Romance is Bliss Event with Roxanne Snopek

Meet Bliss author, Roxanne Snopek.

Roxanne Snopek is the author of ten books, more than 150 articles, and has had short fiction published in several anthologies. She is currently serving as Vice-President of the Romance Writers of America Greater Vancouver Chapter. She and her family live in the Pacific Northwest, where she’s at work on more love stories for Entangled Publishing.

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Why I Write Romance

I had my first crush about the time I started school. A little boy named Tommy. He was very cute (duh –he was five!) with dark hair and sweet eyes. He had a sprained ankle or something and his big brother brought him to school in a wagon.

In my fantasy, I got to pull that little red wagon. (Keep it clean, people.)

Yes, that was my fantasy. Dragging my broken hero around in a red Radio Flyer. Hey, I was five.

Skip ahead several stages/years/decades. I dated some good guys. A fun-loving athlete who looked like Orlando Bloom and was devoted to me. A strong, silent farmer with a kind heart and a quarter-section of land. That cute blonde with the trust fund.

Unfortunately, something was always missing. Orlando was sweet, but not enough to beat out bad knees and a speech impediment. Trust-fund-boy had a weak chin. The farmer’s self-sufficiency just didn’t turn my crank. Also, he was built like a Weeble.

But the whisky-eyed intellectual crippled by self-doubt? The passionate activist who intended to save the world or die trying? That foreign guy with the prison record? Sign me up!

Don’t worry, I slipped my noose of bad decisions just in time. (I drew the line at lithium and assault rifles. Unless he’s Jax Teller or Patrick Jane, I recommend you do the same. Just my 0.02.)

It occurred to me that one of the forces driving me is the need to be needed. I wasn’t drawn so much to the drama of the bad boys as I was to the vulnerability I saw in them. They weren’t bad; they were strays, outsiders, broken boys in little red wagons, who hid their wounds beneath leather, sarcasm and delusions of grandeur. (Plus the occasional psychotic break.)

Turns out that while these wounded heroes are not the best choice for Real Life, they make excellent fiction. On the page, I can explore the source of their wounds, create scenarios in which they learn to overcome them, and put in their paths women who bring out their best qualities without being destroyed. I can create heroines who change and grow in response to the men they love while remaining true to themselves.

This is the official reason I write romance: to create the ultimate fantasy, in which two people see each other at their very worst, and within a couple hundred pages, become their very best, through the power of love. Boom! The End.

And here’s the deeper reason. I write romance to remind myself that as continually-changing, ever-wounded, ever-healing heroes and heroines of our own stories, we get to build our own Real Life Happily-Ever-Afters, not just once, but over and over and over.

Love works. And love is work. And that’s the truth.

The End.

This cowboy doesn't know what he's in for...

Real-estate tycoon Mitchell Granger has a problem. In order to secure a lucrative deal with an eccentric client, he told the teeny white lie that he was engaged…and now he needs to prove it. Even worse? The only name that came to mind was Sabrina Becker, the girl he was never good enough for growing up, and who still lives near his family ranch.

Sabrina doesn’t mind posing as Mitch’s fake fiancée—no, she doesn’t mind at all. One, she’ll make him pay with new construction for her business. And two, Sabrina’s got a plan to exact revenge on her first love, the boy who left her and Three River Ranch behind. She’ll pretend so well, he’ll fall in love with her…and then he’ll get a taste of what true heartbreak feels like.

But as Mitch sheds his corporate skin and picks up his dusty jeans and cowboy hat, will both his and Sabrina’s grand plans get derailed by love?

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