I don’t know about you, but I love a good rom-com. When I was coming up with the categories to tie into my writer-ish topics on this site, I started off with the usual “craft”, “publishing”, etc… all of which, yes, make sense and are perfectly normal.
But I guess I didn’t want to be just sensible and normal. I’m, you could say, a little quirky. (Okay. A lot. Ask my hubby—no, on second thought, don’t. 😃)
But somehow every other version of categories I came up with bored me…and if they bored me, I figured they might also bore you. But they still needed to make sense. If you come to the site looking for content that interests you, it needs to be easy enough to find.
I realized as I was doing this that I needed the same thing that we hear as writers all the time: recognizable but fresh. A new twist on an old theme. Something that resonates, but in a new way.
A Twist on a (Book Title) Theme
One of my favorite twists on a theme comes from book titles — I love love love the play on words from books, most often in romance.
One of my favorites is book titles, especially in historical romance, that play off movie titles and other well-known phrases. (Of course, my sense of humor may not be trusted because I also really love Dad-type jokes. And pun jokes.)
Seriously, you’ve been warned. If you laugh, you might have a punny sense of humor.
Romance Novels with Title Twists
In fact, here are just a couple of the ones I think do this brilliantly:
- When Good Earls Go Bad by Megan Frampton
- Romancing The Duke by Tessa Dare
- A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean
- You’re the Rogue That I Want by Samantha Holt
- The Duke is Mine by Eloisa James
- How to Lose a Duke in Ten Days by Laura Lee Guhrke
- Earls Just Want to Have Fun by Shana Galen
- My Brown-Eyed Earl by Anna Bennett
- I Kissed An Earl by Julie Anne Long
- Good Earl Gone Bad by Manda Collins
- Must Love Dukes by Elizabeth Michels
- The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean
- Ready Set Rogue – by Manda Collins
- The Best of Both Rogues by Samantha Grace
- Put Up Your Duke by Megan Frampton
- Between a Rake and a Hard Place by Connie Mason and Mia Marlowe
- Feta Attraction by Susannnah Hardy
- Much Ado About Muffin by Victoria Hamilton
- One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean
- Pride and Petticoats by Shana Galen
- Dukes Prefer Blondes by Loretta Chase
- What an Earl Wants by Shirley Karr
- While You Were Spying by Shana Galen
- Scandalous Ever After by Theresa Romain
- From Duke Till Dawn by Eva Leigh
- Sex and the Single Earl by Vanessa Kelly
- Something in the Heir by Jenny Gardiner
How can you read those and not smile? Seriously.
These titles always make me smile when I see them, so I thought – why not? I’ll do the same on my website. If no one else gets the jokes, at least I’ll find it funny every time I post something. (But you get it, right? You really get it?)
Hence the categories on my site, which cover pretty much everything I enjoy writing about:
- Pretty in Procrastination
- As Good as Inspiration Gets
- Say Productivity
- Much Ado About Marketing
- You’ve Got Tools
- Under the Publishing Sun
- While You Were Writing
- How to Write a Book in 10 Days
RomCom Movies I love
The movies that inspired them? I’ll bet you can guess… but here they are in case you are desperately seeking something to watch. (Aren’t we all?) As it would happen, these are also some of my favorite feel-good, happy-ending movies.
- How to Lose a Guy In Ten Days
- As Good as It Gets
- Say Anything
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Under the Tuscan Sun
- While You Were Sleeping
- You’ve Got Mail
I hope you find some good watching and some good reading!