Falling in Love with Love: Why Romance?

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• More details about Nathan Burgoine

  Nathan Burgoine

  Nathan Burgoine is the author of the queer young adult novel Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks (finalist for the Prix Aurora Award for YA Novel) and queer young adult novella “Hope Echoes,” included in the collection Three Left Turns to Nowhere. His queer Hi-Lo books include Stuck With You and Dogs Don’t Break Hearts. Beyond writing, ’Nathan has worked in a sheet metal factory, on queer outreach, and as a bookstore manager. He, his husband, and their rescued husky live in Ottawa, Ontario.

• More details about Mimi Flood

  Mimi Flood

  Mimi Flood writes sizzling romances packed with heart, heat, and just the right amount of angst. A lifelong lover of movies, screenwriting, and happily-ever-afters, her stories will make you laugh, cry, and swoon (sometimes all at once). Aside from being a writer, Mimi is also a bad-mom, an alright wife, a die-hard Supernatural and Friends fan, and an unapologetic apple pie connoisseur. Her debut novel, The Long Weekend—a contemporary small-town romance set in her beloved Quebec—was a 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize finalist. Mimi currently calls Montreal home, where she’s probably plotting her next book over a cup of coffee or a glass of pinot grigio.

• More details about Renée Gendron

  Renée Gendron

  Renée Gendron is a multi-genre romance author who enjoys twisting tropes. She is the author of the romantasy series The Nearer Realm Tales, the romcom series Megan the Matchmaker's Brilliant Blind Dates, and the Canadian western historical romance series, Frontier Hearts. When isn't writing, she's plotting more books, taking craft lessons and participating in conferences.

• More details about HOSTED BY: Steve Hugh Westenra

  HOSTED BY: Steve Hugh Westenra

  Steve is a trans author of fantasy, science fiction, and horror (basically, if it’s weird he writes it). He's also a book reviewer, a SFINCS and SPFBO judge, and runs the Trans Reading Group discord. He grew up on the eldritch shores of Newfoundland, Canada, and currently lives and works in (the slightly less eldritch) Montreal. He holds advanced degrees in Russian Literature, Medieval Studies, and Religious Studies. His current academic work focuses on marginalized reclamations of monstrous figures. He has taught the History of Satan; Religion and its Monsters; and Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion. Steve is passionate about queerness, Late Antiquity, and spiders.