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anika Bloom says she spent the first
twenty-five years of her working life as a
ghost. Well, a ghostwriter for progressive
not-for-profits—invisible to everyone who
hired her. When her client's work vanished
in March 2020, her spirit was drawn into
the world of steamy romance. Now, a USA
Today bestselling author, Danika splits her
days between nudging heroes and
heroines to fall in love and helping hobbyist
writers become published romance authors
in
her
online
community,
AuthorEverAfter.com.
She says, "I love romance authors, women
who, like me, are happiest when they don't
have to filter their thoughts. And the skills
I'd developed over almost three decades of
writing, coaching, community-building, and
running my own business made it a nobrainer to launch a space to support the
people I have the most fun around.
"Author Ever After is an online community
for romance writers to support each other
in becoming romance authors.
"Even though romance is the most popular
fiction genre, women who write romance
are often dismissed or judged for wasting
time writing "smut" by friends, family and
even other authors who write more
"important" books.
"So, I created AuthorEverAfter.com as a
safe and supportive space for women to
learn everything they need to know to indie
publish their passion projects.
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"My vision is to be known as *the*
community for pre-published romance
authors to join, a space where they know
they'll be respected and supported to
achieve their romance-writing goals. My
goal is to support at least 1,000 women to
develop
meaningful
friendships
and
business relationships with other romance
authors so they grow their communities."
Danika says if she had three wishes, they'd
be, "Wish One: That society would
recognize that the work women do is
valuable, even if that work is writing books
that help other women escape for a few
hours from the daily grind.
"Wish Two: That people who don't read
romance would stop judging it as smut and
recognize that many of these books are
subversive feminist literature where the
heroines get to be wounded and imperfect,
strong and willful
and still get their
happily
ever
after.
"Wish
Three:
That there were
more
diverse
voices
writing
and
publishing
books across all
genres of fiction
and non-fiction."
