So You Want to Write a Romance Novel
When:
Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025 6:30p -
9:30p
Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025 6:30p -
9:30p
Where:
The Lavender Room at Arts at the Armory
191 Highland Avenue, #1C
Somerville, MA 02143
Admission:
$40
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, Classes, Good for Groups, Shopping
Event website:
https://bit.ly/write-a-romance-novel
Join writer and literary agent Maggie Cooper for an introduction to the essentials of romance writing. We’ll begin our time together by defining some key terms, then dive into brainstorming exercises and generative writing prompts to get your ideas flowing. Whether you’re just getting started or need a little push to get back to a stalled-out draft, you’ll leave class ready to write your way towards your characters’ happily ever after.
This class is open to writers of all levels of experience and subgenres—from contemporary rom com to romantasy, hockey romance, and historicals. Tickets include a workshop seat and private shopping (with 15% off your purchase) from Read My Lips Boston, Boston's diverse romance pop-up bookstore!
More about Maggie Cooper:
Maggie Cooper is a writer, literary agent, and lifelong romance reader. In her agenting practice, she represents adult fiction and nonfiction with an emphasis on queer and trans stories and books that make our world weirder, kinder, more joyful, or all three. She’s the author of the prose chapbook The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies (Bull City Press 2024) and her fiction has appeared in The Rumpus, Ninth Letter, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Maggie also teaches writing at GrubStreet in Boston.
More about Read My Lips Boston:
Read My Lips Boston is a diverse romance bookshop. They partner with breweries, cafes, and other establishment to host monthly mobile shops all around Boston. Read My Lips Boston's curated selection of love stories centers authors and main characters identifying as BIPOC, disabled, queer, big-bodied, and members of other groups historically underrepresented in the romance genre. Read My Lips Boston donates 10% of their proceeds to local and national non-profits and social causes.
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