Why I Finally Wrote a Hockey Romance
I love reading hockey romance. There. That's probably the least complicated explanation for how I ended up writing one. 😂 I've read plenty of them; I know how popular the genre is right now, and apparently at some point my brain decided that enjoying other people's fictional hockey players wasn't enough. I needed one of my own. And then Breaking the Ice would not leave me alone. At first, it was just one of those story ideas that kept hanging around in the back of my mind. You know the kind. The one that politely waits while you're supposed to be thinking about something else and then goes: Hey. Remember me? We should write this. Eventually, I gave in. And once I actually started writing Gideon and Poppy's story, something clicked. I knew the direction I wanted to take it. I knew what kind of relationship I wanted between them. And the deeper I got into their story, the more certain I became that this was exactly the book I was supposed to be writing. So...wh...
