Blitz - Chapter Twelve (Patreon)

So instead of talking about my exhausting writing/editing journey on this chapter, I have a bit of a story, just for the fun of it. 

Recently I told my girlfriend a story about the first romance novel I ever read, back when I was thirteen or so -- I believed I mentioned this in my post about how I got started writing what I do. Anyways, I talked a bit more about how this book affected me to her and got this itch to read it again after like fifteen years or something.

Now, I have no idea what the hell this book is called and I only have the briefest memories about things within it, not many which would help narrow down the search more. After all, it wouldn't be a 'romance novel' if there wasn't a pregnancy, a doctor, a cheating scandal, a cowboy, vampires, my best friend's brother -- okay those last few weren't there, but you get the tropes. So, narrowing it down has been difficult.

Well, I've been looking for a few other books to start rebuilding my own library so this weekend, my girl and I wound up in a little corner bookstore to poke around. To my absolute delight, they had a ridiculous amount of romance novels at this place. Like an entire alcove dedicated just to Harlequin amount of romance novels. 

So we start poking around and looking for this book and at first I'm halfway into it, but the longer I looked the more the hope in my rose. And the longer I searched the more my girlfriend had fun making fun of the titles and the horrible blurbs and just the overall cheesiness of the whole industry. I'm sure by the end of our search the bookstore owner was exhausted with us and just praying we would leave, especially when we came up empty handed in our exhausting journey.

Morale of the story, even if things don't go the way you want, it doesn't mean you can't have fun.