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Sell’s romantic comedy, Lovestruck, is set in an island resort run by a lovablybr /

dysfunctional family – a perfect place for tangled love and tourists seeking abr /

tropical paradise.  Perfect that is, exceptbr /

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there. I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and in today’s episode of Binge Readingbr /

Bronwyn talks about the complications of writing romantic comedy in a pandemic,br /

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And just to keep you happy we’ve got a “Isolation Giveaway” – three laugh-out-loud paperback copies of Lovestruck for three lucky readers – just the medicine for these testing times.  Enter the draw online at The Joys of Binge Reading.com or on our Binge Reading Facebook page.  Entries close 2 May.  And remember, we always love to hear your comments on the show, so go online and talk to us.br /

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Romcom Giveaway for Lovestruck - Enter draw.br /

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Six things you’ll learn from this Joys of Binge Reading episode:br /

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Writing in the time of pandemicManaging a dual identity, dual genre lifeThe road from suspense to comedy Romcom authors to watchLiving - and writing - in the 'new normal'Seeing disruption as opportunitybr /

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Website: https://www.bronwynsell.com/br /

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Facebook: @bronwynsellauthorbr /

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Twitter: @brynnwritesbr /

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Instagram: @writerbronbr /

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Jenny Wheeler: But now here's Bronwyn. Hello, there Bronwyn, and welcome to thebr /

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Bronwyn Sell: Hi Jenny. It's great to be back. br /

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Jenny Wheeler:  Yes, you're talking about being back because you are the first person ever that we've had on a second time, and that's really a milestone for the show, partly perhaps just that we'd been going a couple of years now, but also because you have changed both your writer name and your genre. br /

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The last time we talked to you, you were Brynn Kelly and you were doing romantic suspense and winning a lot of praise and success with a four-book series called The Legionnaires. You won starred reviews and got a RITA reward, and you were going great guns with that. What made you decide to change horses, so to speak? br /

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Bronwyn Sell: Well, yes, as you say it was a great start and I was very lucky as a debut author to be published by a big New York publisher, and they put the first books out hard cover, it was all looking great and they thought that I would be the next big thing.  And the genre, which is epic, global, romantic thrillers, would be the next big thing.br /

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Turned out that neither of us was.  It seemed that because we were targeting thebr /

U S market primarily, as well as Canada, the US seemed to go very insular inbr /

its reading choices when it came to romantic thrillers and my books didn't sellbr /

in the numbers that the publishers had been hoping for.br /

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There were still good sales, especially for a New Zealand author.  They were the sales, if you got that for the New Zealand published book, it would be a mega bestseller, but it wasn't enough to get me a fifth book or a new contract, a new series.  br /

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Brynn Kelly's romantic thriller series - Deception Island - Book 1br /

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