If the only thing you like more than reading happily-ever-afters is breaking down all the bits you loved best later, this is the spot for you. This newsletter exists to arcs to nerd out over how romance novels hit all the right notes with your favorite tropes, themes, arcs, and stock characters to give readers generic satisfaction. (Generic here meaning “related to genre.”)


Hi! I’m Cate Eland, a romance junkie from way back. I’m living my own HEA in Austin, Texas, where I make a lot of spreadsheets, corral my two small children, and subsist on tacos and BBQ.

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