Welcome to the inaugural “Wednesday Writers”, a new series of weekly guest posts. It’s a pleasure to welcome the wonderful Nicole Murphy to kick things off with a very timely post on romance. I’d like to claim that I planned all along on featuring this the day after Valentine’s Day, but it is merely a happy accident!

An argument about the importance of romance.

I would like to put forward an argument that the much maligned and misunderstood genre of romance is, in fact, a serious contender for the title of most important genre.

Here’s my thinking.
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