When a friend suggested I interview romance writer Jasmine Guillory on the show, I was a little skeptical. Romance novels? Eh. Then I binge-listened her book, The Wedding Date, and I was hooked. A lawyer and avid reader, Guillory had trouble finding books about people like her—successful, smart, urban, and black. So she wrote one herself. This is the story of how she taught herself to become a published writer.