Sarah MacLean's Top 3 Fall Romance Reads for 2023

Fall Romance Recommendations

• 📚 Best-selling author Sarah MacLean, co-host of the romance podcast "Fated Mates," shares three must-read romance novels for the fall season.
• 💡 Her recommendations cater to various tastes, from paranormal adventures to contemporary magical realism and historical second chances.

Book 1: To Clutch a Razor

• 🔪 Recommended for October, this paranormal fantasy by Veronica Roth is part of the "Curse Bearer" series.
• 👻 Set in modern-day Chicago, it features monster hunters and paranormal creatures working together to find Baba Yaga, offering a big adventure story with creepy characters.

Book 2: Full Bloom

• 🌸 A quintessential New York City novel by Franchesca Serotelli, perfect for the fall season.
• ✨ The story follows a woman on her birthday who receives a magical perfume from her neighbor that makes her irresistible, but also unleashes past secrets.

Book 3: The Earl That Got Away

• 💖 This historical romance by Diana Quincy is described as a perfect "Persuasion" retelling, ideal for second chances.
• 🌹 It features an Arab American heroine who returns to Victorian London eight years after leaving the love of her life, who is now a wealthy Earl.

Writing Romance Novels

• 📖 Sarah MacLean advises aspiring romance authors to read widely within the genre to understand different sub-genres like paranormal, contemporary, historical, and magical realism.
• ✍️ She emphasizes that the romance reading community is vast and welcoming to new stories.