It's a Wednesday night in 2005. You're patiently waiting for your favorite TV show to come on because last week's episode ended on a cliffhanger, and Netflix is still a mail-based DVD rental service. In fact, the word binge is only used in reference to your Cheetos eating habit. You are in your skinny jeans. You don't even know if they're cool or not yet, and you're listening to tunes on your first-generation iPod shuffle filled with songs illegally downloaded from Napster.
First up is Gavin DeGraw. His hit I Don't Want to Be is mainstream famous because it's the opening credit song for One Tree Hill. However, you listen to the version from the stripped album (an edgy, less produced compliment to the original album that is just Gavin's raspy tenor and a guitar.) Gavin croons, and you dream about a life with Chad Michael Murray, except it's the Chad Michael Murray from A Cinderella Story, and you're getting married in Hillary Duff's iconic dress—mask and all.
Next, you play Hand in My Pocket by Alanis Morissette. You love this song because all your BFFs are into Ironic, so to be ironic, Hand in My Pocket is your jam. Every time you watch the opening credits of Dawsons Creek, you tell whoever is around that the producers originally wanted Alanis’ song instead of I Don’t Want To Wait, but the show couldn't get the rights. If anyone challenges you on this, you immediately discount them. They clearly don't read Seventeen Magazine.
After Alanis, you move on to Once More with Feeling from the Buffy The Vampire Slayer musical episode. You aren't entirely sure why all your favorite shows have undergone a musical phase, but you are into it. However, you get secondhand embarrassment from Buffy’s dance solo in Something to Sing About so this song is your fave. Also, Anya is iconic. You break out into “bunnies” at the sight of anything white or fluffy.
Finally, you listen to On My Own (Les Miserables 10th Anniversary in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall) —another example of where the WB network may have gone astray in making their characters sing. Joey Potter is still your girl! You loved her vulnerability and emotion during the Miss Windjammer pageant, but no one will ever compare to Lea Salonga as Eponine. She is the queen.
If this playlist took you on a nostalgic trip, I highly suggest you check out my new book, PRIME TIME ROMANCE, which will be available on September 3rd.
Is love on the small screen better than the real thing?
A young divorcee finds herself in the ideal world of her favorite 2000s teen soap in this second-chance, whimsical romantic comedy from the author of This Spells Love.
Newly divorced on the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Brynn is sick of heartbreak. She thought she had found her happy ending, but now she’s living with a roommate, Josh, to afford her mortgage, and she’s trying to adjust to her new single life. At least she’s got Carson’s Cove to binge, her beloved 2000s teenage soap. The show ended unexpectantly on a cliffhanger after five seasons, and the two main characters, Sloan and Spencer, never got to declare their love for each other. The show is still perfect in Brynn’s eyes; despite all the drama that goes down, things always have a way of working out in Carson’s Cove . . . unlike her own life.
So when a birthday cake surprisingly shows up on her and Josh’s doorstep, Brynn makes a wish for the one thing she’s always wanted (but has failed to achieve herself): a happily-ever-after.
The next morning, she doesn’t wake up in her apartment. She’s in Carson’s Cove . . . and Josh is there too. Everyone seems to know them, except they’re not Brynn and Josh; they’re Sloan, the sweetheart of Carson’s Cove, and Fletch, the town’s bad boy. And to get home, they have to make Brynn’s wish come true by ensuring Sloan and Spencer, the hometown heartthrob, end up together at last. But as they spend more time together, Brynn and Josh realize that Carson’s Cove might not be as perfect as seen on television . . . especially when they start developing feelings for each other in a plot twist no one has expected. Will they stick to the script, or will real love change the story forever?
Romance | Women's Fiction Contemporary | Women's Fiction Friendship [Dial Press, On Sale: September 3, 2024, Trade Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780593596555 / eISBN: 9780593596562]
Kate Robb dated a lot of duds in her twenties (amongst a few gems) all providing excellent fodder to write weird and wild romantic comedies. She lives just outside of Toronto, Canada where she spends her free time pretending she’s not a hockey mom while whispering “hustle” under her breath from the bleachers, a Pinot Grigio concealed in her YETI mug. She hates owls, the word “whilst” and wearing shorts and aspires to one day be able to wear four-inch heels again.
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