Kristina Forest

Martin's Press and she was a publicist who worked on a historical romance.

And we used to send books back and forth to each other.

And one day she sent me a box of mass market historical romance novels.

And when I tell you, I think I read that entire box in like two weeks.

I was like, oh my God, this is amazing.

Yeah.

What a delight.

I know.

We would just send each other packages.

That's another plus of working in publishing.

It's just the amount of leftover free books that you find around the office.

And that feeling that I had of discovering these historical romance novels reminded me of like you're saying of when you're younger and you find a book that you really love.

And what I love particularly about romance, but like because I'm talking about historical, I'll stay there, is you'll find a book that you really, really like.

And you'll be like, this was amazing.

And you'll look up the author and they've written like 50 other books and you're like, perfect, I'm getting them all.

And you can just immerse yourself in the author's entire backlist.

And so for years, I think this might be the first year that I haven't done it, but I usually pick one author and I just read their entire backlist for a couple months at a time.

And it's just like the most enjoyable experience

Because a lot of the times it's series which then break off into other interconnected series and you're just immersed in this world of this family or these friends and, you know, nothing captures my attention the way that a romance novel does.

Oh, gosh.