Publication Date: June 2024
Synopsis:
Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies―good ones! That win contests! But she’s also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates―The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!―it’s a break too big to pass up.
Emma’s younger sister steps in for caretaking duties, and Emma moves to L.A. for six weeks for the writing gig of a lifetime. But what is it they say? Don’t meet your heroes? Charlie Yates doesn’t want to write with anyone―much less “a failed, nobody screenwriter.” Worse, the romantic comedy he’s written is so terrible it might actually bring on the apocalypse. Plus! He doesn’t even care about the script―it’s just a means to get a different one green-lit. Oh, and he thinks love is an emotional Ponzi scheme.
But Emma’s not going down without a fight. She will stand up for herself, and for rom-coms, and for love itself. She will convince him that love stories matter―even if she has to kiss him senseless to do it. But . . . what if that kiss is accidentally amazing? What if real life turns out to be so much . . . more real than fiction? What if the love story they’re writing breaks all Emma’s rules―and comes true?
What To Expect:
The Rom-commers is a story about two screen writers who are thrown together to rewrite a script for a romantic comedy. You can expect romance and redemption, but also heavy themes.
Content Warnings:
Language: Consistent use of swear words throughout the novel
Sexual Content: Descriptive kissing. One character asks another to sleep with them. Discussion about orgasms (this is mild, but brought up a few times as a joke), character is nicknamed “heywood jablowmie”
Violence: Moderate – Description of accident
Substance Use: Moderate – One scene where character gets drunk by an entire bottle of champagne, Bloody Marys mentioned
Prejudices: None
Religious Themes: None
Other Topics: Cancer, death of a parent, being a full-time caregiver to a parent
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