Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin.

What Happened to You? by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D.

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

We also hear Adriana delve into her favourite fanfiction and tropes therein.Īdriana on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

She also offers advice on how to accurately and respectfully represent characters who have suffered from childhood traumas and other forms of trauma in writing.

Adriana tells us about her past work in humanitarian aid and her current occupation as a trauma therapist and how all of these experiences have informed her writing.

She also gets into how genre fiction is a great empathy builder, and how representation in genre fiction – with happy endings abound – is important.

Adriana discusses her journey to writing romance, and her desire to see more people like her throughout the episode, we touch on the representation of women, queer people, and people of colour, particularly people in Black, Latinx and Afro-Latinx communities, in romance novels and beyond.

For more reading recommendations, check out these lists from the KWL blog and the Kobo blog. We also want to note that May is also Mental Health Awareness month in North America, a time dedicated to learning more about mental health issues and experiences, and a time to advocate for better access to care for all. Join us for an invigorating discussion about Adriana’s journey to writing romance, representation in romance, how her work as a trauma therapist informs her writing, the writing workshops she teaches, fanfiction, and more. In this episode, we are joined by USA Today bestselling author and trauma therapist Adriana Herrera, author of romance novels with “unapologetic happy endings.” Her most recent release and first in a new series, A Caribbean Heiress in Paris, is out on May 31st 2022 – preorder now!

Find more information about our podcast, including links to our guests’ books here. In this episode, we are joined by USA Today bestselling romance author and trauma therapist Adriana Herrera (author of Finding Joy, A Caribbean Heiress in Paris, and more) who spoke to us about her writing journey, representation in genre fiction, and more.

#292 – Unapologetic Happy Endings with Adriana Herrera

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