Love, Books & Battle of the Sexes: Sheila Roberts on Her Boldest Rom-Com Yet

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About Sheila Roberts • USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author • Nearly 50 published books, 3 million+ copies sold • Books adapted for Lifetime, Great American Family, and Hallmark • Author of women’s fiction, contemporary rom-coms, Regency historicals, and devotionals • Also a songwriter — look up ’Merry Christmas Mama’ on YouTube for a fun bonus! About Love on the Shelf • Alice owns HEA Bookshop and has always lived more through books than life • Parker Black is a podcast host with a massive following — and a mission to tear down romance novels • What unfolds is a battle-of-the-sexes story with the whole romance community rallying against Parker • Sheila’s key theme throughout: ’Love always wins’ • Inspired in part by the viral ’bear or man in the woods’ social media debate Coming Soon from Sheila Roberts • Starry-Eyed for Christmas — a fun, heartfelt holiday story about a space alien (John Smith) who visits Earth and falls for an Earth girl. Currently available on Amazon as an e-read. • Have Yourself a Merry Little Meltdown — a woman writer puts her chaotic family in a Christmas book, then panics when she has to go home for the holidays. Hilarity (and romance) ensues. Fresh Fiction Facts Highlights • Weird childhood collection: bugs! She had a caterpillar farm and calls herself a former ’bugologist’ • Won’t spend money on: designer purses (though she does have her eye on a Kate Spade typewriter bag) • Biggest pet peeve: AI writing — ’I don’t want to see people

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