Coming Feb 6 2025, it’s:
A Passion for Passion: A Delirious Love Letter to Romance
A glorious homage to genre fiction, celebrating the solemn silliness of romance novels
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It is an extremely silly and loving book about romance as a genre. Why it’s underrated, why straight men should read it and why Dukes have SO many abs. It includes little essays, pictures and How To instructions, as well as extracts and synopses of D’Ancey LaGuarde books.
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D’Ancey LaGuarde is a self published romance maven and online bestselling author who writes a new book every four to five days. D’Ancey, who may or may not be a figment of Alice Fraser’s imagination depending on how much you believe in interdimensional communication and quantum multiverse theories, writes books that span Romance, Romantasy, Historical Romance with a Supernatural twist, Horrorromance, Children’s puzzle based romance, Sexy Cookbooks and to do lists.
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I wrote my undergraduate thesis on romance, actually. I’ve always been interested in art forms that are underrated by snobs but sneakily influential and occasionally transcendental. Standup is one, Romance another. It also struck me as strange how many smart women told me that reading romance was their guilty pleasure. When lots of women feel guilty about a pleasure, I’m interested in what and why.
I’m a massive nerd about this stuff, and of course, when I’m interested in something, I desperately want to understand it and unfold it and bury myself in it. The more I find out the more I want to know, my hunger feeding itself, and isn’t that as good an explanation of love as anything?
About the book
Alice Fraser has a special place in her heart for the solemn silliness of romance novels. The journey to reach a believable Happily Ever After can go via an unbelievable rollercoaster of intensity, through wildly entertaining twists and unlikely turns. To celebrate the unparalleled joy this genre can bring to readers and defy its oft maligned status, Alice has created the author, D'Ancey LaGuarde, the ineffably mysterious, outrageously prolific, undisputed regent of the art of romance.
Collecting together excerpts, book cover designs, character sketches and synopses of ‘D'Ancey’s’ most absurdly frivolous and outlandishly whimsical works, this is an exclusive glimpse into the tropes and dreams that rise like perfumed bubbles through the fecund swamp of the romantic mind, and a fulsome challenge to anyone denying the importance of joyful silliness purely for its own sake.
This book will be a constant source of solace and encouragement for romance fans worldwide, and the perfect companion to smuggle into your next ball . . .