Society Defined. Kathleen, Georgia, and Amy break down what Regis means, exactly, by defining societies in romance novels, and talk about how this is different…

In Cronin’s “The Ferryman” the world’s elite enjoy eternal youth and deep personal satisfaction on the archipelago of Prospera but all is not as it seems and unrest is fomenting on both sides of the …

In this month’s book club, the Lovers dive into one of their most anticipated reads for 2023: Emily Henry’s Happy Place. Amy, Kathleen, and Georgia let you know what their happy places are, fancast t…

This week, the Lovers delve into a romance-favourite trope: the Fake Relationship. Georgia, Amy, and Kathleen discuss the different types of fake relationship we see in romances (from I-Can’t-Go-Home…

Kathleen, Georgia, and Amy are sitting back and relaxing into this week’s episode as they discuss the forever escapist subgenre of Vacation Romance. The Lovers define the subgenre, discuss its fantas…

Let author Catherine Therese introduce you to Leslie Bird, a fictional character so caustic she’ll make your eyes water. Yet, as Michaela discovered, the story behind Leslie’s creation is more likely…

The Lovers are back breaking down one of Pamela Regis’s essential elements of romance: the Point of Ritual Death (PORD, for short). Amy, Kathleen, and Georgia discuss the PORD’s writerly impact (Geor…

It’s our first book club week! This week the Lovers do a deep dive on Ali Hazelwood’s Love on the Brain, revisiting happy endings, aca-romance, and enemies to lovers as they swoon and squabble and do…

Kathleen, Amy and Georgia get swept away with everyone’s fav romance trope: enemies to lovers. This week the Lovers are seduced by the scholarship of Hsu-Ming Teo, flirt with film romance, have a bla…

Georgia, Kathleen and Amy discuss the popular subgenre of academic romance. The Lovers define the subgenre, unpack specific types of aca-romance, touch on dark academia, worry over defining academic …

The fates of three people from the 1940s, ‘70s and today collide in Chris Hammer’s thrilling new mystery, “The Tilt” - you won’t see it coming!

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Prolific 20th century writer and philosopher Aldous H…

Romance is defined by its (happy, melty, swoony) endings. This week Amy, Kathleen and Georgia consider one of Pamela Regis’s essential elements of romance: the ending. Who doesn’t want a happy ever a…