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Ashley Herring Blake
Ashley Herring Blake is a Georgia-based author of queer romance and young adult fiction. She is best known for the Bright Falls series and her Stonewall Honor-winning novel, Ivy Aberdeen’
Fools in Love
Fifteen bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming YA authors take on the tropes romance readers love most in this genre-spanning anthology, edited by Ashley Herring Blake and Rebecca Podos. A Passover dinner turns into a fake relationship, a golf tournament throws two rivals together, a snowstorm strands would-be sweethearts, and a superhero can't stop trading barbs with his nemesis — each of the fifteen stories reimagines a familiar romantic convention, from enemies to lovers and only one bed to second-chance romance and love triangles, often with a distinctly queer twist. Spanning contemporary settings, fantasy, and science fiction, and featuring predominantly F/F pairings alongside M/M and M/F stories, Fools in Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales is a big-hearted celebration of how love finds its way, however messily, for teen readers ages 13 and up.
Fools in Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales collects fifteen original short stories, edited by Ashley Herring Blake and Rebecca Podos, who each also contributed a story. The other thirteen are by Rebecca Barrow, Gloria Chao, Mason Deaver, Sara Farizan, Claire Kann, Malinda Lo, Hannah Moskowitz, Natasha Ngan, Lilliam Rivera, Laura Silverman, Amy Spalding, Rebecca Kim Wells, and Julian Winters. Each story reimagines a specific romance trope — among them fake dating, only one bed, grumpy/sunshine, second-chance romance, and love triangles.