Pink Slippers, Garden Scandals, and Why I Chose to Write P&P Rom Coms (Plus an Audio Sample)

Watch for it on Audible starting Wednesday–fingers crossed, everything will pass review and it’ll be available! For now, you can listen to the sample here for free: https://BookHip.com/HQAXWBS

Audible should have the audio available on Wednesday, fingers crossed. I thought it would be today because I don’t know how to differentiate between regular days and business days. Yeah, I’ve got it all together. Which leads me to why I started writing this collection (they are standalone novels, so I’ve been informed that this is a collection and not a series).

Believe it or not, this wasn’t my original writing plan for 2025. I had a serious soul mark fantasy series roughly sketched out. But when I started writing it, I didn’t feel happy. It was all conspiracies and dark secrets. And I realized: for my own mental health, this is not the time to be writing anything dark. I’ve always been the writer who likes to undercut scenes with humor when they start to get too serious. And I’ve always liked the conversational back and forth of E&D.

So I decided that this was in fact the year to lean into that instead.

Enter: P&P rom coms.

I’m talking classic rom com structure—witty banter, misunderstandings, a dash of forced proximity. Not farce, just romantic comedy goodness with empire waistlines and top hats. Think Sleepless in Seattle meets Almack’s. With puns. And just for fun, I decided to make three of them inspired by (not retellings of) fairy tales.

The Slipper Scandal is what happened when I asked myself: “What if Cinderella losing her slipper happened, but I make it a disaster?”

**Author’s note: These are the things I think about when left to my own devices. No sense in denying it.

Anyway, that thought led to a masquerade, a misplaced slipper, and a resentful lord. Suddenly, Elizabeth and Darcy are caught in London’s most delicious Twelfth Night scandal. He wants to do the honorable thing. She wants to escape. Neither realizes they’re fighting a losing battle against chemistry and fate.

Happy sigh.

If you need something light, funny, and yet still emotional  (in the best way), this is it. The book is here (and The Briar Bargain is out now, too). Oh, and I wrote a super fun, set-in-modern England P&P Christmas variation too–but I’ll wait to tell you more about that one.

May all your scandals be fictional and your slippers stay firmly on your feet!