

“I am OBSESSED with the cover for Alexa Martin’s Intercepted! I remember when I first saw it when she revealed the cover, and I couldn’t get over it-I was drawn in right away to that woman on the cover. We touched on the illustrated cover trend, and I asked what her favorites are.

In Jasmine’s words, “SO GOOD.”) Jasmine Guillory on Illustrated Covers I never looked back!” (In non-romance-though it has an amazing meet cute-we both gushed about mutual pal Amy Spalding’s next novel, We Used To Be Friends. Like many people, she’d read romance here and there over the years, including Georgette Heyer’s books, but she says “Tessa Dare, Courtney Milan, and Lisa Kleypas’s books were the ones that made me dive head first into the genre. Jasmine Guillory’s Gateway Romance Readsįor many newer readers of romance, Jasmine’s books are the gateway to the genre, so I asked her what books got her started reading romance. I had the opportunity recently to ask Jasmine a few questions over email about romance novels, baking, her dream cast for the (imaginary, for now) adaptations of her books, and more. The series has spawned a large and still growing fan base, and possibly been the catalyst for Barnes & Noble going all-in on romance. The newest book in the series, Royal Holiday, is in stores now.

Her debut, The Wedding Date, was a runaway hit and has spawned a small but growing universe of novels about a group of friends and relations in California, each of whom gets their own happy ending. You probably already know this if you follow her on Twitter, subscribe to her newsletter, or, I dunno, have read her books.
