Angelina M. Lopez
Contemporary romance author, Hyperromantic
Angelina M. Lopez, contemporary romance author
Romance often gets belittled for its escapism, but what Lopez offers is almost a publishing magic trick in itself. She delivers that escapist fantasy in spades…. But then she digs into the wounds and hard work underneath that fantasy, exposing the truth that a happily ever after in the context of reality is all the more rewarding.
When my kindergarten teacher asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wrote "arthur." Since then, I've been a journalist for an acclaimed city newspaper, a freelance magazine writer, and a content marketer for small businesses. And I learned how to spell the word “author” correctly.
I write sexy stories about fierce women and the men lucky to fall in love with them. I’m a lifelong romance reader and fan, and a champion of the concept that good art doesn’t have to make you feel bad. Romance writers are re-writing the script about the meaningfulness of pleasure, joy, escapism, and fantasy in art, and I’m proud and honored to be part of that movement, a movement led primarily by women, for women.
Unfortunately and for too long, women who looked like me writing characters of color didn’t get a seat at the table. Today’s romance authors are changing that. I like to say I write adult fairytales when I’m discussing the escapism and over-the-top bonkersness of my books. But my belief that people of color deserve to be the recipients of joy, pleasure, fantasy and happily ever afters is very, very real.
My first book in a new high-heat, small town, Latinx series, After Hours on Milagro Street, is a book very close to my heart. It’s inspired by my family, a large, multi-generational Mexican-American family in southeast Kansas, and I’m thrilled that it and the follow up, Full Moon Over Freedom, have received four starred reviews, an AudioFile Earphones award, and were named top ten romances of the year in The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and the Fated Mates podcast.
The first two books in my first series — Lush Money, named a Top 10 romance debut of 2020, and Hate Crush — also received rave reviews from Entertainment Weekly, NPR, and Booklist.
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