![]() ![]() ![]() My best friend had started a job as a professor and was lonely and wished there was a romance novel about her. "I wrote my first romance novel as a joke for a friend," they revealed. I was doing my PhD and excited to have escapist fun reading." They fell into writing romance novels by accident, after a trip to visit a close friend. "I didn't read romance until grad school. Parrish got into writing Queer romances while pursuing their PhD. I wanted to write a Hallmark Christmas movie in book form, but Gay, very Gay," they laughed. It's just magical and snowy and cheerful. "I'm Jewish and people were like, why are you writing a Christmas book? Growing up not celebrating Christmas, I have no negative association with it. "I love holiday stories, and this is a Christmas book," they said. I sat down with Parrish this week to discuss the book and what inspired them to create such a jolly tale. This book takes a page from the Hallmark Channel, with all your favorite holiday tropes-it has a small-town Christmas, a sunshine and grumpy pairing, and a precocious child teaching their single parent a thing or two about love. ![]() ![]() Our SGN winter book club is getting more festive thanks to Roan Parrish and their new holiday book The Lights on Knockbridge Lane. ![]()
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