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Tag: Tropes
In Defense of Romance, and the Pivotal Role it Plays in YA, a guest post by Ellen O’Clover
People love to make fun of romance. Isn’t it embarrassing to have huge, vulnerable feelings for another person? Gross! I hope you’re catching my sarcasm, because no! Not gross!
3 Classic Tropes as Reimagined in The Love Match, a guest post by Priyanka Taslim
There are quite a few more tropes within the story that I’m excited for readers to discover when they read The Love Match. I hope they will give it a chance and do away with the notion that harmless, joyful tropes can “die” before an endless amount of marginalized authors who’ve never gotten a chance to write them can do it.
Book Review: Fools In Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales edited by Ashley Herring Blake and Rebecca Podos
This was an entertaining read with great diversity and inclusion.
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There’s Something About Insta-Love, a guest post by Phil Stamper
On rom-coms and insta-love: "As an author of queer YA, I get to take it one step further. I can break the trope apart and put it back together the way I want—celebrating the similarities and differences of queer love in all its forms."
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