Jenny Wheeler: USA Today bestselling romcom author Emma St Clair loves sassy heroines, witty banter, and love stories with heart and humor. Her books have sizzling chemistry while keeping the bedroom door firmly closed.

Jenny Wheeler: Hi, I'm your host Jenny Wheeler, and today on the Binge Reading podcast, Emma talks about her crazy writing process - her favorite place to write is tapping on her phone while on the elliptical machine, believe it or not. And how she discovered she's probably ADHD - something she only realized when she was researching a story.

Free St Valentine’s Romances

Our Giveaway this week is Free Historical Romance, for St Valentine's Day, - or St Valentine's month actually. Sadie’s Vow, #1 in my Home At Last trilogy is included.

Books of mine you'll find in each offering listed below with the links to get the offer!

There's lots of other free or sale books there as well.

FREE HISTORICAL ROMANCE

kobo sale

free sweet romance

Before we get to Emma, a reminder. You can help defray the cost of the production by buying me a cup of coffee on www.buymeacoffee.com/jenny wheelx. Just a coffee a month will help!

And if you enjoy the show, leave us a review so others will find us too. Word of mouth is still the best way for others to discover the show and great books they will love to read.

Links for Things Mentioned in the Show

Leah Brunner. Clean and sweet  Ice hockey novella: https://leahbrunner.com/

Courtney Walsh: Clean and sweet ice hockey:

https://www.amazon.com/My-Phony-Valentine-Holidays-Hart-ebook/dp/B0BTB3LPYK

Books Emma recommends:

Hello Stranger from Katherine Center.

https://katherinecenter.com/hello-stranger

Mary E. Pearson

https://www.marypearson.com/

Tana French  The Likeness

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5941114-the-likeness

Where to find Emma Online

Website: https://emmastclair.com/

Facebook: Emma St Clair’s Epic Reader Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/emmastclair

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kikimojo/

Podcast: (Retired but website still up and episodes available on YouTube)

www.createifwriting.com

Introducing Romcom author Emma St Clair

Emma St Clair - sweet and sassy 'closed door' romcoms

Emma St Clair: Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. It's really nice and I appreciate you reaching out.

Jenny Wheeler: Fantastic. Emma, you are a master of the sweet, sassy, funny rom-com, and you've written a lot of them. Tell me, how did you get started in this particular genre and what do you like about it?

Emma St Clair: Well, it's funny. I got my master's degree in fiction, which is typically more literary. And I never thought I would write romance.

In fact, I didn't read romance. I was one of those people who poo-pooed romance, My attitude was, oh, you know, those romance books. Like that was just not my thing, and after I got my master's, I was writing more like literary young adult fiction.

I had an agent and we were submitting to New York publishers.

And then we had five kids in nine years, and so I just couldn't write at all.

I had a friend, the first inkling I had that romance was a possibility, which I actually rejected. My very best friend was like, you know, a friend. April, from college, is writing these chicklet books. Hers were a little more chick lit than romance.

It was right when chick lit was becoming a big thing, which I don't think there's even a category for that anymore. But anyway, sweet, happy books that had a little bit of romance, but were a little bit more character based.

And I said, oh, I would never do that. And she was like, all right, I think you'd be good at it.

And I was like, oh, no, no, no. I could not do that. I write literary fiction.

How 'literary' author Emma found romance

And then a few years later, I kept trying to see if I could write books again when my kids were at the different ages.